{"title":"Japanese Snacks","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryday Japanese snacks, the konbini and supermarket kind, not souvenir gift boxes: chocolate on biscuits, rice crackers, konjac jelly pouches, thick-cut chips and flavours that vanish after two months. Our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/guides\/don-quijote-japan-donki\"\u003eguide to Don Quijote\u003c\/a\u003e covers the discount chain's snack floor.\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":"orihiro-konjac-jelly-white-peach-mango-grape","title":"Orihiro Konjac Jelly Pouches — White Peach, Mango \u0026 Grape (480g Bag)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA big share bag of Japan's everyday konjac jelly, about 24 little twist-open pouches in white peach, mango and grape. Think of it as Aeroplane jelly's firmer, bouncier cousin: you squeeze it straight from the pouch, and it's dense enough that you actually chew it. If you've seen konjac jelly going around online and wondered what the fuss is, this is the standard Japanese version of it, in the value-size bag Australian shops rarely stock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eぷるんと蒟蒻ゼリー, \"purun to konnyaku jelly\", is the name on the bag, if you're matching it to something you tried in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've been comparing this against the Korean konjac jelly pouches — the drinkable ones with collagen and vitamin C, ten 150ml pouches to a box — it's a different product. Those are sipped, and they're sold as supplements; these are chewed, and they're sold as food.\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: white peach and grape are made with real peach, apple and grape juice; mango is made on mango purée. They're sweeter than the fruit billing suggests, sweetened with sugar plus acesulfame K and sucralose, and you can tell.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: springy, bouncy jelly with real bite. Konjac sets much firmer than gelatine, so it's closer to a soft gummy than to a wobbly jelly cup.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCount\u003c\/strong\u003e: packed by weight rather than by count, so the number in a bag varies — usually 24. Each pouch is a two-bite serve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVegetarian\u003c\/strong\u003e: konjac is a plant root, so it sets without gelatine, and there's nothing animal-derived in any of the three flavours: no gelatine, no carmine, no shellac. That's us reading Orihiro's own ingredient list, not a certification.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: the white peach and grape jellies contain peach and apple juice; the mango declares none. Australia's allergen chart has no peach or apple category, so neither can appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDon't freeze them. Orihiro specifically warns that the pouch can tear and fire the jelly out as one hard lump, which is neither safe nor nice. And chew each one properly rather than sucking it straight from the pouch: konjac jelly is firmer than it looks, so young kids and older folks should have theirs pushed out in small pieces, with someone keeping an eye on them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne bag to try the texture; more if the household approves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orihiro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48169125970146,"sku":"SH-SNK-0002","price":11.81,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/orihiro-konjac-jelly-party-bag-front.webp?v=1786955661"},{"product_id":"orihiro-konjac-jelly-kyoho-grape-muscat-mango","title":"Orihiro Low Calorie Konjac Jelly Pouches — Kyoho Grape, Muscat \u0026 Mango (432g Bag)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-four twist-open pouches of konjac jelly, in Kyoho grape, muscat and mango. It's much firmer than the jelly you know: konjac sets harder than gelatine, so you squeeze it out of the pouch and chew it rather than let it dissolve. This is Orihiro's erythritol-sweetened recipe rather than its fruit-syrup one, which is where the low calories come from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's Orihiro's everyday supermarket range rather than anything premium, and within their low-calorie line this is the big bag, the rest of that line is a 12-pouch version or single standing pouches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eぷるんと蒟蒻ゼリー, \"purun to konnyaku jelly\", is the name on the bag, if you're matching it to something you tried in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're choosing between our two Orihiro bags: this is the low-calorie one, built on erythritol, in grape, muscat and mango, with 18g pouches. The other is the 480g white peach, mango and grape bag, built on fruit syrup, with slightly bigger 20g pouches. Same maker, same twist pouch, genuinely different eating.\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: Kyoho grape (Japan's dark table grape, with a bit of skin astringency to it), muscat (the mildest of the three) and mango. Japanese reviewers pick mango as the favourite by a clear margin, and it's also the one people either love or leave. Sweetened with erythritol: a sweetener made by fermenting plant sugar, a little less sweet than sugar itself, and what this bag uses in place of the sugar syrup in Orihiro's others, plus acesulfame K, aspartame and sucralose. Most people don't pick the difference; a few find it cloying.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: The \"purun\" in the name: springy, bouncy, with real bite. Closer to a soft gummy than to a wobbly jelly cup, and meant to be chewed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCount\u003c\/strong\u003e: packed by weight rather than counted, so the number in a bag varies — usually 24. Each pouch is 18g, about two bites.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGelatine-free\u003c\/strong\u003e: set with konjac, which comes from a plant, not from gelatine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Orihiro declares none of Japan's 28 listed allergens in this one. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, one more\u003c\/strong\u003e: It does contain aspartame, which is a source of phenylalanine. That matters to anyone managing phenylketonuria (PKU); for everyone else it changes nothing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHold the pouch in both hands, cut slowly along the dotted line, push the jelly out a little at a time, and chew it well: don't suck it straight from the pouch, and don't put the cut edge in your mouth. Konjac jelly is firmer than it looks: young kids and older folks should have theirs pushed out in small pieces, with someone keeping an eye on them. Don't freeze them either: the maker warns the pouch can tear and fire the jelly out as one hard lump.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne honest note before you get a bagful. Orihiro's own packet says eating a lot in one go can leave your stomach unsettled. That's the sugar alcohol, and it's true of this whole category rather than this bag in particular. 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If you like a chip you can hear, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf \"hard potato chips\" sounds like a strange thing to want, give them one bag before you decide: writing them off as just hard potatoes and then changing your mind is the usual arc with these. And have them with a beer. In Japan this style of crisp isn't a party snack, it's something you put beside a drink, which is exactly how Calbee sells the range: the crisp to have beside a film or alongside a drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a genuine household name in Japan, not a niche flavour: on Monolog, a Japanese review site that only counts ratings from verified purchasers, this bag has over 13,000 ratings — and that is this flavour specifically, not the wider Kataage range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 堅あげポテト ブラックペッパー (kata-age poteto burakku peppaa). That's the name printed across the front of the bag, if you're checking it against the one you had in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhich Calbee this is\u003c\/strong\u003e: the kataage line, the thick-cut, slow-fried one. Not the everyday Calbee potato chips, and not Jagarico or Jagabee.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: hard and loud rather than light and snappy; it's the point of the product, not a side effect. The chips themselves are small, which is worth knowing if you're picturing an Australian crisp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: sharp salt underneath, and a pepper you can smell when the bag opens and notice in the mouth, but not chilli-hot. Japan sells a separate, hotter version for people who want that.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIs it the good one?\u003c\/strong\u003e: it's the one people argue about. Plenty call it the best in the kataage range; about as many think the pepper is overdone. You'll know which camp you're in quickly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains wheat and soy, and it is made on shared equipment (see below). Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things to know before you order. These are genuinely hard: sharp enough to catch your gums, so they aren't a chip to eat in a hurry, and the pack's own guidance puts them at about four years and up. And the seasoning carries two animal-derived ingredients, a pork-containing yeast extract and a seasoned animal fat, so it isn't suitable if you avoid pork or don't eat meat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt's made on shared equipment.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Japanese pack says the same line also runs products containing egg, milk, prawn and crab. If any of those is a problem for you, treat this as a shared-line product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn size and price: it's a 65g bag, well under an Australian share bag, and it costs more per gram than a supermarket chip. This is a Japan-made import, not the Calbee packets in Coles and Woolworths: those are a different range at a different price. It's also not the hotter black-pepper bag in the same range: Calbee sells that one in Japan as 鬼旨 (oni-uma).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calbee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48216164958434,"sku":"SH-SNK-0004","price":4.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/calbee-kataage-potato-black-pepper-front-of-pack.webp?v=1788685477"},{"product_id":"meiji-meltykiss-premium-chocolate","title":"Meiji Meltykiss Premium Chocolate — Cocoa-Dusted Melting Milk Chocolate (52g Box)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small cube of Japanese milk chocolate, dusted in cocoa powder, that collapses on the tongue instead of snapping. Closer to the soft centre of a Lindor ball than to a block of Dairy Milk, but drier on the outside, and it goes in one bite. Meiji sells it at no other time of year. Buy it if you have ever held a square of chocolate in your mouth waiting for it to soften; if you want something to snap and chew, this is the wrong box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eメルティーキッスプレミアムショコラ (me-ru-tee kissu)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMilk-forward rather than dark. There is Dominican cacao in it, but only about a tenth of the finished chocolate: what comes through is cream and cocoa depth rather than bitterness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoft all the way through, with a dry cocoa-powder coating. The powder is cocoa, not sugar, which is the first thing people get wrong about it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere is the thing worth knowing: Meiji prints \u003cstrong\u003e23°C\u003c\/strong\u003e on this box, and \u003cstrong\u003e28°C\u003c\/strong\u003e on its ordinary chocolate bars. It engineers the fat to melt lower so it gives way on the tongue, and that is the real reason it is a winter-only product in Japan, not a marketing scarcity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhich also means it is the fragile one. In an Australian summer this is a chocolate to have posted in cooler weather, or to accept some risk on. We would rather say that than have it turn up soft.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is a supermarket chocolate in Japan: a small everyday treat, not a gift-box confection. Wrapped one piece at a time, which is what makes it easy to have exactly one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains 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 same chocolate sold as Meltyblend and as Creamy Milk in different markets: the names travel, the product is the same line. If you are wondering because of the Rum \u0026amp; Raisin and Brandy \u0026amp; Orange boxes: those are different Meltykiss flavours, and there is no alcohol in this one's ingredients list. It does not need refrigerating either, despite looking like the kind of soft chocolate that would. Meiji asks for a cool place, not a fridge. 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The strawberry is sweet and properly tart, and it leads: if you would rather the cocoa was in charge, the plain Meltykiss is the one to get.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeltykiss is Meiji's winter range, and it is an everyday supermarket chocolate in Japan rather than a luxury one. The boxes land around October and are gone by February, in Japan, them turning up is one of the small signals that winter has started. This is the strawberry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eメルティーキッスフルーティー濃いちご: the pale lilac box with the big pink snowflake. Worth matching against the one you remember, because Meiji redesigns the pack every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe melt\u003c\/strong\u003e: the centre gives way rather than snapping, and it is gone quickly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCocoa powder on the outside\u003c\/strong\u003e: dusted over the whole cube, so it reads matte and dark rather than glossy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEcuadorian cacao\u003c\/strong\u003e: that is the cacao Meiji uses for this flavour, and for the matcha box too; only the plain one is made with Dominican.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe catch: the strawberry leads hard.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is the thing people disagree about, for most it is the whole appeal, for a minority the chocolate gets lost behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Meiji declares milk, soy and apple, and nothing else on Japan's 28-item allergen list. Japan's list is not Australia's, so a blank there is not a free-from answer for gluten or for nuts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, and it runs the other way too\u003c\/strong\u003e: Australia's chart has no apple category, so apple cannot appear in an allergen box here. Check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe winter boxes all look alike. This is the strawberry, and the others are plain chocolate, matcha and milk tea. It is a small 53 g box, which is simply the size Meiji makes it. The big mixed bags you will see elsewhere work out cheaper per gram, so if that is what you are weighing up, buy one of those: this box is the single flavour. The powder on the outside is cocoa, not icing sugar. If you are wondering whether it is the same thing as Royce' nama chocolate: Meiji does not sell it as one, and we have not found a straight comparison in either language. \u003cstrong\u003eTake warm weather seriously: Meiji says to keep it below 23 °C, and it is not sold in Japan through summer at all, on a hot day it will arrive soft, and nothing in the packaging prevents that.\u003c\/strong\u003e Opinion is split on the fridge, too: some people chill it, some say cold ruins the melt, and Meiji gives no chilling instruction either way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meiji","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244643856610,"sku":"SH-SNK-0005","price":10.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/meiji-meltykiss-strawberry-box.webp?v=1787219559"},{"product_id":"meiji-meltykiss-matcha-chocolate","title":"Meiji Meltykiss Matcha Chocolate — Cocoa-Dusted Melting Cubes, 53g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA matcha chocolate Japan only sells in winter: cocoa-dusted cubes with a soft matcha centre that turns liquid almost as soon as it is in your mouth. Think of a matcha truffle, then make the middle softer. The matcha is fragrant and only faintly bitter, Meiji tunes it that way deliberately, so if you are after the sharp, astringent hit of properly whisked matcha, this is not trying to be that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a supermarket and konbini chocolate rather than a confectioner's box. What makes it worth the trip is the matcha and the texture, not the price bracket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the box: メルティーキッス 初摘み濃抹茶 (merutii-kissu hatsu-tsumi koi-maccha). That is the name printed across the front, if you are checking it against the one you had in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhich Meltykiss this is\u003c\/strong\u003e: the matcha one. Meiji runs three or four flavours each winter in the same size box, so the strawberry and the plain chocolate sit beside it looking almost identical.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe melt\u003c\/strong\u003e: the reason the brand exists. It is softer than ordinary chocolate by design, and it goes from solid to liquid at mouth temperature rather than needing to be chewed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe matcha\u003c\/strong\u003e: first-pick, the earliest leaf of the year rather than a later cutting. What you taste from that is more sweetness and savoury depth, and less of the bitter edge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow strong is it, really?\u003c\/strong\u003e: mild, and on purpose. This is the one thing people argue about: plenty wish it were more bitter, and almost nobody finds it too much. If you have bounced off matcha before for being too grassy or too sharp, this sits at the gentle end.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSmall, and one at a time\u003c\/strong\u003e: about 13 cubes, each individually wrapped, roughly the size of a chocolate you would eat in one bite.