{"title":"Japanese Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eLangue de chat sandwiches with cream between them, chocolate set on a salted wholemeal base, butter shortbreads and sablés: boxed rather than bagged, sealed inside in twos and threes so the rest stay crisp. Also in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/chocolate\"\u003eJapanese Chocolate\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate","title":"Bourbon Alfort Mini Chocolate — Milk Chocolate on Wholemeal Biscuit, 12 Pieces (55g)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilk chocolate on a crisp, lightly salted wholemeal biscuit, twelve little pieces in a blue box. It's sweet, but the salt keeps it from tipping into sugary, and the closest thing you'll already know is a chocolate digestive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've not come across it before: in Japan this is an everyday supermarket chocolate, not a gift or a special-occasion one. It's properly popular: the big share-bag version was the single best-selling confectionery in the whole country for four months running in 2025, and it's mostly adults in their thirties and forties buying it. That's the range, not this box. Office drawers rather than lunchboxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eアルフォート, the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Milk chocolate over a wholemeal biscuit. Pay attention to the biscuit rather than the chocolate: it's lightly salted, and that's the bit Australians don't see coming.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: The biscuit snaps; the chocolate is soft at room temperature and firm when chilled. Getting that balance right is the whole trick, and there's a name for it in Japan, the golden ratio.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow much you'll eat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Twelve pieces sounds like several sittings. \"I'll just have a couple\" is famous last words with these: there's no resealable wrapper, because the box isn't built for one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft. That's normal for this chocolate, and it's a cosmetic problem rather than a taste one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. The same factory lines also run egg products. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you see 59 g on another Australian listing, that's the old pack. Bourbon dropped it to 55 g in early 2025 and left the barcode unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTake one box if you're trying it for the first time; more if you already know you like it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48155408204002,"sku":"SH-SNK-0001","price":6.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate-blue-box_897259a4-37e3-4ecd-8906-28600fcd8745.webp?v=1789258319"},{"product_id":"bourbon-mt-fuji-alfort","title":"Bourbon Mt Fuji Alfort — Milk Chocolate on Wholemeal Biscuit, 14 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilk chocolate on a crisp, lightly salted wholemeal biscuit, with a snow-capped Mount Fuji moulded into the top of every piece and the snow picked out in white chocolate. It tastes like an Alfort, because it is one, sweet chocolate against a wheaty, faintly salty biscuit, and the closest thing you already know is a chocolate digestive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Bourbon's souvenir edition rather than the everyday box. Alfort itself is one of Japan's biggest sellers, the 147 g share bag was the country's best-selling confectionery item for four months running to October 2025, but that is the supermarket bag; this fourteen-piece box is made for the souvenir counter rather than the snack aisle, which is why it isn't one you'd come across in a Japanese supermarket either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e富士山アルフォート, the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw over there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Milk chocolate over a wholemeal biscuit. Pay attention to the biscuit rather than the chocolate: it's lightly salted, and that's the part Australians don't see coming.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAll fourteen\u003c\/strong\u003e: Every piece carries the mountain, and the snow on the peak is white chocolate. The ordinary Alfort has no white chocolate on it at all.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWrapped one by one\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fourteen separate wrappers, each printed with the same mountain in metallic blue. In Japan this is a box you carry back to the office and hand round, and the wrapping is what makes that work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe pieces are bigger\u003c\/strong\u003e: Each one is about twice the weight of an Alfort Mini, so this is a fair bit more chocolate than the little blue box even before you count the extra two.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft. It tastes the same once it firms up, but the moulded peak is the first thing to go, and on this box the peak is rather the point.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've not met Alfort before: the chocolate is a slab set on top of the biscuit rather than a coating wrapped around it, which is why the moulding comes out so sharp. Does it taste different from a normal Alfort? Opinion is genuinely split, so the only difference we can state plainly is the one you can see: the white chocolate on the peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things worth knowing if you're comparing listings elsewhere. It is not a limited edition, whatever you may read. It's a standing regional line that goes through the souvenir channel rather than the supermarket. And descriptions of \"two designs, twelve mountains and four sailing ships\" belong to the older sixteen-piece box, which Bourbon no longer lists; this one is fourteen, all mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two other Alforts you're most likely to have met are different products again. \u003cstrong\u003eAlfort Mini\u003c\/strong\u003e is the little blue box of twelve small pieces: we sell that one too. The \u003cstrong\u003eregular Alfort\u003c\/strong\u003e is the full-size biscuit, sold in boxes of nine and in share bags. 