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Glico Japanese Pocky Chocolate Sticks 2 Packs

Thin 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.

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Why we say this

Japan's patent office registered the shape of a Pocky stick as a three-dimensional trademark in July 2025.

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Product information

About

Thin 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 Japanese-made Pocky, or the one you remember from Japan.

The pack reads ポッキーチョコレート: pok-kee choco-rey-to.

What you're getting

  • The recipe changed in September 2025, 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.
  • Chill it before you eat it. 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.
  • It will not enjoy a Sydney summer. 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.
  • Two sealed packs inside, not one open tray, so one can go in a bag while the other stays shut.
  • Allergens: contains milk, wheat and soy. No ingredient on the list names the soy: it sits inside an ingredient the list does not break down, so this allergen line is the only place it shows. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.

It 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.

Ingredients

Wheat flour (produced in Japan), sugar, cacao mass, vegetable oil, whole milk powder, wholemeal wheat flour, malt extract, cocoa butter, fermented butter, salt, yeast

emulsifier, flavouring

For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.

Allergens
Contains
  • Milk
  • Wheat
  • Soy

For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.

Details
Maker
Glico · Osaka
Made in
Japan
Net contents
Two sealed packs in one box — Glico does not publish a stick count

Our guide

How to eat it

Good to know

  • Put the box in the fridge before you open it, or the freezer for a shorter while: the chocolate goes hard and snaps rather than softening onto your fingers. The pack does not tell you this.
  • Hold a stick by the bare end. Glico left that end uncoated in 1966 so the chocolate stays off your fingers, and it is why a box works passed around a table rather than eaten alone.
  • There are two sealed packs inside, so one can stay closed until you want it.
  • Keep it below 28°C, which is Glico's own instruction and is not always possible in a Sydney summer. Our advice, not theirs: in hot months keep it in the fridge.
  • If it arrives in summer looking dusty or greyish rather than glossy, that is bloom: the cocoa butter has melted and re-set on the surface. It got warm on the way. It is safe to eat and the texture will have suffered.

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The maker

Where it comes from

  • Glico
  • Osaka

Glico spent years trying to sell a chocolate-coated version of Pretz, its thin baked wheat stick, and kept running into the same problem: the chocolate came off on your fingers. The fix arrived in 1966, when a developer left one end of the stick bare. There's somewhere to hold it. That is the entire product, and it went on sale as the world's first stick chocolate.

The name is onomatopoeia. Pocky comes from pokin: the sound the stick makes when it snaps.

The recipe was rebuilt in September 2025, the first change in ten years and the sixtieth year of the product. Glico went back through more than a hundred raw materials, took out the shortening and the raising agent, put Japanese wholemeal flour and fermented butter into the biscuit, and re-blended the cacao from more than thirty origins. It is a simpler ingredient list than the one before it, which was the stated point.

Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: glico.com (opens in a new tab)