Japan Knows How to Make Interesting Kit Kats
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Earlier today my dad and I did some grocery shopping at Global Foods. It's a local market in STL that sells goods from all over the world. They have aisles for many different countries. They will put similar food items with countries near each other. The store isn't too big, but it has a bunch of cool stuff.
I went today because I wanted to get some things from the Japanese aisle. I grabbed a few things from other spots, but the Japanese aisle was my main focus. They had a bunch of stuff I had been searching for for quite a while. They had the 2x spicy chicken Buldak ramen. I found ponzu and gyoza sauce. I got a recipe for miso soup and I needed a dashi starter, which they also had. I got some matcha ice cream sandwiches I had seen and was craving. But my main goal was to get some of the cool Kit Kat flavors they do in Japan.
Japan takes its chances with their Kit Kat choices, and I was bound and determined to try some. I was able to find their Kit Kat spot and grabbed a few bags. The two I decided to get were the strawberry and chocolate orange flavors. As soon as I got home from working out, the Kit Kats were the first two things I tried. I went with the chocolate orange ones first. These were wonderful. I am a big fan of citrus flavored things, and when you add chocolate to it, forget about it, I'm going to be a fan. I think what made me really like these was how strong the orange was in the candy. You can really taste it. It is forefront and it is very noticable. I took one bite and said, to no one, "this will do just fine". I loved it. It was like eating one of those chocolate oranges that you have to crash against a table to break into pieces. I don't know what I was expecting, but this flavor exceeded any expectations I may have had. When I try something that claims to have orange flavor in it, I really want to taste it. This is ever present in these Japanese orange chocolate Kit Kats.
The other flavor, strawberry, was equally as good. I bit into it expecting to taste mostly chocolate, but the strawberry is definitely there. You cannot miss it. I was hesitant before my first bite because I thought it may be too sweet, and have an almost white chocolate flavor. It did not.This was a quality Kit Kat that happened to be strawberry flavored.
I like Kit Kats because they're light and airy. The chocolate is there and the wafer lends a nice texture contrast. I do enjoy mint chocolate Kit Kats and I like their dark chocolate variety. But some other flavors are misses. The glazed donut one is no good. The birthday cake one is far too sweet. The white chocolate one doesn't need to exist. But I think those are no good for me because they're too sweet and I don't really get the flavors they're promising. But these Japanese ones are dynamite. They offer the actual flavor that they're advertising. And that flavor hits strongly, as it should.
So, if you want a good quality Kit Kat that isn't an original one, go buy some of the Japanese varietals, they are pretty damn tasty.
Ty
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