Kitkat: milktea

The first time I saw “milk tea” here, I was totally appalled. Iced tea + milk? Sacrilege! Sure, I drank earl gray with cream all the time, but iced tea and milk just seemed to be too… crazy. Today I saw “chocolate milk tea” – an iced beverage at the 7-11. And of course, there’s the Royal Milk Tea kitkats…

“Milk tea” is a common flavour for lots of things, actually. It’s weird and it’s weird that we don’t do it in the states. I mean, It’s a perfectly normal flavour once you try it, it just makes me cringe a little at first. hehe. I’d guess it didn’t test well with focus groups.

Kitkat – Flan

The chocolate-to-wafer ratio is way off in the big size of kitkat. Regardless, I was still excited to find that flan was back on the market.

Last year I found big bags of the miniature sized flan that I brought home and shared in the office. We also found kitkat icecream bars in this flavour last year! I think I bought about 12 of them – they were so good. Because of that particular find, I’m obsessed with looking in the ice cream case every time we go into a convenience store. I think it’s a habit that will slowly drive Jon crazy.

Semi-Sweet Chocolate

Oh!  I haven’t given you a kitkat in a while.

Along with last year’s Yuzu & the Sakura Coffee from last month, this one is quickly becoming my favourite.  Semi-sweet chocolate – it’s… perfect and lovely.

…okay. I *think* it’s semi-sweet chocolate. I could be wrong because I can’t read the label. but it tastes a lot like chocolate, just a little bitter, and it has a stream of brown stuff on the cover of the box. …. which could only be …. chocolate. Does anyone watch “How I Met Your Mother”?

Produce & Mango Kitkats

One of the things you may find strange about Japan is the value the place on perfection. Specifically, perfection in produce. Check out the prices of some of these (really common) things below:

$47 for nine [perfect] strawberries:

$42 for 1 [perfect] cantaloupe. You’d be surprised at how ubiquitous this is – even the corner market has a perfect melon. In fact, this is so popular that I stopped calling it “cantaloupe” and started calling it “perfect melon”.

What’s that? One ear of corn for $6.50? That one doesn’t even look perfect! It’s got lumps in the kernels!

Now I don’t want you to get the wrong idea – dinner is not a million dollars. It’s just that it seems very possible that you could very easily spend $300 on a fruit salad.

Personally, I’d rather spend my $2 on a Mango Soup flavoured kitkat. It was tasty!

Jon had a point the other day; they seem to decide a society what the best of something is, and then only sell that. Bakeries? French. Wine? French. Ethnic food? “Italian”. Dogs? Pocket-sized. (Although that last one may have more to do with the size of their apartments than actual preference!). It’s interesting, though not surprising from an area that also values excellence in school and morals.

Red bean. The un-chocolate.

Thomas, Andreas… this one’s for you and your crazy hawaiiannesses.

Red bean kitkat is better than red bean soup kitkat. It at least tastes really true to what it’s supposed to be.
If anything was going to be the national dessert flavour, it might just be azuki.

Meh. I mean, it’s fine. I kind of like it, but I’d still rather have my brown-desserts be chocolate. Why can’t I move to a place where the national dessert is caramel? Like Argentina!! Yes – Okay. It’s settled. We will build a naval base in Argentina, station an aircraft carrier there, jon will get transferred, and then i will eat dulce de leche candy until i puke.