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things worth knowing before you order. The cube is not solid through: the outside is dusted in cocoa powder and the centre is a soft matcha chocolate, worth saying because English descriptions of this product disagree with each other about it. The green comes from the matcha plus a colouring made from spirulina, an algae, so there is no synthetic dye in it. There is no gelatine in it, nothing gelatine-derived appears in the ingredients, but we have not been able to confirm whether the emulsifier and flavouring are suitable for vegetarian diets, so we do not claim that either way. And if you are comparing it with Kit Kat's matcha, the difference that matters is texture: this is a soft centre that melts, not a wafer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest warning: heat is a real risk with this one.\u003c\/strong\u003e Meiji builds it to soften below 23°C, well under ordinary chocolate, which is why Japan only sells it from about October to February. It does not need the fridge, but it does need to stay cool, and an Australian summer does not guarantee that. 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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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If you want the everyday Japanese salted chip rather than a novelty flavour, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's also the flavour Japan actually buys. In the year to March 2025 it was the fifth biggest-selling product Calbee sells in Japan, not just of the chips, of everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 堅あげポテト うすしお味 (kata-age poteto usushio-aji). Worth checking against the bag you had in Japan, because English sellers can't agree what to call it. Kataage, Kata-Age, Kata Age, Lightly Salted, Light Salt, Usushio, Hard Fried, Crispy, Salt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhich Calbee this is\u003c\/strong\u003e: the kataage line, the thick-cut, slow-fried one, made in Japan. Not the everyday Calbee potato chips, and not the Calbee packets in Coles and Woolworths. 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Japan's chart has no fish category, so the bonito sits in the pack's ingredient list rather than its allergen box, check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNot vegetarian\u003c\/strong\u003e: worth saying plainly, because Calbee declares no allergens at all, and is right not to.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIs it the good one?\u003c\/strong\u003e: depends what you're after. People who taste the range side by side usually hand it to the black pepper. People who just buy chips buy this one, again and again.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things to know before you order. These are genuinely hard. Calbee's own advice is to chew carefully so you don't hurt your mouth, and it says the product is for ages four and up. They aren't a chip to eat in a hurry. 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If you want the everyday Japanese potato snack rather than a novelty flavour, this is the standard one: the rest of the line, cheese and butter and cod-roe, are all variations on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also the one Japan actually buys. In Calbee's own ranking of everything it sold at home in the year to March 2025, this cup came first, ahead of its cereal and ahead of its potato chips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: じゃがりこ サラダ (ja-ga-ri-ko sa-ra-da). Worth checking against the cup you had in Japan, because English sellers can't agree what to call it. Jagarico, Jagariko, potato sticks, potato fries, potato chips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe flavour, plainly\u003c\/strong\u003e: salt first, then a soft dairy creaminess from skim milk powder, with dried carrot and parsley worked into the stick itself. Savoury, never sweet, and mild enough to finish a whole cup without tiring of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYou hear the first bite\u003c\/strong\u003e: hard resistance first, then it turns crumbly and floury as it breaks up. Expect hard and crunchy rather than crisp: it is not a crisp and it does not behave like one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt also turns into a bowl of potato salad\u003c\/strong\u003e: a Japanese trick, not the instructions; you eat it dry, straight from the cup. But if you want to: tip the sticks into a heatproof bowl (never the cup itself, which Calbee warns is not heat-safe), add 115 ml of hot water, cover for three minutes, then mash and stir mayonnaise through.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is genuinely hard work\u003c\/strong\u003e: a whole cup is a lot of chewing, and it will leave you wanting a drink. Have one beside you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things worth knowing before you order. \u003cstrong\u003e\"Salad\" is the flavour's name, not its contents\u003c\/strong\u003e: there is no lettuce and nothing fresh in it; the seasoning is built on carrot, parsley and milk powder, and the name has been catching English speakers out for years. It is not a chip and not a fry: the potato is cooked, mashed and re-formed into sticks, which is why they break the way they do. Jagabee is a separate Calbee product, not another size of this one. And you do not add water to eat it. 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If you have had the salted or the black pepper bag and want the one that tastes least like an Australian chip, this is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a regional bag. Calbee sells it across Kansai and three prefectures on the Japan Sea coast, nine in all, and nowhere else in Japan. It had one brief national run earlier this year, and that is already over. Even the weight tells you which kind of bag you are holding: Calbee's national flavours come in 65 g bags, its regional ones in 63 g.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 堅あげポテト 関西だししょうゆ (kata-age poteto kansai dashi shoyu). Worth checking against the bag you had, because English sellers can't agree what to call it, Kataage, Kata-Age, Hard-Cut, Crispy, and three different Calbee products share the name \"Kansai Dashi Shoyu\". Ours is the thick-cut one, 63 g.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat the dashi actually tastes like\u003c\/strong\u003e: bonito and kelp stock carried on soy sauce, with a definite sweetness. Savoury and deep rather than sharp. \u003cstrong\u003eNot the delicate thing the name suggests\u003c\/strong\u003e, expect it stronger and sweeter than \"Kansai dashi\" sounds, though a minority still find it light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHard, and deliberately so\u003c\/strong\u003e: sliced thick and fried slowly, so it breaks with a crack rather than a snap. 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Japan's chart has no category for fish or mollusc, so the bonito and scallop sit in the pack's ingredient list rather than its allergen box, check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt travels badly\u003c\/strong\u003e: a bag of thick chips crushes. Worth knowing before you order several.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things worth knowing. \u003cstrong\u003e\"Kansai\" is the region around Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe\u003c\/strong\u003e. Calbee's own English page lists the nine prefectures it sells this in and never says what Kansai is. \u003cstrong\u003eDashi\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bonito-and-kelp stock most Japanese cooking starts with; here it is a powder on a chip rather than a broth. \u003cem\u003eKataage\u003c\/em\u003e just means hard-fried and thick-cut. \u003cstrong\u003eAnd take it slowly: this is hard enough that Calbee puts an age guide on the bag and warns you to chew well.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calbee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48258651291874,"sku":"SH-SNK-0011","price":4.82,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/calbee-kataage-kansai-dashi-bag.webp?v=1787646965"},{"product_id":"calbee-pizza-potato","title":"Calbee Pizza Potato — Japanese Cheese-Topped Chips, 60g","description":"\u003cp\u003eThick, ridged potato chips with flakes of cheese melted onto them. Calbee drops the cheese on the instant the chips leave the fryer, so it fuses into the surface instead of dusting it. It leads on cheese, with a savoury-sweet tomato and oregano note and a little warmth behind it, not the pepperoni-pizza flavour the name suggests. This is the bag Japan sells, which is not the Calbee pizza chip on the Australian supermarket shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eピザポテト: \"piza poteto\". The black bag with the Italian flag stripe across the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYou can see the cheese on the chip\u003c\/strong\u003e: flakes part-melted into it rather than sprayed on as powder. Expect it rich and heavy; that is the design, not an accident.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRidged and thick-cut\u003c\/strong\u003e: a deep crunch, with grooves built to hold more cheese. 