All things Japanese & Candy
Amanda is a guest blogger. She lives in Seattle. Her hobbies include eating junk food (foreign and domestic), Bikram yoga, and making crafty things with yarn and fabric. She lived in Japan for 2 years.
Pretz is not a Japanese candy. Pretz is Pocky’s evil savory cousin. Ok, so it’s not evil except that like Pocky, [...]
Whoever thought that cheese and chocolate went well together? Apparently Glico did, actually. You may remember that I’m a huge fan of the difficult-to-find Mont Blanc Dessert Pocky, and was reasonably happy with the Double Chocolate, so I of course picked up the new Chocolat Fromage [チョコラフロマージュ] Pocky when I saw it in my local [...]
The newest craze in combini-land these days seems to be something called ‘Sparkling.’ You can get Sparkling Tea, Apple Sparkling, and now even Sparkling Strawberry Kit Kat. I haven’t quite figured out what it means, although there always seems to be an over-exuberance of bubbles, so the derivation may be similar to that of sparkling wine. Across [...]
