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1 year ago
Soy Sauce
Another guest post! Whoo! I’m on a roll. This one is by Potpot. Potpot is a fellow blogger who likes blogging about his life and makes up a lot of short funny stories. Sad thing that most of his blogs are in Filipino. But hey if you can understand Filipino and love stories, take a peek. You’ll definitely enjoy as I’ve enjoyed this entry.
Thank you Meema for making me a guest in your kit kat blog… even though my English knowledge is likely compared to a ten year old.. I will try my best to communicate like an 11 year old.. so here goes…
When I hear the word kit kat, a chocolate flavored wafer bar comes into mind.. I salivate every time I mutter this word.. But when I was introduced to the different flavors of kit kat here in Japan.. My world collapsed..
Meema showed me one of her recent discoveries.. a “Soy Sauce Flavored kit kat” WTF?!?!!
soy sauce flavored kit kat.. HUWAT?!!?!I had goose bumps… the fact that you crossed a salty element with a sweet kit kat send chills up my spine…
But I have no chance of escape… she tied me up and forced me to eat the kit kat..
After opening the foil, you can distinguish the smell of the soy sauce… but with the first bite… the taste of the soy sauce blend nicely with the white chocolate bar…
Maybe I was a little intimidated because of the name… but it was really tasty and delicious… I should have slipped some packets of kit kat when I left Meema’s house.. It was divine, and maybe I can get used to tasting different kinds of kit kats…
Hmmmm….
By the way, Potpot’s planning to make a Pringles flavors blog soon. I’ll post about it as soon as it’s up. ^^
Thanks Pot! Love ya buddy!
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1 year ago
Tiramisu and Green Tea Tiramisu
Woot! My first ever guest post (well, actually a repost but I’m still happy). So here a friend talks about her adventures with 2 Kit Kat flavors, both released Feb 2, 2009.
I will put English terms beside the Filipino ones don’t worry.
Heehee. I spied these new Kit Kat flavors in the local 7-11 early this week. I so love the quirky seasonal flavors that Kit Kat always comes up with. Sayang[What a pity] i missed their soy-sauce flavored one. ;-) The ones featured above are maccha tiramisu and tiramisu. They come in singles —- probably because a lot of people are on a diet. Hehehe. And are a very affordable 82yen.
Homaygath. Winner sila pareho![They are both winners!] The tiramisu undertones are very evident in both bars. The maccha one is a bit too sweet, but still packs a strong maccha (green tea) punch. ;-) Is love!
- posted April 3, 2009
Gandarynako is a Filipina friend also staying in Japan. She blogs about a lot of things but mostly anything that she thinks makes Japan beautiful and special from a Filipino’s point of view. What I love about her is she still sees the beauty even in the smallest things here in Japan as such these new Kit Kat flavors.
Like some of you, I would have preferred the two flavors to be separate but this isn’t my post. But this isn’t my post and she delivered it well so I have no complaints. Thanks Gandarynako!
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1 year ago
Japanese Red Bean Soup
Oshiruko (お汁粉) or just shiruko is a traditional Japanese dessert from boiled azuki beans with rice flour dumplings. It’s one of the better traditional desserts I’ve tasted in Japan among its huge choices of azuki bean desserts. I really have no idea what’s with these azuki beans and Japanese (and Chinese… and Koreans). They’re like all over the place. Having a oshiruko flavored Kit Kat is bound to happen. I’m more surprised why they haven’t made it a permanent flavor… yet. Read more about it here.
Did I say I like oshiruko’s? Well with Kit Kat, I love love love this flavor. I loved it so much I actually bought another Kit Kat pack so I could eat it again (and I rarely do that, really). I could really taste the azuki beans and a bit of burned rice. And, it wasn’t too sweet at all. Just the right azuki bean sweetness.
This is translated from the Kit Kat Japanese website:
Real azuki bean flavor is produced by using azuki bean powder from Imuraya Confectionery. Glutinous rice puff/flour is kneaded in the chocolate and scent of burnt rice cake can be smelled to bring the experience of tasting oshiruko.
