Soft and chewy and delicious.

Picked these up at Lion D’or.  They’re great. Really rich chocolate taste, and a nice bit of white chocolate inside. So very yummy.

I love nashi, and I love chu-hi, but this was cloyingly sweet.  It was like sugar sugar sugar, and not really nashi-tasting at all.  It was… um… however much chu-hi costs at convenience stores? (shrug)

These spicy chicken karaage potato chips have a slight bbq taste, as well as the chicken taste.

These were 105yen at 7-11.  Pretty average, but good for fried chicken flavoured chips.  As good as you can expect for 105yen from 7-11, I guess…

Potato Chips are made of potato... so of course they taste of potato? But the bacon is perfect.

I saw these at my local Lion D’or today for 168yen.  I <3 special edition stuff, and also autumn stuff, and also bacon stuff, sooooo yeah. The bacon reminds me of some Smoky Bacon potato chips I used to have when I’d visit my dad when I was in elementary school, so way back in the early 90s.  It’s not as strong as those ones were, but it’s subtle and delicious.

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Summery tasting, and the colour of soap!

Ramune is a sweet, fizzy drink that is popular in Japan in summer. It comes in a glass bottle with a marble sealing it which rattles around while you try to drink etc.  These limited edition Kit-Kat have been around most of the summer. They’re pretty shockingly green! The colour of soap! But they don’t taste like soap!

And they have a strong smell! Of ramune!  And they taste like ramune!  It’s bizarre! That never happens!  ￥292 at Lawson.

Kit-Kat Sports Drink Flavour, supporting pro-soccer in Asia.

In my ongoing quest to document bizarre friggin’ Kit-Kats from around the country, I came across this offering in my local Lawson.  They’re allegedly “Sports Drink” flavoured, and are allegedly in support of the JFA Dream Asia Project, and soccer in Asia generally.

My initial image of these is that they were going to taste of Pocari Sweat, but upon tasting, that’s not entirely true. Turns out they actually taste more like Aquarius. Aquarius-flavoured Kit-Kat. It’s bizarre, but delicious.

Promotional Gimmick Pringles AHOY

I saw these the same time I saw the previously mentioned Cheese Potato Pringles.  For ￥128 at Lawson, there’s really no harm in giving them a go, yes?

They’re good. They’re not BBQ, and there’s not really anything chicken about them, but they sort of give me a feeling of uh… phở, or thai red curry. There’s a little bit of a vinegary taste, but not a sour kick, it just brings a bit of sweetness out of the other spices. You know what I mean? I can’t explain well. Oh god how did this get here, I am not good with food.

I don't know what "Rock The Floor" is supposed to mean...

Bought these at Lawson for ￥128.  Rock the Floor? They’re not that rockin’.  Cheese Potato? Well, they ARE made of potato, and they are cheesy, but it’s really just the same cheese flavour they always use. It’s mild here, though, not overpowering CHEEEEEEEEEZE like it sometimes is.  They’re good, give them a shot, I guess.

The gas meter outside my apartment.

The other day, I was washing some dishes.  I had a water bottle I was trying to de-stink, by running crazy hot water through it until the soapy whatnots went away.  While the hot water was pouring into the bottle, I was puttering around the kitchen doing other things.  A few minutes later, when I went to retrieve the bottle, I was shocked to find that the water in the bottle and coming from the tap was ice cold.  “What the hell? This is supposed to be super hot!”

Just then, the phone rang!  “Hello?”

“This is the gas company! Do you have a problem?”

“… come again?”

“We get signal! Main screen turn on! Your gas is working okay?”

“Well now that you mention it, I don’t know.”

“What were doing? Filling tub? Washing dishes?”

“Yes, that second one.”

“Ah, a problem you have indeed!”

I had to go out to the meter, and he had me push buttons and read little letters in the dark. Eventually, the angry flashing red light that had been there originally disappeared.  “There! Your gas is fixed.”

“I… uh… okay!”

“Thanks for choosing Tokai Gas.” <click>

I don’t know what the problem was, what I did, or anything. It was a boring-to-read-but-weird-to-experience thingie.