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It's a pretzel shell rather than a biscuit one, there is salt in the dough, along with a little sugar and 1% cocoa, wrapped around a sweet, milky chocolate filling, so you taste salt and sweetness in the same bite. One thing is worth knowing before you buy: this is the export box, made in Thailand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eトッポ (Toppo).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe filling runs the whole length of the stick, so you never hit a bare stub at the end the way you do with a coated one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust over half the weight of what's in the box is filling, the label puts it at 53%.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is the single-sleeve 40 g box. 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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. 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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. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlfort itself is a staple in Japan: the 147 g share bag was the country's best-selling confectionery for four months running to October 2025. That's the range, not this strawberry box. Bourbon has put out several strawberry Alforts: a raspberry-and-strawberry one, a winter melt-in-the-mouth one, and a Kyushu souvenir box, so the barcode is the reliable way to match a pack you saw. This one is a standing year-round line rather than a seasonal release, whatever the listings calling it a limited edition say. 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It is still chocolate in an Australian climate: it handles better than most because of that coating, but keep it somewhere cool, which is Meiji's own instruction too. And if you are weighing it against the other two Meiji boxes, the difference is texture and coating rather than quality: this one is crisp under plain milk chocolate, the macadamia is soft, and the matcha is this same almond under a green-tea coating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meiji","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289821458658,"sku":"SH-SNK-0027","price":6.03,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/meiji-almond-chocolate-pack.webp?v=1788098089"},{"product_id":"meiji-macadamia-chocolate","title":"Meiji Macadamia Chocolate — Slow-Roasted Nut, 64g","description":"\u003cp\u003eMacadamia roasted slowly in hot oil until the heat reaches the middle of the nut, then broken up and set into a milk chocolate Meiji mixes specially for it. Where the almond box snaps, this one gives: the nut is soft and crumbles rather than cracks, under a mellower, sweeter coating mixed for it. Nine to a paper box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003eマカダミアチョコレート\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003emakadamia chokoreeto\u003c\/em\u003e), macadamia chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe nut is crushed, not whole.\u003c\/strong\u003e If you are picturing one intact kernel in each piece, it is not that. Meiji uses broken macadamia, closer to two halves. If you know Lotte's version, which does use a whole nut, you will spot the difference immediately, and some people prefer theirs for exactly that reason.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSoft where almond is crisp.\u003c\/strong\u003e The slow oil roast leaves the nut yielding rather than hard: a crumble instead of a snap. That texture is the entire reason to choose this box over the almond one. Meiji once put the two head to head in a national vote of its own and they finished within about one per cent of each other, a maker's own poll rather than an independent survey, but it tells you the choice is genuinely even.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eChocolate leads, nut follows.\u003c\/strong\u003e Worth saying plainly, because the picture suggests otherwise: there is more chocolate than nut in these, and next to Meiji's own almond box the macadamia plays the supporting part. If you want the nut in front, buy the almond.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt melts, and it is the softer of the two.\u003c\/strong\u003e There is no finger-proof coating here of the kind the almond box has. 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If you have been disappointed by matcha confectionery that turns out to be sweet green icing, this is the one that answers back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003eアーモンドチョコレート抹茶\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eaamondo chokoreeto maccha\u003c\/em\u003e), almond chocolate, matcha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe matcha actually lands, and there is unusual evidence for it.\u003c\/strong\u003e In February 2025 a Japanese television panel of three pastry chefs ranked this box first out of twenty supermarket and convenience-store matcha snacks. Among the Japanese buyers of this pack who comment on the matcha at all, about three in four say it comes through rather than hiding behind the sugar, which for this category is not the usual result.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDon't judge it by the colour.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some of the green in the coating comes from added colour, so the shade is not a reading of how much tea is in there. The taste is.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCheck the weight against what you have seen here.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is the 67 g box. Meiji replaced the older 58 g pack in late 2024, and the discontinued size is still on sale in Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest bit, and there are two.\u003c\/strong\u003e The commonest complaint from Japanese buyers is that this is not different enough from the plain milk-chocolate box to justify the extra: if you only want the almond, buy that one. The second is the box itself: it is noticeably bigger than what is inside it, and the pieces roll around in the empty half.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains milk, almond and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne more thing. Like the rest of Meiji's nut range, vegetable fat stands in for part of the cocoa butter here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meiji","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289832108258,"sku":"SH-SNK-0030","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/meiji-almond-chocolate-matcha-pack.webp?v=1788124928"},{"product_id":"kinjo-seika-ogura-yokan","title":"Kinjo Seika Ogura Yokan — Red Bean Jelly Bar, 130g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dense, sliceable block of sweetened bean paste with whole red beans set through it. The nearest Australian thing is quince paste, the same firmness, the same slice-it-thin sweetness, except this tastes of red bean rather than of fruit or caramel, and it is eaten on its own rather than next to cheese. It sets with agar, a seaweed jelly, so there is no gelatine in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003e小倉ようかん\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eogura yōkan\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eYokan\u003c\/em\u003e is the sweet itself; \u003cem\u003eogura\u003c\/em\u003e is the style that leaves the beans whole instead of straining them smooth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSlice it. Don't bite it.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is 130 g of something very sweet and solid, and one bar is easily two or three sittings rather than one: cut a thin slice across it, fold the wrapper back over the rest, and come back to it later.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhole beans, not just paste.\u003c\/strong\u003e The azuki (red beans) are left in rather than strained out, and they are Hokkaido-grown, the pack says so on the front. You can see them through the wrapper before you open it, and you get them in the slice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAgar, not gelatine.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is set with kanten, a jelly made from seaweed, which is what makes yokan firm enough to slice cleanly instead of wobbling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest bit: it is sweeter than it looks.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a sugar-set sweet and does not pretend otherwise, the sugar can carry further than the bean does. If you like your desserts restrained, cut the slice thinner than you think you need.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow it differs from the other two.\u003c\/strong\u003e Same maker, same 130 g bar, three ways. This is the dark one. The pale bar has the \u003cem\u003esame\u003c\/em\u003e beans on a white bean paste base, which changes the colour far more than it changes the taste. The third has chestnut pieces instead. That is the whole choice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: none declared. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things worth knowing before it arrives. It is a plain matte brown block and it is supposed to look like that: yokan has none of the colour of a Western jelly sweet, and that flatness is not the sign of a poor one. And this is the everyday end of the category in Japan, the big unfussy bar off a supermarket shelf rather than something from a gift counter, which is exactly what makes it a sensible first yokan rather than an expensive guess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you met something like this in Japan and never learned its name, our guide \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/guides\/wagashi-what-was-that-japanese-sweet\"\u003ewhat was that Japanese sweet?\u003c\/a\u003e names the whole family. Yokan is the one built to keep, which is why it travels, and why it is the one we can put on a shelf here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kinjo Seika","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290517483746,"sku":"SH-SNK-0032","price":3.03,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/kinjo-seika-ogura-yokan-pack.webp?v=1788125135"},{"product_id":"kinjo-seika-kuri-yokan","title":"Kinjo Seika Kuri Yokan — Chestnut Jelly Bar, 130g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sliceable block of sweetened bean paste with small pieces of chestnut set through it: you cut it into thin slices, the way you would quince paste. The chestnut is gentle: a background sweetness rather than a roasted-chestnut hit. So it suits you if you want the quietest of our three yokan bars, and not if you want something that tastes emphatically of chestnut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003e栗ようかん\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003ekuri yōkan\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eKuri\u003c\/em\u003e is chestnut; \u003cem\u003eyokan\u003c\/em\u003e is the sweet itself, a block of sweetened bean paste set with agar, a jelly made from seaweed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest bit first: the chestnut is subtle.\u003c\/strong\u003e The pieces are small, and you may well have to go looking for the flavour. It is a background note rather than the point of the bar. Buy it for a gentler, lighter yokan rather than for a chestnut dessert.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow it differs from the other two.\u003c\/strong\u003e Same maker, same 130 g bar, three ways. The other two are both red-bean bars, one dark, one pale, and what separates \u003cem\u003ethem\u003c\/em\u003e is the paste they are built on rather than the beans. This is the odd one out: chestnut pieces instead of whole beans, and a quieter flavour. They are easy to mix up on a shelf, and people do.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAgar, not gelatine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Like the rest of the line it sets with kanten, a jelly made from seaweed, which is what lets you cut a clean slice instead of a wobble.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSlice it thin.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a solid 130 g of sugar-set sweet. A bar might be one sitting or three, start with a thin slice and find out which you are.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains chestnut. Japan's chart has no chestnut category, so it sits in the pack's ingredient list rather than its allergen box. Australia's chart has no chestnut category either, so it cannot appear in an allergen box here. Check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things worth knowing before it arrives. It is a plain, understated-looking block rather than a bright one, and that is not the sign of a poor one. And like its siblings this is the everyday end of the category in Japan: the big unfussy bar off a supermarket shelf rather than something from a gift counter, which is what makes it a sensible way to find out whether you like yokan at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you met something like this in Japan and never learned its name, our guide \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/guides\/wagashi-what-was-that-japanese-sweet\"\u003ewhat was that Japanese sweet?\u003c\/a\u003e names the whole family. Yokan is the one built to keep, which is why it travels, and why it is the one we can put on a shelf here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kinjo Seika","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290519482594,"sku":"SH-SNK-0033","price":3.18,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/kinjo-seika-kuri-yokan-pack.webp?v=1788125218"},{"product_id":"kinjo-seika-neri-yokan","title":"Kinjo Seika Neri Yokan — Pale Red Bean Jelly Bar, 130g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pale, translucent block of sweetened bean paste with whole red beans set through it. You cut it into thin slices, the way you would quince paste, except it is a clean bean sweetness rather than fruit or caramel. Buy it if you want the milder-looking of our two red-bean bars; the dark one is the more obvious place to start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: \u003cstrong\u003e煉ようかん\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eneri yokan\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cstrong\u003eYokan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the sweet itself: a block of sweetened bean paste set firm enough to slice; \u003cem\u003eneri\u003c\/em\u003e is the name for this agar-set style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYou can see what is in it.\u003c\/strong\u003e The azuki (red beans) are left whole and suspended through a pale base, so they show up as dark flecks all the way along the bar, the same Hokkaido beans that go into the dark bar, where the dark paste hides how many there are.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow it differs from the other two.\u003c\/strong\u003e Same maker, same 130 g, same beans. This one is built on white bean paste and the dark one on red, which changes the colour completely and the taste far less than the look suggests. The third bar swaps the beans for chestnut pieces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAgar, not gelatine.\u003c\/strong\u003e It sets with kanten, a jelly made from seaweed, which is what makes yokan firm enough to slice cleanly instead of wobbling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSlice it thin.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a solid 130 g of sugar-set sweet, so cut a slice about the thickness of a coin, fold the wrapper back over the rest and come back to it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: none declared. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things worth knowing before it arrives. If you go looking up what \u003cem\u003eneri\u003c\/em\u003e yokan means, you will read that it is the smooth, strained kind and that \u003cem\u003eogura\u003c\/em\u003e is the one with whole beans. That is the usual convention across Japanese confectioners, and it is \u003cstrong\u003enot\u003c\/strong\u003e how this maker uses it: both of its bars carry the same beans, and the paste is what changes. And the pale, faintly cloudy look is simply what a white-paste bar looks like, not a sign that anything is wrong with it. Like both its siblings, this is the everyday end of the category in Japan: the big unfussy bar off a supermarket shelf rather than something from a gift counter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you met something like this in Japan and never learned its name, our guide \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/guides\/wagashi-what-was-that-japanese-sweet\"\u003ewhat was that Japanese sweet?\u003c\/a\u003e names the whole family. Yokan is the one built to keep, which is why it travels, and why it is the one we can put on a shelf here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kinjo Seika","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290613657826,"sku":"SH-SNK-0034","price":3.03,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/kinjo-seika-neri-yokan-pack.webp?v=1788125350"},{"product_id":"mister-ito-languly-assam-milk-tea","title":"Mister Ito Languly Assam Milk Tea Biscuits — 12 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thin, crisp biscuit with a milk-tea cream between two of them, twelve to a box. The tea leads: it is the first thing you get, not a background note behind the sugar. If you want a biscuit whose flavour is the reason you picked it up, this is that one: if you want the biscuit itself to be the star, the vanilla or chocolate Languly will suit you better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eラングリー アッサム香るミルクティー. 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. 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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. 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":48290700820706,"sku":"SH-SNK-0036","price":4.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/mister-ito-languly-uji-matcha-box.webp?v=1788159242"},{"product_id":"glico-bisco","title":"Glico Bisco Milk Cream Sandwich Biscuits — 15 Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eBisco is a small cream sandwich biscuit Glico has been making since 1933: two crisp, lightly sweet biscuits around a milk cream with a faint yoghurt-like tang. 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. 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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. 