Imuraya Confectionery is one of the best providers of azuki beans.
They did a lot of effort on this one, eh. Well, I definitely will await the next coming of this flavor.
How about you? Any Kit Kat’s lately? Tell me if you’d like to share your experience. ^^
Photo from Fried Toast’s Kit Kat’s photo collection
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1 year ago
Pudding Sauce Flavor
Must be a sign that Kit Kat’s flavor committee was actually running out of ideas.
Released a year ago around March 2008 (yep custard pudding season, same with the previous entry). Fried Toast said that it tastes very sweet. Then again, most Kit Kat’s do. Even the original Kit Kat can be too sweet for some people. Only this one’s flavored after a flavor that’s mostly made from pure sugar. Heh.
The Japanese characters actually mean tailoring so I assumed they mean dressing, toppings or sauce. Message me if I’m wrong.
Photo from Fried Toast’s Kit Kat collection
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1 year ago
Custard Pudding Flavor
Custard pudding flavored anything is springing up everywhere here like daisies in spring because it’s spring (Huwat?). Though I’m not really sure why pudding’s are connected with spring. They’re just here.
I don’t know how pudding tastes in other countries but here in Japan, it has like almost no taste. It’s my first time to eat pudding so I can’t really say if it’s just a Japanese pudding thing or is universal. I have tasted a flan though and it’s way way way different from Japanese custard pudding.
This Kit Kat actually got the custard pudding-ness of custard pudding, so it’s just meh for me. But then again, I don’t feel so much for custard pudding.
PS. There’s also a 14-piece pack for this flavor. View it here.
Photo taken by Me
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1 year ago
Uji Green Tea
Uji green tea is one of the finer green teas here in Japan. But as foreigner who’s not all for tea, I probably couldn’t tell the difference or even bother to learn extensively the refinement of green tea.
Could be expensive too. You know, buying refined green tea, just for trying it out. Yeeep. (I might be sticking to cheap dirt green tea. The one they gave out freely when entertaining costumers in stores. LOL!)
As for the flavor, the kit kat was actually too sweet for an authentic green tea feel. Yeah, there was a hint of green tea there somewhere but for green tea lovers, it’s too sweet.
Then again, it might work. Green tea is taken with some sort of sweets (turns out I do know a thing or two about green tea), so this could work as a package bundle. Green tea ceremony in every bite. ^_^
Photo from Fried Toast’s Kit Kat’s photo collection
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1 year ago
Nasu-Kogen Milk White
Kit kat with white chocolate coat made from cows of Nasu-Kogen. Well not from cows… you know, milk! Milk from Nasu-Kogen cows.
Nasu-Kogen is a place in Tochigi-ken. It’s known for the Nasu-Kogen beer like the Nasu-Kogen Nine-Tailed Fox (is that you Naruto?), so it took me awhile if milk from Nasu-Kogen is popular. I get several search page results of beer, beer, beer. LOL!
I finally found this site. One of the Nasu-Kogen’s attraction is that you could milk a cow and probably drink the milk. Or you can just buy and drink the fresh milk. I haven’t been there so I’ll take the website’s word of it being delicious.
I wonder if the Kit Kat factory actually kept live cows to get fresh milk. Hehehe.
Sorry, I haven’t tried this so I can’t say how this tastes like. If anyone knows, send me a message. (^_^)
Photo from Fried Toast’s Kit Kat’s photo collection
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1 year ago
University Potato
I know right? I mean, what the heck is a University Potato? (Yup it’s actually what’s written in the kit kat website). So I looked it up.
Daigaku Imo, which means University Potato, are candies sweet potatoes, a sweet and slightly savory snack that is often served at university festivals in Tokyo.
It’s actually made from sweet potato. I can’t say if it tasted like sweet potato. Tastes sweet though. But don’t they all?
The university potato is actually one of the main treats of fall. Probably why this kit kat went out last December.
Photo from Fried Toast’s Kit Kat’s photo collection
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