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The closest thing you already know is a chocolate digestive, though the biscuit is coarser and crumbles more crisply than that suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've only met Alfort as the little blue box, this is the other one, and it isn't just bigger. Bourbon's own ingredient panels put wheat flour first here and sugar first on the Mini, and this recipe carries roughly twice the salt per gram in pieces more than twice the size. Alfort is a genuine staple in Japan: the big share bag was the country's best-selling confectionery item for five months running to November 2025. That's the range, not this bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eアルフォート, the name on the bag, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Milk chocolate over a wholemeal biscuit, and it's the biscuit that surprises people. This is the properly salted recipe, and the salt is what stops nine of them tasting like nine chocolates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: A coarse, short biscuit that crumbles crisply, under a slab of chocolate thicker than you'd expect for the size of the piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow many you get\u003c\/strong\u003e: Nine, individually wrapped. It used to be ten: Bourbon cut the count in October 2024, and this pack is that change. The biscuit itself didn't shrink. Bourbon cut the count, not the piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft. The bag's own storage line is 28 °C, and an Australian summer beats that indoors. It's a cosmetic problem rather than a taste one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things people get wrong before they buy. The chocolate is a moulded slab pressed onto the top of the biscuit, not a coating wrapped around it. And this is not the mini box, nine pieces at about 10 g each, not twelve at four and a half.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne bag is nine pieces: a few afternoons, or one afternoon if you're not careful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261574131938,"sku":"SH-SNK-0014","price":6.58,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/bourbon-alfort-9-pieces-blue-bag.webp?v=1787885653"},{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-vanilla-cream","title":"Mister Ito Languly Vanilla Cream Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo crisp biscuits with a sweet vanilla cream between them, twelve to a box, in four sealed packs of three. The biscuit is a langue de chat, French for \"cat's tongue\", which is the flat oval biscuit this one is built from. If you'd rather have a plain biscuit with your coffee than another chocolate one, this is that biscuit, and it's an everyday Japanese supermarket sweet rather than a gift-shop one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnow one thing before it arrives: it is \u003cstrong\u003ethicker than the delicate French biscuit the name promises\u003c\/strong\u003e. That catches out anyone expecting something wispy, and it is also why one biscuit is genuinely filling rather than a mouthful of air. Ito Biscuits has been making the Languly line since 1979, and had sold 150 million units across the whole line by its fortieth anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー バニラクリーム: the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan. The brand reads \u003cem\u003erangurii\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Sweet, plainly so, and the biscuit carries more of the sweetness than the filling does. The cream tastes closer to white chocolate than to anything dairy. How sweet is a real matter of taste here: this sits at the sweeter end of a plain biscuit, not the restrained end.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fine-grained and short, with a crumble to it rather than a hard snap, and a browned rim around each biscuit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe bit Australians don't expect\u003c\/strong\u003e: There's no big bag. The twelve come as four sealed packs of three, so the rest stay crisp once you've opened one, and a pack survives a day in a bag without turning to crumbs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe cream is not dairy cream\u003c\/strong\u003e: It's a fat-based sandwich cream. It does contain milk solids.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat\u003c\/strong\u003e: The cream layer is thin. If a thick filling is what you're after, this isn't it: you are eating this for the biscuit, not for what's between it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt travels better than most biscuits: the sealed inner packs do the protecting, not the outer box. Heat is the thing to watch rather than breakage: a langue de chat goes soft in warmth and humidity, so keep it out of a hot car and off a sunny doorstep and it stays crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTake one box if you're trying it. The chocolate version of the same biscuit sits beside it on the shelf, and the two are worth reading side by side before you choose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mister Ito","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269688635618,"sku":"SH-SNK-0015","price":4.62,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/mister-ito-languly-vanilla-cream-box.webp?v=1787899418"},{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-chocolate-cream","title":"Mister Ito Languly Chocolate Cream Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo crisp biscuits with a cocoa cream between them, twelve to a box, in four sealed packs of three. The biscuit is a langue de chat, French for \"cat's tongue\", the flat oval biscuit this one is built from. It's an everyday Japanese supermarket sweet, and the thing to understand before you buy is that \u003cstrong\u003ethe biscuit leads and the chocolate accompanies\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat isn't a criticism, but it is the whole argument. The cream layer is thin and deliberately restrained, and people divide sharply over it. If you want a chocolate hit, buy chocolate. If you want a biscuit that happens to have cocoa in it, that is exactly what this is. Ito Biscuits has been making the Languly line since 1979, and had sold 150 million units across the whole line by its fortieth anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー チョコレートクリーム: the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan. The brand reads \u003cem\u003erangurii\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Sweet, but the sweetness sits in the biscuit rather than the filling. The cocoa cream is quiet and faintly bitter against it, steadying the biscuit rather than adding to it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fine-grained and short, with a crumble to it rather than a hard snap, and a browned rim around each biscuit. It's thicker than the delicate French biscuit the name promises.