Some Japanese Snacks and Candy and More 2016

Just sharing some photos about Japanese snacks this time.  One of the great things about all things Japanese is the packaging is very pretty and well thought out, even if there is too much of it sometimes.  I do like the fact that their snacks are usually packaged in individual portions or in small batches inside the box most of the time so everything doesn't go stale if you don't polish it off in one sitting.

Not Japanese, but I thought this was cool with banana flavours for Minions.

These weren't Japanese either, but tic tacs that look like Minions is genius!

Strawberries are a very Japanese thing and Meltykiss chocolates are awesomely good.  They are the masters of the strawberry, even if it is an imported cultivar.  Strawberries are very important for Valentine's Day over there and they are delicious with intense and sweet berry flavour unlike what you get in the supermarket here.  Their strawberries are unique local varieties and are carefully grown and harvested.  They aren't cheap, but they taste great.

Japanese strawberries in the supermarket in Japan.  Some of those packages of berries are $14 for 8 deluxe berries.

Who doesn't like Pocky chocolate cream.  These midi sticks are shorter and thicker than the regular Pocky.

This Strawberry Pocky on chocolate biscuit sticks was really good.  They are like $5 a box here (a little more than double what they cost in Japan), but they are at your fingertips.

Veggie chips.

Different types of sweet cakes that go with tea.  You have red bean paste fillings and more.

All kinds of hard candies.  The one on the left has flavours from various Japanese sodas or juice.

More hard candies.  The Super Soda ones have a very tart coating on the outside.  The lemon type are super sour.

This a green tea hard candy that comes in five flavours.  Green tea soda, green tea and molasses, green tea and salt, green tea (matcha), and green tea and ponzu.  All very nice variants on just matcha flavour.

One of my favourite hard candies with ramune and fruit flavours.  Ramune is a Japanese lemon flavour that isn't lemon, it is ramune.  Unique and I haven't met anyone yet that doesn't like it.  I like how the bag is in the shape of a bottle of ramune soda which is where the flavouring first appeared.

More tasty chocolates filled with fruit cream.  I haven't seen these before here or in Japan.  Yummers.

You're probably off to the Asian supermarket after this.  You'll find tons of snacks at a supermarket like T & T.  Good luck!