I think, and the internet seems to back me up on this, that purple sweet potato is taro. So I was expecting that lovely unusual, cereally flavour I got with the bubble tea and was slightly disappointed. A similar flavour is there, but it is very mild. On reflection, I think I expected too much and had I not had such a craving for taro bubble tea when I looked at this biscuit, I would have found it pleasingly purply in itself.
This Kit Kat has a really appealing smell but a slight greenishness to the chocolate coating. I’m not sure exactly what sort of roasted tea the name refers to – a little googling tells me that it is a Japanese green tea that has been roasted over charcoal until it is reddish brown – but the flavour only reminds me of one thing. You know when you roast a fatty bit of beef, and the edges start to caramelise? Yeah. That flavour. Don’t get me wrong, I love that flavour, but when it feels like a Kit Kat and has a chocolaty aftertaste… well… it’s not good.
I love edamame beans and cook them all the time in salads, rice and veggie side dishes but they are at their very best when they are still in their pods and salted. I’m not sure what I expected from this little green biscuit. Something fresher maybe, greener tasting. But despite its alluring colour, it tastes very bland and sweet. Exactly like a sickly sweet white chocolate kit kat. Shame.
This little Kokutou (Okinawa black sugar) and Kinako (sweet soy powder) Kit Kat is apparently highly sought after in Japan after a two year absence so I feel lucky to have stumbled upon one. Incidentally, it was while researching this strange flavour that I learned one of the reasons why Kit Kats are so popular in Japan. The name Kit Kat sounds very close to the Japanese “Kitto Katsu” which means “surely win”, so the Japanese believe that these little biscuits are lucky. School children take them into exams for good luck. So with a whole bag ful in my cupboard I must be feeling very lucky indeed, right?
This particular lucky charm gave off an appealing treacly smell once opened and had a treacly flavour with undertones of roasted something-or-other. It had an interesting, almost savoury aftertaste and put me in mind of all sorts of toasted cerealy things. Holli, who had the other kokutou and kinako mini Kit Kat in the bag said the taste put her in mind of “something fermenty”. All in all, very unusual and I can see why it is so sought after because, if you liked it, I can’t think of anything else that combines the same taste sensations. Perhaps if you ate a toasted peanut butter and treacle sandwich while drinking Guinness?
The first Kit Kat out of the Hello Kitty lucky dip bag (yes, the picture on the bag matters) is Satsumaimo (Sweet Potato) flavour. I think this is the white fleshed variety of sweet potato, but I only have the site I bought them on to go on, so this may be total fallacy. Believe it or not, this biscuit does taste different to last year’s variety . Unfortunately, this is not a good thing. While I enjoyed last year’s one for its sweet potatoey flavour, this one tastes less like sweet potato and more… just sweet.
A new shipment has arrived from Japan. Watch this space for more weird and wonderful Kit Kats!
Despite looking exactly like a normal, unassuming kit-kat, this tastes and smells very strongly of apples…or an ester with strong appley characteristics. Perhaps the most baffling kit-kat experience yet!
I’m quite excited to have some American Kit-Kats to try. Up until now I have only had the Japanese imports to write about but the wonderful Laurence picked these up on his travels for inclusion in this little adventure. They are miniature, individually wrapped fingers. Perhaps every so slightly shorter than the British and Japanese varieties, but taller. In fact, they are probably the same height that British Kit- Kats used to be before the great snack shrinkage spread rapidly across all biscuits and confections. You know, when ‘wagon wheels’ were as big as your head and ‘milky ways’ were brown in the middle.
These Kit-Kats come in an assorted pack of dark chocolate, milk chocolate and ‘creme’. While it’s somewhat more mainstream than the Kit-Kats I have been trying up until now, I find the monochrome look of them rather pleasing and think that the mixture gives the whole bag more of a ‘box of chocolates’ feel than ‘bag of biscuits’. The dark and milk varieties were as you would expect, although with a very slight aftertaste which perhaps exposes a slight tailoring to the American taste-bud which has been ruined (as far as chocolate is concerned) by ‘Hershey’s ‘. ‘Creme’, however, is not, as I first though, another word for white chocolate. It is much simpler than that. It appears to mean a creamy taste that is rather mild and undefined. Not bad, and they make a pretty addition to the trio.
This was amazing! It tastes exactly like washing down a kit kat with a cup of jasmine tea. I am in awe.
On every level I have always found pocky much more appealing than other biscuits and these beautiful pink specimens with their love heart adorned packaging were no exception. I can never say no to a flavour of pocky I have never seen before and these don’t disappoint. Pleasingly they look exactly like the picture on the packet – something that food all too often fails to live up to – and taste smooth sweet and yogurty. Mmmm. Love in biscuit form.
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