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat the filling actually is\u003c\/strong\u003e: In Japan it's labelled \u003cem\u003ejun-chocolate\u003c\/em\u003e, a defined lower grade: at least 15% cocoa solids where chocolate proper needs 35%, and made with vegetable fat rather than cocoa butter. It's a cocoa cream, and we'd rather say so than let the word \"chocolate\" do work it hasn't earned.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe bit Australians don't expect\u003c\/strong\u003e: There's no big bag. The twelve come as four sealed packs of three, so the rest stay crisp once you've opened one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat\u003c\/strong\u003e: It's a dry biscuit and it takes some moisture with it. Have a drink to hand; black coffee is the natural one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot to be confused with the same maker's Languly Premium Shocola, which is a richer, separate product: cocoa blended into the biscuit itself and a white chocolate cream. This is the standard one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn warm weather the cocoa cream can soften, so treat it as a summer consideration rather than a surprise: heat, not handling, is the risk here, because the sealed inner packs do the protecting rather than the outer box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTake one box if you're trying it. 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Look for the navy box with the teacup on it and the red seasonal flash in the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe tea is Assam, and it is forward.\u003c\/strong\u003e It goes into the cream as a tea extract rather than as leaf, and you get it the moment the pack opens.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA langue de chat, a thin, crisp, buttery biscuit\u003c\/strong\u003e: but a noticeably thicker one than the delicate French version the name comes from. It snaps rather than shatters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve biscuits, as four sealed packs of three\u003c\/strong\u003e: so it is four sittings rather than one, and the rest stay crisp once you have opened the first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest caveat: the tea can win.\u003c\/strong\u003e People who love this biscuit plain sometimes find the milk tea walks over it, and that is a fair description rather than a fault. It is a strongly flavoured biscuit and it is meant to be.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cream itself is a fat-based filling rather than dairy cream, though it does carry milk. It is the same biscuit as the vanilla and chocolate Languly: across the range only the cream changes. Ito Biscuits has been making the Languly line since 1979, and had sold 150 million units across the whole line by its fortieth anniversary — that record belongs to the line, and this is one of its seasonal editions rather than one of the two year-round flavours, so it comes and goes: the chocolate and vanilla are the ones that are always there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mister Ito","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290700689634,"sku":"SH-SNK-0035","price":4.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/mister-ito-languly-assam-milk-tea-box.webp?v=1788159084"},{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-uji-matcha","title":"Mister Ito Languly Uji Matcha Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, crisp biscuit with a matcha cream between two of them, twelve to a box. The honest version: the biscuit is the strong part here, thick, properly crisp, better than it needs to be, and the matcha is light. You taste a gentle green sweetness rather than a bracing bowl of tea. If you want a matcha biscuit you can eat three of in a row, this is it; if you want matcha that bites back, this is not the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー 宇治抹茶玉露入り. Look for the deep green box with the little paper tag and the red parasol on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is the reason to buy it.\u003c\/strong\u003e A langue de chat, a thin, crisp, buttery biscuit, but thicker than the delicate French version the name comes from, so it snaps rather than shatters. The browned rim on each one is deliberate, and the bakery treats it as the sign of a good bake.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReal tea is in the cream, and so is gyokuro\u003c\/strong\u003e: a shaded green tea, both as ingredients in their own right rather than flavourings. The maker adds the gyokuro deliberately as a background note, and almost nobody picks it out as a separate thing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe caveat, said plainly: the matcha is not strong.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is not a dark, bitter, ceremonial-grade hit, the cream tastes closer to a sweet white chocolate with green tea through it. As an easy-to-eat green-tea biscuit, it is a good one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe green is not all matcha.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gardenia and turmeric are on the ingredient list as colouring, alongside the tea. Worth knowing, since the colour is the first thing that sells it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve biscuits, as four sealed packs of three\u003c\/strong\u003e: so it is four sittings rather than one, the rest stay crisp once you have opened the first, and the box survives a bag without turning to crumbs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGyokuro is the shaded tea described above; you are not meant to taste it as a separate thing. Uji is the Kyoto tea district the maker names this cream after, no farm or grower is named behind it, so read it as the pack's own name for the flavour rather than an address. People divide sharply over how sweet the whole biscuit is, and every box tastes the same: some find it restrained and some find it a sweet biscuit with a green cream. It is the same biscuit as the vanilla and chocolate Languly: across the range only the cream changes. 