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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":"glico-pocky-chocolate","title":"Glico Japanese Pocky Chocolate Sticks — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThin wheat biscuit sticks under a real chocolate coating, with a snap you can hear: the biscuit underneath is toasty and faintly salty, which is the half worth paying attention to. This is the Japanese-made box, and its ingredient list names cacao mass (ground cocoa beans), cocoa butter and fermented butter. Buy it if you want the Pocky you remember from Japan; if you just want a cheap chocolate stick for a lunchbox, the supermarket carries one for a fraction of this and it will do that job fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pack reads ポッキーチョコレート: \u003cem\u003epok-kee choco-rey-to\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\u003eNot the same recipe as the supermarket box.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Pocky Australian supermarkets sell is made in Thailand: every line of it that states an origin says so on Coles' own product pages. On the export pack whose full panel we could read, the coating is not called chocolate at all but \u003cem\u003echocolate flavoured cream\u003c\/em\u003e, built on palm and rapeseed oils with no cocoa butter in it. This one is made in Japan, which is what a returning traveller is noticing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe recipe changed in September 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e, for the first time in ten years. It is still argued over in Japan, and people divide sharply over whether the result is better than what they remember. Worth knowing before you decide your memory is wrong.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eChill it before you eat it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cold chocolate goes hard and snaps instead of smearing, and the pack does not tell you. It is the one piece of handling advice worth having with these.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt will not enjoy a Sydney summer.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico's own instruction is to keep it below 28°C, and there is chocolate on the outside where the heat reaches it first. In hot weather expect to want it in the fridge, and expect a hot-day delivery to arrive softer than it left.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a biscuit stick, not a pretzel in the salty-knot sense. Glico prints プレッツェル on the box, meaning the thin baked wheat stick, not the twisted bar-snack kind. It is not Pepero, which is a Korean lookalike made by Lotte, and not Mikado, which is what Glico calls Pocky in Europe. Inside the box are two sealed packs rather than one open tray, which is what makes it easy to take somewhere and open one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296513863906,"sku":"SH-SNK-0040","price":5.1,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-chocolate-red-box.webp?v=1788499355"},{"product_id":"glico-pocky-gokuboso","title":"Glico Pocky Gokuboso Thin Chocolate Sticks — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe same chocolate as the red box, on a stick with about half the cross-section, so there is more chocolate against less biscuit, and it snaps harder rather than softer. Thin here means firmer, not more delicate: the opposite of what the word sounds like. Buy it if the chocolate is the part you care about; if you want something to get your teeth into, the red box is the thicker of the two, and people who compare them do split over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pack reads ポッキー＜極細＞: \u003cem\u003egok-oo-boso\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning \"extra fine\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout 30% narrower, not half as thick.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico's \"about 1\/2\" is footnoted on its own page as a \u003cem\u003ecross-sectional area\u003c\/em\u003e ratio, and half the area works out to roughly seven-tenths of the width. English pages about this product tend to call it thinner and leave it there. The difference is smaller than \"half\" sounds, and still enough to change the eat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMore chocolate against less biscuit.\u003c\/strong\u003e That is the whole difference, and it is why the same chocolate can read stronger here without being a different recipe. Some people taste it as more chocolatey and some taste it as identical: both are describing the same change from opposite ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Australian supermarkets don't have it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Coles and Woolworths both range Pocky, and every line of it that states an origin says Thailand. None of it is this. Glico does not export the thin one under any name.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt will not enjoy a Sydney summer.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico says keep it under 28°C, and the chocolate is on the outside where the heat gets to it first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not a different flavour from the red box. The chocolate is the same chocolate and only the texture changed; the difference is the ratio and the snap. Glico prints プレッツェル on the box and Japanese buyers use the word too: it means this kind of thin baked wheat stick, not the twisted salty knot, so the quotes below calling it a pretzel mean the biscuit. Unlike the red box it has no fermented butter in it, which Glico adds to that one only.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296514060514,"sku":"SH-SNK-0041","price":5.1,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-gokuboso-white-box.webp?v=1788499844"},{"product_id":"glico-pocky-tsubutsubu-ichigo","title":"Glico Strawberry Pocky Tsubutsubu Ichigo — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrawberry cream with freeze-dried fruit through it, coated twice onto a wholemeal \u003cstrong\u003ecocoa\u003c\/strong\u003e biscuit stick. What is underneath is chocolatey and slightly bitter, and the fruit reads sharp rather than sweet against it. It is the only strawberry Pocky Glico builds this way. Buy it if you want a strawberry snack that tastes tart; if you are after the soft pink sweetness of the supermarket strawberry Pocky, this is not that, and the difference is not subtle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pack reads つぶつぶいちごポッキー: \u003cem\u003etsoo-boo-tsoo-boo ee-chee-go\u003c\/em\u003e, roughly \"bitty strawberry\", after the pieces of fruit in the cream. Glico prints プレッツェル on the box, meaning the thin baked wheat stick rather than the twisted salty bar-snack kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe strawberry is real, and that is the question people actually ask.\u003c\/strong\u003e It tastes like fruit rather than flavouring: there is a genuine tartness to it, and pieces you can feel against your teeth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThere is also added colour, something to make it tart (an acidulant) and flavouring in the list\u003c\/strong\u003e, and both things are true at once. The colour is beetroot-derived rather than a synthetic dye. Where anyone does read it as artificial, it is the \u003cem\u003esmell\u003c\/em\u003e they mean rather than the taste: the aroma is the sweet-shop part of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is cocoa, not plain, and among the strawberry Pocky, this box is the only place Glico does that.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a bitter base under a sweet cream, and the contrast is what makes it work, though the cocoa is subtle enough to miss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not the box Coles sells.\u003c\/strong\u003e The strawberry Pocky Coles sells is made in Thailand, Coles states that on its own page, and Glico's export listing for it describes a plain wheat stick with strawberry powder and artificial flavour, no fruit pieces. Same brand, same pink, different product.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not sweeter than ordinary Pocky.\u003c\/strong\u003e Whatever the pink box suggests, the cream is the sweet part and the biscuit under it is not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt will not enjoy a Sydney summer.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico says keep it under 28°C, and the cream is on the outside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a permanent line in Japan rather than a winter special, so it is not going anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296514158818,"sku":"SH-SNK-0042","price":5.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-tsubutsubu-ichigo-pink-box.webp?v=1788500388"},{"product_id":"glico-pocky-almond-crush","title":"Glico Pocky Almond Crush Chocolate Sticks — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eChocolate-coated pretzel sticks with coarsely broken roasted almonds pressed all over the coating, on a wholemeal biscuit made with almond praline. Almond sits third on the ingredient list, ahead of the milk and the cocoa, and you can taste that, though whether it tastes more of nut or more of chocolate genuinely divides people, and the crunch comes from the nut rather than the biscuit either way. Buy it if you want the nut to be the point; if you want a straightforward chocolate stick, the plain red box is the one you want, not this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eアーモンドクラッシュポッキー: \u003cem\u003ea-mon-do ku-rash-shu pok-kii\u003c\/em\u003e, the name on the blue box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFourteen sticks, seven in each of two sealed bags.