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By: Jonathan Nelson

Jonathan Nelson — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:49:46 +0000

umm is there a place online that you can buy the green tea kit kats? i want one

By: Krupo

Krupo — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:37:58 +0000

At a Hong Kong 7/11 I managed to pick up Ginger Ale flavour Kit Kat imported from Japan. It was a white coloured chocolate, FYI.

By: dragonmamma/naomi

dragonmamma/naomi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:04:53 +0000

Temma, yes, that’s it! I can’t believe it; the box still looks exactly the same after all these years.

By: gnateye

gnateye — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:11:22 +0000

Pocky are the best! doesn’t matter what flovor they rock!

and the green tea kit kats are amazing, they are really hard to find no tho…

and the classic first japanese candy for most americans is the ol Botan rice candy with edible wrapper, soooo good.

we’ve also found some good graham cracker and chocolate mushroom shaped candies that are great as well

By: knitrat

knitrat — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:37:51 +0000

I was once in polite company in South Korea and accepted a candy, which the nice lady told me was cheese flavor just as it hit my tongue. oh the horror. there was no spitting it out right in front of her.

By: bc

bc — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:30:21 +0000

I’ve tried the Green Tea Kit Kats; they’re way tasty. And I’ll definitely look for Aha! Brain on the next trip.

By: J

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:26:45 +0000

@Temma I think what she’s referring to are the jelly fruit-cubes that are wrapped in edible rice paper, and not Botan rice candy.

I’m supportive of people writing about how interesting Japanese culture is, but I wish people didn’t make assumptions like in this article. Japan, like anywhere else, when you think “candy”, you think sweet. Not savory.

Things like the “squid candy” or “scallop candy” are considered snacks, because they’re not candy. Corn/soysauce flavor candy is considered a novelty item. US has things like this, too.

Chocolate gum is not much different from all the crazy sweet, non-minty flavors in the West. Also, why is “lemon milk” so weird? Have you never had lemon cake or keylime pie?

In my opinion, US has far more strange candies than Japan does. And a lot of them are mainstream, too. With Japan, a lot of articles like this write about novelties as if they’re normal….

By: Temma

Temma — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:36:26 +0000

I think that these are the candies you had as a kid, or something similar: Botan Rice Candy. They're pretty fun to eat!

By: dragonmamma/naomi

dragonmamma/naomi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:37 +0000

Those new flavors of Kit-Kats actually sound good to me! I definitely want to give those a try.

When I was a little kid (I’m 51 now) our neighborhood ice-cream truck used to sell little boxes of Japanese candy. They were jelly-like cubes wrapped in an edible rice-paper that dissolved on your tongue when you sucked on it.