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It is mild rather than rich, and it is not a very sweet biscuit, which is most of the reason a box disappears. Everyday supermarket confectionery in Japan, not a gift-tin product. Buy it if you want something small and mild to keep in a desk drawer or a bag; if you are after something rich or chocolatey, this is the wrong biscuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eビスコ: \u003cem\u003ebisuko\u003c\/em\u003e. The red box with the boy on the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA tang you won't be expecting.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cream tastes more like a yoghurt sweet than a custard cream: there is a real acidity behind the sweetness, and it is the first thing most people notice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCrisp and clean-melting, not dry.\u003c\/strong\u003e The biscuit snaps rather than crumbles and clears the mouth quickly. You won't need something to drink alongside it, which is not true of every biscuit this size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe cream is the reason the biscuit is a sandwich at all.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico's founder wanted a live yeast culture inside a biscuit, and the yeast he wanted died in the oven, so he built a sandwich and put it in the cream instead, which is never baked. Glico still puts the cultures in the cream today, so the shape is doing the same job ninety years on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt looks like a children's snack and isn't one.\u003c\/strong\u003e The boy has been on the box from the start, but this is what a Japanese adult keeps in a desk drawer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFifteen small biscuits in three sealed packs of five.\u003c\/strong\u003e They are small, and the three sachets are why the last five are as crisp as the first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest one: the sachets are stiff.\u003c\/strong\u003e They take a moment to tear, and a small child may not manage one on their own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ewheat\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have seen Bisco sold as a long-life emergency ration in a sealed tin, that is a different product from this one: a different pack, made to sit in a cupboard for years. This is the ordinary box. The front of the pack makes a good deal of the cultures in the cream; treat that as part of what Bisco is rather than as a reason to buy it, because we are not making any claim about what it does. And if you are buying it for a child, Glico's own guidance is from about one year old, with an adult watching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293743231202,"sku":"SH-SNK-0037","price":4.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-bisco-milk-cream-box.webp?v=1788164028"},{"product_id":"glico-bisco-strawberry","title":"Glico Bisco Strawberry Cream Biscuits — 15 Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pink box in Glico's Bisco range: a strawberry cream between two crisp biscuits made with some wholemeal flour. It tastes tart rather than sugary, closer to strawberry yoghurt than to a strawberry lolly. If you have met Japanese strawberry sweets before and found them sweet and one-note, this is the argument against that. Everyday supermarket confectionery in Japan, not a gift-tin product. Buy it if you like strawberry things that lean tart; if what you want is a sweet, creamy strawberry biscuit, this is the wrong one: the sourness comes first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eビスコ＜いちご＞, \u003cem\u003ebisuko ichigo\u003c\/em\u003e. The pink box, with the same boy on the front that Glico has been redrawing since 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTart, not sugary.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cream has real acidity and feels grainy on the tongue rather than smooth, as though the fruit were in there. \u003cstrong\u003eThe list carries both strawberry powder and a separate flavouring\u003c\/strong\u003e, so it is not purely one or the other; what people notice is the tartness. Some find the smell laid on too thick: an argument about aroma, not taste.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not sweeter than the plain box.\u003c\/strong\u003e Worth saying because it is the natural assumption about a strawberry cream. It reads gentle and not-too-sweet rather than sugary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThere is wholemeal in this biscuit, and none in the red box.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico builds this one on a milk biscuit made with some wholemeal flour and the original on a plain one, so the two differ below the cream as well as in it. It is not a wholemeal biscuit, the flour is mostly ordinary wheat, but it is a real difference between the two boxes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNothing in the ingredient list colours it.\u003c\/strong\u003e The pink is faint, and it comes from strawberry powder rather than a colouring, worth knowing if that is something you check.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFifteen small biscuits in three sealed packs of five.\u003c\/strong\u003e They are small, and the three sachets are why the last five are as crisp as the first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest one: the sachets are stiff.\u003c\/strong\u003e They take a moment to tear, and a small child may not manage one on their own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ewheat\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have seen Bisco sold as a long-life emergency ration in a sealed tin, that is a different product from this one: a different pack, made to sit in a cupboard for years. This is the ordinary box. The front of the pack makes a good deal of the cultures in the cream; treat that as part of what Bisco is rather than as a reason to buy it, because we are not making any claim about what it does. And if you are buying it for a child, Glico's own guidance is from about one year old, with an adult watching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293743591650,"sku":"SH-SNK-0038","price":4.