\u003c\/strong\u003e Worth knowing before you buy, because it is the one thing about this box that disappoints people, it goes faster than the size of it suggests, and the count has not changed since 2019. The two bags are genuinely useful though: open one, keep one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe crunch is the almond, not the biscuit.\u003c\/strong\u003e Coarse broken pieces rather than a dust, so you get a proper hard bite against the snap of the stick. The chocolate covers most of the stick and leaves the top bare, which is the whole reason Pocky exists.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReal chocolate, and a wholemeal stick underneath.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cacao mass (ground cocoa beans) and cocoa butter are both on the list, and the pretzel is made with wholemeal flour and a little almond praline: it has a definite bready, savoury note under the sweetness rather than tasting like a plain sugar biscuit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt divides people on sweetness, and that's worth knowing.\u003c\/strong\u003e The same milk chocolate tastes too sweet to some people and too faint to others, opposite complaints about one coating. Which way it goes depends on what you came for, and there is no consensus to hand you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTry it out of the fridge.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chilling firms the chocolate and sharpens the snap. Handy here for a second reason too: this is a chocolate-coated stick and it is not built for a hot letterbox. Keep it below 28 °C, which is Glico's own instruction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat, soy and almond\u003c\/strong\u003e. This is the only Pocky we sell that carries a tree nut. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing to clear up before you order: this is \u003cstrong\u003eAlmond Crush Pocky\u003c\/strong\u003e, not the Almond Pocky some people remember. That was a different line, sold from 1971 to 2003 with brief revivals in 2009 and 2011, and Japanese buyers mix the two up as often as anyone else does. And this is the Japanese domestic box; the almond Pocky Australian supermarkets range is a different pack under a different name.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296843804898,"sku":"SH-SNK-0043","price":5.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-almond-crush-blue-box-front.webp?v=1788500655"},{"product_id":"glico-pocky-koi-fukami-matcha","title":"Glico Matcha Pocky Koi Fukami — Uji Green Tea, 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA matcha Pocky where the matcha is in the biscuit as well as the coating: the stick itself is green, with matcha worked into the dough, under a chocolate made with stone-milled matcha. It tastes clearly of green tea rather than of green-tea flavouring: more sweet-edged than bracing, though the matcha does deliver for most people. It is the approachable one of the two matcha boxes we sell. Buy it if you want matcha you can eat a whole bag of; if you want the richer, thicker-coated version, the two-layer box is the one, though be warned that its own buyers split on whether it is actually as astringent as its name claims.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eポッキー＜濃い深み抹茶＞: \u003cem\u003ekoi fukami matcha\u003c\/em\u003e, roughly \"deep, rich matcha\". Matcha is powdered green tea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo kinds of matcha, not twice as much.\u003c\/strong\u003e You will see this sold in English as \"double the green tea\". It is a mistranslation: 二種の抹茶 means \u003cem\u003etwo kinds\u003c\/em\u003e. One is ground on a stone mill and goes into the chocolate; a second, more bitter one is kneaded into the biscuit. Glico names Uji matcha. Uji, near Kyoto, is the region Japan most associates with it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is green, and you taste the matcha in it.\u003c\/strong\u003e It snaps like any other Pocky; what changes is that the bitter edge comes up through the stick instead of sitting only on the outside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow strong is it, honestly.\u003c\/strong\u003e The matcha delivers for most palates, and a real minority find the pack promises more than it gives: the word that falls short is \u003cem\u003ebitter\u003c\/em\u003e, not \u003cem\u003ematcha\u003c\/em\u003e. If you read matcha desserts as usually too sweet, you will probably like it. If you drink your matcha unsweetened, temper your expectations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a spring seasonal in Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e, run once a year since 2017 and not made the rest of the time. What is on the shelf is what there is until the next run.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThere is caffeine in it\u003c\/strong\u003e, as there is in any real green-tea product. Glico declares it on the pack, which it does not do on most Pocky.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. The same production line also runs egg and peanut products. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree things to clear up before you order. First, we sell \u003cstrong\u003etwo\u003c\/strong\u003e matcha Pocky and their Japanese names differ by one character. This is 濃い\u003cstrong\u003e深み\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem\u003ekoi fukami\u003c\/em\u003e, \"deep\", and the other is 濃い\u003cstrong\u003e渋み\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003ekoi shibumi\u003c\/em\u003e, \"astringent\", built in two chocolate layers over a cocoa biscuit and more thickly coated. Second, the matcha Pocky Australian supermarkets range is a different, smaller pack made for export, and its own retailer describes the coating as a green tea \u003cem\u003ecream\u003c\/em\u003e; this box's ingredient list names cocoa butter. Third, Glico has quietly made this box smaller twice since 2019 and most sellers still list an older, larger pack. This is the current one. Keep it below 28 °C and out of direct sun; it is chocolate on a stick, and a hot letterbox will show.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296844001506,"sku":"SH-SNK-0044","price":6.1,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-koi-fukami-matcha-box-front.webp?v=1788500817"},{"product_id":"glico-pocky-two-layer-matcha","title":"Glico Matcha Pocky 2-Layer Uji Green Tea — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe premium matcha Pocky, and the only one built in two chocolate layers: a \u003cstrong\u003ecocoa\u003c\/strong\u003e biscuit is coated in a thick matcha chocolate, then wrapped again in an aerated, mousse-textured chocolate. You get a hard snap and then something that gives way and melts, which no other Pocky does. The matcha is genuinely strong, and the coating is noticeably thicker than the single-layer box's. Buy it if you want the good version rather than the everyday one; if you want something you can eat a whole bag of without thinking, the single-layer box is the easier buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eポッキー2層仕立て＜濃い渋み抹茶＞: \u003cem\u003enisou shitate\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning \"made in two layers\". Matcha is powdered green tea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo coatings, not two biscuits.\u003c\/strong\u003e Layer one is a dense matcha chocolate straight onto the stick; layer two is whipped with air until it is light. You can see both in cross-section if you snap a stick.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is cocoa, not matcha.\u003c\/strong\u003e That is the real difference from the other green box: the bitterness under the coating here is cocoa, and it is what keeps a thickly-coated sweet stick from cloying.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is properly rich, and that part holds up.\u003c\/strong\u003e It sits clearly above ordinary matcha Pocky for the people who eat a lot of both. What splits opinion is the \u003cem\u003eastringency\u003c\/em\u003e the name promises: it tastes milder than billed about as often as it delivers. Rich, yes. Bracing, not reliably.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo layers you can see; two flavours you may not taste.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cross-section is unmistakable, but whether you actually taste the mild matcha and the sharper one as two things in the same bite is genuinely disputed. Worth knowing before you pay for the construction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt carries caffeine\u003c\/strong\u003e, as any real green-tea product does, and this is the only Pocky we sell where Glico declares it on the pack, with more of it than the single-layer matcha box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is a limited run\u003c\/strong\u003e: Glico sells it until it is gone rather than stocking it year-round.