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Lotte Koala's March Chocolate Filled Biscuits 48g
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Made byLotteTokyo, Japan
Lotte Koala's March Chocolate Filled Biscuits 48g
A hollow little biscuit shaped like a koala, with chocolate sealed inside it.
Regular price $5.12AUD
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- Tracked to your door with Australia Post.
Why we say this
On sale in Japan continuously since March 1984, and relaunched with a reblended recipe in March 2026. Japan's Anniversary Association has registered 3 March as Koala's March Day.
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Product information
About
A hollow little biscuit shaped like a koala, with chocolate sealed inside it. The shell is crisp, and because the chocolate sits inside rather than on top, it stays off your fingers. Buy it if you want a small sweet to share or hand to a child; if you are after a proper chocolate biscuit, this is the wrong one, the chocolate is a centre, not a thick layer.
This is the 48g box, made in Japan.
On the pack: コアラのマーチ, koala no maachi, "Koala's March".
What you're getting
- The shell is baked hollow and the chocolate is injected afterwards.
- Each biscuit has a koala printed on it, picked from hundreds of designs.
- Lotte reblended the recipe in March 2026: it says the cacao now carries more depth.
- Lotte says the biscuit was reworked in the same renewal, and is baked crisper and more toasty.
- Allergens: contains wheat, gluten, egg, milk and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
Ingredients
Sugar, wheat flour, palm oil, cocoa mass, starch, shortening, lactose, whole milk powder, liquid egg, cocoa powder, whey powder, salt, cream powder, cocoa butter
calcium carbonate, raising agent, trehalose, emulsifier (soy derived), caramel colour, seasoning (amino acids etc.), 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
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- Wheat
- Gluten
- Egg
- Milk
- Soy
- May contain
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None declared — the pack's labels name no shared-equipment allergen.
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.
Nutrition
| Per box (48 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 1054 kJ (252 kcal) | 2197 kJ (525 kcal) |
| Protein | 2.4 g | 5.0 g |
| Fat | 13.8 g | 28.8 g |
| Carbohydrate | 29.7 g | 61.9 g |
| Sodium | 110 mg | 230 mg |
From the Japanese pack's nutrition panel — not the Australian nutrition information panel. The Japanese pack gives no saturated fat or sugars figure. The per-100 g column, the kJ figures and sodium (from the pack's salt equivalent, 食塩相当量, ÷ 2.54) are our calculation.
Details
- Maker
- Lotte · Tokyo
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One 48 g box — Lotte does not publish a biscuit count
Our guide
How to eat it
Good to know
- Ready to eat straight from the box — but chill it first if you can. A spell in the fridge or freezer firms up the sealed chocolate.
- Look at each biscuit before you eat it. Every design is printed as often as every other, so repeats inside one box are normal and finding a particular koala is luck.
- Keep it somewhere cool and out of direct sun. It is not heatproof: in a hot car the chocolate will soften inside the shell.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
Your hands don't get dirty, so it's perfect for a quick nibble.
手が汚れないので、ちょっとつまむのに最適です。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they like
It's light so you can pop them in one after another, and it's fun to look at what picture each one has as you eat.
軽いのでぱくぱく食べれるし1個1個どんな絵かなと見て食べるのが楽しいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Ridiculously tasty. But it's gone in no time.
めちゃくちゃ美味しい。でもすぐなくなる。
from monolog
Our tip: It is a 48 g box — small, and it goes fast. If there are more than two of you, get two.
- Good to know
The outer biscuit carries a slight saltiness, and the chocolate inside is a touch restrained in its sweetness.
外側のクッキー部分は少し塩味を感じさせ、内側のチョコレートは、やや甘さを控え目にしており
from monolog
- What they like
We eat them showing each other the pictures, my child and I.
子供と絵柄を見せ合いながら食べています。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It's a shame the amount inside has shrunk compared to before.
以前に比べ内容量が減ったのは残念です
from monolog
- What they like
The amount is just right, and it's delicious chilled.
量もちょうど良くて冷やすとおいしい。
from monolog
- What they like
Eaten frozen, the chocolate chills nicely and it's twice as good.
冷凍して食べた方がチョコレートがいい感じに冷やされて倍美味しくなる。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Unlike when I was a child I only eat proper things now, so it isn't all that tasty.
子供の頃と違ってちゃんとした物しかもう食べてないので大して美味しくはないですね
from monolog
- What they like
The standard of standards! Koala's March is a snack you can't go wrong picking.
定番中の定番のお菓子！選んで買って間違いないお菓子コアラのマーチ！
from monolog
Real quotes from the review sites named on the cards. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Lotte
- Tokyo
Koala's March has been made since March 1984, and from the start each little biscuit carried a printed koala. There were twelve designs then. There are five hundred now.
What happened in between was not planned. Around 1988 shoppers began giving names to the koalas they thought were rare: the eyebrow koala, with what looks like a brow, and the appendix koala, drawn with an injury. The names spread by word of mouth, and Lotte only gave them official ones in 2003. The company's own account of it is blunt: it was the customers who made us see what the brand was worth.
One correction it makes to its own folklore, though: the eyebrow is not an eyebrow at all. Lotte says it is the frown of a koala straining to blow a trumpet.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: lotte.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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