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-bisco-strawberry-box.webp?v=1788164267"},{"product_id":"glico-bisco-fermented-butter","title":"Glico Bisco Fermented Butter Biscuits — 15 Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe yellow box, and the one where Glico changes the biscuit rather than the cream: a salted butter biscuit around a vanilla cream flecked with vanilla seed. What you notice is the salt against the sweetness. Everyday supermarket confectionery in Japan, not a gift-tin product. Buy it if a salted biscuit against a sweet cream sounds like your kind of thing; if you want a straightforwardly sweet cream biscuit, take the red box instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFermented butter: \u003cem\u003ehakkō batā\u003c\/em\u003e, is butter churned from cream that has been cultured first, the way most European butter is made and most Australian butter is not. It carries a faint tang and a deeper, nuttier smell than sweet-cream butter, which is why a Japanese biscuit maker reaches for it when it wants a biscuit to taste of something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eビスコ＜発酵バター＞: \u003cem\u003ebisuko hakkō batā\u003c\/em\u003e. The yellow box, with the same boy on the front that Glico has been redrawing since 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSweet-and-salty, and the salt is the reason to buy it.\u003c\/strong\u003e There is noticeably more salt in this biscuit than in the plain Bisco, and it plays against a sweet vanilla cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit changes, not just the cream.\u003c\/strong\u003e The red and pink boxes use a milk biscuit; this one is a butter biscuit, closer to a shortbread or a cracker in the hand, and firmer to bite.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVanilla bean, not just vanilla flavour.\u003c\/strong\u003e Vanilla bean seed is in the ingredient list — look for the flecks in the cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest one, and it matters here more than usual: you may not taste much butter.\u003c\/strong\u003e The butter reads faint, and it has read that way for a decade, not just since the recipe changed. Take \"fermented butter\" as the kind of biscuit it is, not as a promise about aroma.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf you knew this box before April 2025, expect a difference.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico reformulated the whole Bisco range then, and the change is argued over in Japan: worth knowing before you buy, particularly if you are re-buying something you remember.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFifteen small biscuits in three sealed packs of five.\u003c\/strong\u003e They are small, and the three sachets are why the last five are as crisp as the first. The sachets are stiff to tear, and a small child may not manage one alone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ewheat\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have seen Bisco sold as a long-life emergency ration in a sealed tin, that is a different product from this one: a different pack, made to sit in a cupboard for years. This is the ordinary box. The front of the pack makes a good deal of the cultures in the cream; treat that as part of what Bisco is rather than as a reason to buy it, because we are not making any claim about what it does. This is not a premium line in Japan and is not priced as one: \"grown-up Bisco\" is about the salt, not the shelf. And if you are buying it for a child, Glico's own guidance is from about one year old, with an adult watching. A whole biscuit is a big mouthful at three, so break it up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293743952098,"sku":"SH-SNK-0039","price":4.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-bisco-fermented-butter-box.webp?v=1788164491"},{"product_id":"meiji-kinoko-no-yama","title":"Meiji Kinoko no Yama — Japanese Mushroom Chocolate, 66g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA crisp little cracker stem with a chocolate cap, shaped like a mushroom. The cap is two chocolates, one cocoa-forward, one milkier, and the stem is a dry, lightly salted cracker, so the chocolate does the sweetness and the stem does the crunch. Buy it if you want chocolate with a crisp, dry bite; if you want a soft cookie under your chocolate, this is the wrong box, its rival Takenoko no Sato is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: きのこの山, \"Kinoko no Yama\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt has a famous rival, Takenoko no Sato, the bamboo-shoot cookie. Japan has voted on the pair twice, and the mushroom took the last round.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe stem is a baked cracker: lighter and drier than a biscuit, with a little salt in it. That contrast with the chocolate is the whole idea.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe box is 66 g. If you remember a bigger one, you're right. Meiji cut it from 74 g in 2025.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChocolate travels badly in an Australian summer: the caps can arrive soft. Keep it under 28 °C, and chill the sealed box until a cap snaps rather than bends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: milk, wheat and soy. There is no egg in this recipe. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Meiji","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48307130564834,"sku":"SH-SNK-0046","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/meiji-kinoko-no-yama-box-front.webp?v=1788501247"},{"product_id":"meiji-takenoko-no-sato","title":"Meiji Takenoko no Sato Chocolate Cookie Snack — 63g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA crumbly little cookie wrapped in two chocolates, a cocoa-forward layer and a milkier one, shaped like a bamboo shoot. It's the cookie half of Japan's most famous snack pair: it crumbles softly where its mushroom rival's cracker snaps. Buy it if you want a proper cookie under your chocolate; if you're after a crisp, drier bite, or you need to avoid egg and nuts, this is the wrong box, and Kinoko no Yama is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: たけのこの里, \"Takenoko no Sato\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeiji has run three national elections asking Japan to pick between this and its mushroom sibling. This one won two of them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou buy this one for the cookie, crumbly and buttery-tasting, with the chocolate wrapped right around it rather than sitting on top.