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree things before you order. We sell \u003cstrong\u003etwo\u003c\/strong\u003e matcha Pocky whose Japanese names differ by a single character. This is 濃い\u003cstrong\u003e渋み\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem\u003ekoi shibumi\u003c\/em\u003e, \"astringent\", the two-layer one; the other is 濃い\u003cstrong\u003e深み\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003ekoi fukami\u003c\/em\u003e, \"deep\", single-layer with matcha in the biscuit, sweeter and easier going. The matcha Pocky Australian supermarkets range is neither: it is a smaller pack made for export, and its own retailer describes the coating as a green tea \u003cem\u003ecream\u003c\/em\u003e, where this box's ingredient list names cocoa butter. And take the storage seriously on this one in particular: the outer layer is an aerated chocolate, the softest coating of any Pocky we stock, and Glico's instruction is to keep it below 28 °C and out of direct sun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296844493026,"sku":"SH-SNK-0045","price":8.3,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-nisou-shitate-matcha-box-front.webp?v=1788501071"},{"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-sasa-rich-uji-matcha-woven-chocolate-69g","title":"Lotte Sasa Rich Uji Matcha Woven Chocolate — 69g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA chocolate built from about 1,350 thread-thin lines, woven into a sheet and cut into pieces, so it snaps instead of breaking. Three chocolates go into the weave: matcha, bitter and white. Matcha is green tea ground to a powder, and this one uses matcha from Uji, the tea-growing area near Kyoto. Buy it if you want matcha you can eat like chocolate; if you want a strong, bitter, tea-forward hit, this is the wrong box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: 紗々 芳醇抹茶. The name is said \u003cem\u003esasha\u003c\/em\u003e, and 紗 is the word for a thin, sheer woven cloth, which is exactly what the chocolate is made to look like. The plain chocolate box is the original of the range; this is the matcha one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEach line is about 1.5 mm wide. You can hear it break, and then it comes apart on the tongue rather than melting in a lump.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow much matcha you taste divides people. Some get a rich, grown-up tea flavour; others find the white chocolate takes over.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEach piece is wrapped on its own, so the box is easy to hand round at work or take to someone's house.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeep it somewhere cool, each piece is a thin woven sheet, not a solid block.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains milk and soy. Made on equipment that also handles egg and wheat. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf matcha KitKat is your reference, this is a different thing: there is no wafer, and the matcha is mixed through the chocolate rather than coating it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lotte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48311744069858,"sku":"SH-SNK-0050","price":9.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/lotte-sasa-rich-uji-matcha-box-front.webp?v=1788513112"},{"product_id":"morinaga-amaou-strawberry-koeda-44-sticks","title":"Morinaga Amaou Strawberry Koeda Chocolate — 44 Sticks","description":"\u003cp\u003eKoeda means \"twig\", and that is what these are: short, knobbly sticks of chocolate you eat four at a time. This winter version is made with strawberry powder from Amaou, a Fukuoka strawberry. It tastes like strawberry milk. Buy it if you want that; if you want fresh fruit, this is the wrong box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: あまおう苺の小枝.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForty-four sticks, sealed four to a bag in eleven small bags, so an opened box does not go stale on you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe crunch inside comes from crushed biscuit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Amaou name is where the strawberry comes from, not a flavour you can pick out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is sweet rather than cocoa-bitter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe sticks do not melt easily in the hand, so they travel well in a bag.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKoeda is a household name in Japan. That is the range, running since 1971, not this winter box, which comes back for one run a year.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe strawberry divides people on whether it tastes tart at all, some find a sweet-sour edge, others none.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morinaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48311746101474,"sku":"SH-SNK-0052","price":8.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/morinaga-amaou-strawberry-koeda-box-front.webp?v=1789296907"},{"product_id":"kasugai-konpeito-japanese-sugar-candy-76g","title":"Kasugai Konpeito Japanese Sugar Candy — 76g Bag","description":"\u003cp\u003eKonpeito is sugar: spiked, coloured crystals grown slowly rather than moulded. 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This is the sweetened one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains orange. Australia's allergen chart has no orange category, so orange cannot appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChew each piece properly instead of swallowing it whole, and watch small children and older people while they eat it. Do not freeze them: frozen jelly goes hard, can split the film as you squeeze, and comes out in one lump.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orihiro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48313190154466,"sku":"SH-SNK-0054","price":6.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/orihiro-purun-konjac-jelly-shine-muscat-orange-pack.webp?v=1789301703"},{"product_id":"orihiro-low-calorie-konjac-jelly-peach-kyoho-grape","title":"Orihiro Low Calorie Konjac Jelly — Peach \u0026 Kyoho Grape, 12 Pouches","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve squeeze pouches of Japanese konjac jelly, six white peach and six Kyoho grape, sweetened with erythritol rather than sugar syrup. It is firm and springy, and you chew it rather than swallow it. Buy it if you want something sweet that is genuinely low in calories; if artificial sweeteners taste obvious to you, you will taste them in this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the pack: ぷるんと蒟蒻ゼリー カロリーゼロ 白桃＋巨峰. Konjac: \u003cem\u003ekonnyaku\u003c\/em\u003e in Japanese, is the root vegetable the jelly is set with instead of gelatine. Kyoho is a big, dark, sweet Japanese table grape.\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: Clean and delicate rather than rich, and the fruit in both halves is faint.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: Firm and bouncy, nearer a fruit gummy than a set jelly. Orihiro's instruction is to chew each mouthful, not to swallow it whole.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat sweetens it\u003c\/strong\u003e: Erythritol, a sugar alcohol, does the bulk of the work in place of sugar syrup, topped up with acesulfame K, aspartame and sucralose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhy the pack says zero\u003c\/strong\u003e: Japanese labelling lets a food this low in energy be printed as zero. Australian rules count it differently, so we call it low calorie rather than zero. The gap is tiny, but zero is not the honest word for it here.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow you eat it\u003c\/strong\u003e: Tear the top along the dotted line and push the jelly out in two or three goes. Nothing to open, nothing to wash up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains peach. Australia's allergen chart has no peach category, so peach cannot appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens, one more\u003c\/strong\u003e: It is sweetened partly with aspartame, which is a source of phenylalanine. That matters to anyone managing phenylketonuria (PKU). The Kyoho grape half also carries hydrolysed protein of a source Orihiro does not state, so it is not one to buy as vegetarian.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeople divide sharply over whether this tastes as good as the sugar version, and the ones who say it doesn't all point at the sweetener rather than the fruit. Chew each piece properly instead of swallowing it whole, and watch small children and older people while they eat it. Do not freeze them: frozen jelly goes hard, can split the film as you squeeze, and comes out in one lump.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orihiro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48313192743138,"sku":"SH-SNK-0055","price":6.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/orihiro-purun-konjac-jelly-zero-peach-grape-pack.webp?v=1789302116"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/japanese-snacks.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}