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Product information
About
The 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.
The pack reads ポッキー＜極細＞: gok-oo-boso, meaning "extra fine".
What you're getting
- About 30% narrower, not half as thick. Glico's "about 1/2" is footnoted on its own page as a cross-sectional area 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.
- More chocolate against less biscuit. 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.
- The Australian supermarkets don't have it. 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.
- It will not enjoy a Sydney summer. Glico says keep it under 28°C, and the chocolate is on the outside where the heat gets to it first.
- Allergens: contains milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
It 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.
Ingredients
The maker's ingredient list, translated from the Japanese pack. Anything after the break is an additive — the Japanese label lists those separately.
Wheat flour (produced in Japan), sugar, cacao mass, vegetable oil, whole milk powder, wholemeal wheat flour, cocoa butter, salt, yeast
emulsifier, flavouring
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Allergens
The maker declares:
- Allergens
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- Milk
- Wheat
- Soy
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Details
- Maker
- Glico
- Prefecture
- Osaka
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- Two sealed packs in one box
Our guide
How to eat it
- Chill it before you open it: the fridge, or the freezer for a shorter while. The snap is what you are buying, and cold chocolate breaks instead of bending.
- Hold a stick by the bare end, which is why Pocky exists at all. Glico left one end uncoated in 1966 so the chocolate stayed off your fingers.
- Try it against the red box rather than instead of it. Taste them side by side. That is how you tell which one you like, and nobody can do it for you.
- There are two sealed packs inside, so one can stay closed until you want it.
- Keep it below 28°C, which is Glico's instruction and not always possible in a Sydney summer. Our advice, not theirs: in hot months keep it in the fridge, which is where this one is best anyway.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
What do the numbers mean?
Counts of how many reviews mentioned each thing, not a score. One review can mention several. Every quote is our translation, with the original Japanese beneath it.
- What they like
The taste is the same as standard Pocky. The texture is completely different — the extra-fine was crunchier.
味は定番ポッキーと一緒。食感は全然違う、極細の方がポリポリでした。
mentioned in 4 of 23 reviews we readfrom mognavi
- What they like
Thinner than normal Pocky, and it feels snappier!
普通のポッキーより細くて、よりポキポキしてる感じがする！
mentioned in ~27 of 70 reviews we readfrom mognavi
- What they like
Thin, but every single stick has a solid chocolate taste — delicious.
細いけど、1本1本チョコの味しっかりで美味しい。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
Maybe the normal size is better after all.
やっぱり普通のサイズがいいかも。
mentioned in 3 of 23 reviews we readfrom mognavi
Our tip: That is the honest split, and it is why we sell both. If the biscuit is the part you want, the red box is the one.
- What they like
I feel like I taste the chocolate more.
チョコをより感じる気がする。
mentioned in ~12 of 70 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
Even frozen the pretzel doesn't go dry — you get the full crack of the chocolate and the crispness of the pretzel.
冷凍してもプレッツェルがパサパサにならず、チョコのパリッと感とプレッツェルのサクサク感が存分に感じられるポッキーでした！
from mognavi
- What they like
As for the taste, I think it's the same as the red-box Pocky.
お味の方は赤い箱のポッキーと同じだと思います。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
But for me, liking chocolate with some substance, it's too thin and leaves me wanting… though there are more sticks for it.
ただ、食べ応えのあるチョコが好きな私には細すぎて物足りない印象です…その分本数は多いのですが…
from mognavi
- What they like
I also like that you can eat them lightly, snap after snap.
ポキポキ軽く食べれるとこも気に入っています。
from mognavi
- What they like
Making them extra-fine makes the quantity feel bigger — a small happiness.
極細にすることで内容量が多く感じられてプチ幸せを感じました。
from mognavi
- What they like
The rich, slightly bitter chocolate coating is the best!
濃厚で少しビターみのあるチョココーティングが最高ー！
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
Being thin they feel like they poke the inside of your mouth, but it's extra-fine so I suppose that's that.
口の中で細いので刺さる感じがあるが、極細なのでこんなものかと。
from mognavi
- What they like
In my head the normal one is in the biscuit category and the extra-fine is in the chocolate category.
私の中で、ノーマル派クッキーカテゴリ、極細はチョコカテゴリです
from mognavi
- What they like
An extra-fine pretzel is the sort of thing you'd think exists but doesn't — fun to eat.
極細プレッツェルがほかにありそうでない商品で食べてて面白いです。
from mognavi
- What they like
I chilled it in the fridge and had it at maximum snap.
冷蔵庫で冷やしてポキポキMAXでいただきました。
from mognavi
- What they like
I like this one more than the normal one.
ノーマルよりこちらの方が好きです。
from monolog
Real quotes from Japanese review sites (mognavi, monolog), translated by us. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Glico
- Osaka
By the middle of the 2000s Pocky had gone upmarket. Glico was selling mousse-filled versions, gift tiers and regional editions, and the plain red box was starting to look like the boring one.
The thin Pocky was the answer to that, launched in 2006 under an instruction Glico describes as going back to the origin: remaking a product people had loved for decades rather than adding something to it. It sold.
So the thin one is not a spin-off. It is the plain original made thinner, at the moment Glico decided the plain original was the point.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: glico.com (opens in a new tab)
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Glico Pocky Gokuboso Thin Chocolate Sticks — 2 Packs
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