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe box is 63 g. If you remember a bigger one, you're right. Meiji cut it from 70 g in 2025.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn an Australian summer it travels soft. Keep it under 28 °C, and a spell in the fridge brings it back: the chocolate firms up and the crumbly cookie reads sharper against it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: egg, milk and wheat, plus almond, soy and macadamia: there is almond paste in the cookie. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Meiji","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48307132137698,"sku":"SH-SNK-0047","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/meiji-takenoko-no-sato-box-front.webp?v=1788506037"},{"product_id":"meiji-takenoko-no-sato-strawberry","title":"Meiji Takenoko no Sato Strawberry \u0026 Chocolat — 61g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe strawberry version of Japan's bamboo-shoot cookie: the same crumbly Takenoko no Sato cookie under a two-layer coat of sweet-tart strawberry chocolate and a mellower chocolate. The strawberry is bright and a little sharp, not lolly-sweet; there's real strawberry powder in the recipe. Buy it if you like strawberry chocolate; if you'd rather have the plain chocolate original, this is the wrong box. Takenoko no Sato is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: たけのこの里いちご＆ショコラ — \"ichigo\" is strawberry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you know Meiji's Apollo, the little strawberry-and-milk-chocolate cones, this is that flavour idea wearing a cookie. We stock Apollo too.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA recurring flavour, not a permanent one: it has come and gone since 2020 and is in an active run now. If you like it, don't assume it'll be here next season.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe sharp edge is deliberate: there's a food acid in the recipe (an acidulant), so it finishes tart rather than sugary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe cookie underneath is the same crumbly one as the plain box, and it stays crisp under the double coat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe box is 61 g, a touch smaller than the plain box's 63 g.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: egg, milk and wheat, plus almond, soy and macadamia: the same six as the plain Takenoko no Sato, with almond paste in the cookie. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo boxes are easy to confuse: Meiji also sells a \u003cem\u003ekinoko\u003c\/em\u003e (mushroom) strawberry version, a different product on a cracker stem. This is the bamboo-shoot cookie one. Like the whole family it travels soft in an Australian summer; keep it below 28 °C and out of hot cars and sunny parcel boxes, and some fridge time firms it back up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meiji","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48307133219042,"sku":"SH-SNK-0048","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/meiji-takenoko-ichigo-box-front.webp?v=1788512301"},{"product_id":"lotte-koalas-march-chocolate","title":"Lotte Koala's March Chocolate Filled Biscuits — 48g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hollow little biscuit shaped like a koala, with chocolate sealed inside it. The shell is crisp, and because the chocolate sits inside rather than on top, it stays off your fingers. Buy it if you want a small sweet to share or hand to a child; if you are after a proper chocolate biscuit, this is the wrong one, the chocolate is a centre, not a thick layer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: コアラのマーチ, \u003cem\u003ekoala no maachi\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Koala's March\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA shell baked hollow, with the chocolate injected into it afterwards, which is why the chocolate is sealed inside rather than coating the outside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEach biscuit carries a printed koala, drawn from hundreds of designs: twelve when it launched in 1984, five hundred in the current run.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHunting for the rare designs was not a marketing idea. Shoppers in the 1980s named the ones they thought were rare themselves — the eyebrow koala, the nosebleed koala — and Lotte adopted the game afterwards.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a small box, and it goes quickly. If more than two of you are sharing, get two.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chocolate inside is set, not runny. It is sealed inside the biscuit, so when it softens it stays off your hands and out of your bag, which is why this travels where a chocolate-coated stick does not, though it is not heatproof. And this is the 48g box sold in Japan: the Koala's March on Australian supermarket shelves is a different pack in a different size, made for a different market.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lotte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48323754066146,"sku":"SH-SNK-0066","price":5.12,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/lotte-koalas-march-chocolate-48g-box-front.webp?v=1789352979"},{"product_id":"ybc-picola-chocolate","title":"YBC Picola Chocolate Cream Filled Wafer Rolls — 10 Sticks","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, hollow biscuit roll with chocolate cream on the inside instead of a coating on the outside. It shatters when you bite it, and the chocolate is mild rather than rich. Buy it if you want a light, crisp biscuit that happens to be chocolate; if you want a strong chocolate hit, this is the wrong stick. Pocky carries its chocolate on the outside, where you taste it first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: ピコラ チョコレート (pi-ko-ra).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe biscuit wall is thin enough to shatter rather than snap, and it crumbles as you eat it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a lining, not a filled centre: a thin layer of cream, so this is a biscuit first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen sticks, in two sealed bags of five, open one and the other keeps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you knew Picola in Japan years ago, the pack is smaller now, the bags went from six sticks each to five, so twelve became ten.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou will see these sold as wafer rolls, cookie sticks, crepe cookies or even \"egg rolls\": that last one is a translation quirk, not the savoury Chinese-American roll. Whatever a seller calls it, it is a sweet biscuit. Toppo and Pocky are two other Japanese biscuit sticks sold here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yamazaki Biscuits","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48330214113506,"sku":"SH-SNK-0070","price":4.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/ybc-picola-chocolate-box-front.webp?v=1789353238"},{"product_id":"ybc-picola-custard","title":"YBC Picola Custard Cream Filled Wafer Rolls — 10 Sticks","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe same hollow biscuit roll as the chocolate Picola, with custard cream lining the inside instead. It is sweet and mild, and how much custard you actually taste is disputed: some people get a clear egg-custard flavour, others taste something closer to white chocolate. Buy it if you like a light, crisp biscuit and a soft sweet cream; if you want a flavour that announces itself, this is the wrong one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: ピコラ カスタード (pi-ko-ra).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe biscuit wall is thin enough to shatter rather than snap, and it crumbles as you eat it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCustard is the line's most recent addition, and the maker positions it as a standing flavour rather than a seasonal one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot pouring custard: it is a thin sweet cream, and a lining rather than a filled centre. This is a biscuit first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen sticks, in two sealed bags of five, open one and the other keeps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou will see these sold as wafer rolls, cookie sticks, crepe cookies or even \"egg rolls\": that last one is a translation quirk, not the savoury Chinese-American roll.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yamazaki Biscuits","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48330214539490,"sku":"SH-SNK-0069","price":4.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/ybc-picola-custard-box-front.webp?v=1789353401"},{"product_id":"couque-dasses-chocolate","title":"Sanritsu Couque D'asses Chocolate Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, crisp butter biscuit with a layer of chocolate cream between two halves, twelve of them, each in its own wrapper. It snaps when you bite it, and the chocolate is a thin, mild layer rather than a rich filling. Buy it if you want something light to have with coffee; if you want a proper chocolate hit, this is the wrong biscuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003eクックダッセ チョコレート\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThin and crisp: it snaps between the teeth, then goes powdery as it breaks up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe chocolate is a thin layer rather than a filling. It is more sweet than cocoa-rich, and sugar sits at the top of the cream's ingredient list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEat it cold if you can. It keeps fine in the cupboard, but the colder the biscuit is, the harder it snaps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA mild, everyday chocolate rather than a rich one. The flavour is light and doesn't hang around after you swallow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve pieces, wrapped one at a time, so the rest stay crisp once you've opened one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are brittle, so expect a cracked one or two in the box. Made by Sanritsu, in Shizuoka. A Korean biscuit sells under an almost identical name and it is a different product; ours is the box printed 三立製菓, Sanritsu's name in Japanese, so that is the mark to match if you shop around.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanritsu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48331064017122,"sku":"SH-SNK-0073","price":5.61,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/sanritsu-couque-dasses-chocolate-pack.webp?v=1789354194"},{"product_id":"couque-dasses-white-chocolate","title":"Sanritsu Couque D'asses White Chocolate — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, crisp butter biscuit with white chocolate cream between two halves, twelve of them, each in its own wrapper. The biscuit is the good part: it snaps. The cream is sweet and spread thin. Buy it if you like white chocolate and want something light with coffee; if you want a thick, creamy filling, this is the wrong biscuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003eクックダッセ ホワイトチョコ\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThin and crisp, with a denser crunch than something this thin looks like it should have.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe white chocolate is spread thin rather than layered in. This is a biscuit with cream on it, not a cream biscuit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe cream is sweet rather than restrained. Buy it expecting sweet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf you know Shiroi Koibito, the Hokkaido white-chocolate biscuit sold in gift boxes, this is the same idea without the gift box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEat it cold if you can. It keeps fine in the cupboard, but the colder the biscuit, the harder it snaps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve pieces, wrapped one at a time, the rest stay crisp once you've opened one, and it is an easy box to hand round at work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are brittle, so expect a cracked one or two in the box. Made by Sanritsu, in Shizuoka. A Korean biscuit sells under an almost identical name and it is a different product; ours is the box printed 三立製菓, Sanritsu's name in Japanese, so that is the mark to match if you shop around.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanritsu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48331066409186,"sku":"SH-SNK-0074","price":5.61,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/sanritsu-couque-dasses-white-chocolate-pack.webp?v=1789354381"},{"product_id":"couque-dasses-matcha-cream","title":"Sanritsu Couque D'asses Matcha Cream Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, crisp butter biscuit with matcha cream between two halves, twelve of them, each in its own wrapper. The matcha is a flavour in a sweet cream rather than the main event: in the cream's own ingredient list it is the fifth of seven things, behind the oil, the sugar and two kinds of milk solids. Buy it if you want a light green-tea biscuit with coffee or tea; if you want the bitter, grassy hit of a proper matcha sweet, this is the wrong biscuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003eクックダッセ 抹茶クリーム\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThin and crisp. It snaps when you bite it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is matcha in the biscuit as well as in the cream, not only in the filling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe matcha is stone-milled and from Uji, the tea district south of Kyoto. Which part of the biscuit that tea went into is not stated anywhere.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe green comes from the tea: there is no colouring in the ingredients. There is added flavouring in it though, listed at the end, so the smell is not all the tea either.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is sweet, and mildly flavoured. This is a biscuit that tastes of matcha, not a matcha sweet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEat it cold if you can. It keeps fine in the cupboard, but the colder the biscuit, the harder it snaps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are brittle, and the pieces can crumble as you open a wrapper, so expect a cracked one or two. This flavour is new, Sanritsu started making it in February 2026, and an older version called 抹茶チョコ is still on shelves in Japan under a different barcode, so reviews you find online may not be of this one. Made by Sanritsu, in Shizuoka. A Korean biscuit sells under an almost identical name and it is a different product; ours is the box printed 三立製菓, Sanritsu's name in Japanese, so that is the mark to match if you shop around.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanritsu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48331068702946,"sku":"SH-SNK-0075","price":5.61,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/sanritsu-couque-dasses-matcha-cream-pack.webp?v=1789354606"},{"product_id":"ybc-picola-strawberry","title":"YBC Picola Strawberry Cream Filled Wafer Rolls — 10 Sticks","description":"\u003cp\u003eA biscuit stick baked thin and rolled into a hollow tube, with strawberry cream painted around the inside. The strawberry is tart rather than sugary: there is a real sourness running through the cream, and the biscuit around it is toasty and only faintly sweet. Buy it if you like a strawberry with some sharpness to it; if you want the sweet pink-lolly kind, this is the wrong biscuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: ピコラ いちご (pi-ko-ra ichigo).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTart, not sugary. A clear sourness runs through the strawberry cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThin and crisp: the wall shatters rather than snaps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe cream sits on the inside of the tube, not around the outside. That is the opposite way round from Pocky.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen sticks, five to a sealed bag. It was twelve until a few years ago.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt sheds crumbs as you eat it. It is a hollow tube, and it breaks apart easily.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou will see this shape sold as wafer rolls, cookie sticks, crepe cookies, biscuit sticks, or even \"egg rolls\": all the same thing, and the last one is a translation quirk rather than anything savoury. One more word before you read the reviews below, because it will look like a contradiction otherwise: Japanese shoppers call a set cream filling \u003cem\u003echoco\u003c\/em\u003e, チョコ, or チョコレート, whether or not there is any cocoa in it. Reviewers below say \"chocolate\" and \"strawberry choco\" throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eThey mean this strawberry cream. There is no cocoa in the product.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yamazaki Biscuits","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48331880071394,"sku":"SH-SNK-0077","price":4.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/ybc-picola-strawberry-pack-front.webp?v=1789354939"},{"product_id":"ybc-picola-white-winter-milk","title":"YBC Picola White Winter Milk Cream Wafer Rolls — 10 Sticks","description":"\u003cp\u003eA biscuit stick baked so thin it can be rolled into a hollow tube, with sweet milk cream painted around the inside. It tastes of plain sweetened milk: closer to condensed milk than to chocolate. Buy it if you want something mild and milky; if you are after white chocolate, this is the wrong stick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 白いピコラ 冬のコク旨ミルク味 (shiroi pi-ko-ra). The name comes from the piccolo, the small flute the stick is shaped like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnow-white the whole way through. It is not a white coating over a brown biscuit: the dough itself is baked pale.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe cream sits on the inside of the tube, not around the outside. That is the opposite way round from Pocky.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichness is the one thing people divide on: most taste the milk clearly, some find it lighter than they expected.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Japanese winter edition. It is not made all year, and it is not in the maker's standing line-up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou will see this shape sold as wafer rolls, cookie sticks, crepe cookies, biscuit sticks, or even \"egg rolls\": all the same thing, and the last one is a translation quirk rather than anything savoury. In the reviews below, one Japanese buyer says it made her want a \u003cem\u003eLumonde\u003c\/em\u003e instead: that is Bourbon's rolled wafer biscuit, the closest thing to this on a Japanese shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yamazaki Biscuits","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48331884527842,"sku":"SH-SNK-0076","price":4.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/ybc-picola-white-winter-milk-pack-front.webp?v=1789355135"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/japanese-biscuits.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}