Halloween Choco Pumpkin Fries at McDonald’s Japan

McDonald’s Japan has joined the Halloween party by introducing some pumpkin flavoured treats to celebrate the scary season. The “Halloween Choco Potato” released to mark its 45th anniversary in Japan features golden McDonald’s French fries covered in a pumpkin and chocolate sauce.

This isn’t the first time McDonald’s have released chocolate covered fries in Japan. Earlier in the year, they created some huge media buzz with their “McChoco Potato”, French fries covered in a double chocolate sauce of milk chocolate and white chocolate. While they were only available for a limited time, the concept is now back for Halloween, with an all new addition of pumpkin added to the chocolate mix.

The Taste Test 

We at Japan Australia are always game to try something new, so headed to our local McDonald’s to test them out. How were they? Surprisingly very good! The flavour combination of sweet & savoury work really well together and the fries tasted really good. It wasn’t too sweet with the mild and subtle sweetness from the chocolate combining well with the saltiness of the fries, which was balanced nicely with the savoury fruity pumpkin sauce. A real winner in our books!

The Halloween Choco Pumpkin Fries come in a cute Halloween box

The sauce is served separately in a plastic snap pack sachet

When squeezed the two sauces drizzle out together

The colours and flavours of Halloween

The Halloween Choco Pumpkin Fries are available for a limited time until Halloween at McDonald’s restaurants across Japan and cost 330 yen (USD$3.28). You can also purchase them for an additional 60 yen as part of any set deal. Hurry before they vanish like a ghost from the menu forever.

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McChoco Potato Chocolate Fries 

McDonald’s Japan Website

Halloween Donuts at Mister Donut

October is the time for delicious autumn food in Japan with seasonal favourites such as pumpkin, sweet potato and chestnuts. Mister Donut Japan has joined the party with a new range of Halloween Donuts that feature pumpkin and sweet potato.

The new special limited edition Halloween range of donuts include Pon de Shu Donuts, which are cream-filled and are fun to eat as well as two types of Jack-o-Lantern donuts and a Pon de Ring Pumpkin.

The Halloween donuts went on sale in early October and will be available for a limited time in Japan. Here is a brief description of each donut for your enjoyment.

Pon de Shu Donut Murasaki Imo and Cookies & Cream 

The Pon de Shu Donut Murasaki Imo and Cookies & Cream features a murasaki imo (purple sweet potato) cream filled donut as well as a crunchy cookies & cream donut. 

Pon de Shu Donut Pumpkin and Cookies & Cream 

The Pon de Shu Donut Pumpkin and Cookies & Cream features a pumpkin cream filled donut as well as a crunchy cookies and cream donut.

Pon de Shu Donut Custard and Cookies & Cream 

The Pon de Shu Donut Custard and Cookie & Cream features a whipped custard cream filled donut as well as a crunchy cookies & cream donut.

Misudo Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Yellow 

The Misudo Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Yellow donut is made with cookie dough, which gives it a light and crunchy pastry texture. It is coated in a pumpkin glaze and perfectly captures the spirit of Halloween.

Misudo Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Chocolate 

The Misudo Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Chocolate donut is also made with cookie dough and features both a white and milk chocolate coating giving it the appearance of a mask.

Pon de Pumpkin 

The Pon de Pumpkin donut is a limited edition Pon de Ring just for Halloween that has a pumpkin glaze and pumpkin seed topping.

The donuts come in a cute Halloween box, which is a great idea. Here are a few pictures from my recent taste test. I hope you enjoy them and Happy Halloween from Japan!

 
Mister Donut Japan Website 

McDonald’s Japan Halloween Burger

McDonald’s Japan has joined the club by releasing a black burger for Halloween. Hot on the heels of the recent Black Kuro Burger from Burger King Japan comes the new Ika Sumi Burger from McDonald’s.

McDonald’s own dark burger is just in time for Halloween. The burger is called the “Ika Sumi Burger” or Squid Ink Burger, and is its Goth burger to rival that of Burger King.

They have also released a new chicken burger which features Camembert cheese, and a new McFlurry with pumpkin sauce.

Here is a brief description of each Halloween menu item.

The Ika Sumi Burger (Squid Ink Burger) 

The Ika Sumi (Squid Ink) Burger features two beef patties, cheddar cheese, and crispy fried onions, with a special yellow smoky & spicy Chipotle sauce. The burger also contains a black squid ink sauce. All this yumminess is contained within buns dyed with black sesame seeds. The black for Halloween is meant to represent a black witch, which plays mischief on the burger.

You can pick one up at your local McDonald’s Japan restaurant for 370 yen (USD$3.40).

Halloween Ika Sumi (Squid Ink) Burger

The Camembert Chicken Burger 

The Camembert Chicken Burger is the second Halloween burger and features a chicken fillet, lettuce and creamy white Camembert cheese sauce. All within standard white buns. Very scary! The white of the burger (buns and cheese sauce) is meant to represent a white ghost, with the burger dressed up in a white ghost costume.

This burger also sells for 370 yen (USD$3.40).

Halloween Camembert Chicken Burger

Pumpkin Oreo McFlurry 

The third item on the Halloween menu is the Pumpkin Oreo McFlurry. It features pumpkin sauce in the regular oreo cookies & cream vanilla ice-cream Oreo McFlurry. You can try it for 276 yen (USD$2.55).

Halloween Pumpkin Oreo McFlurry

The Taste Test 

Of course, we had to give one of these a taste. It is almost Halloween after all. We headed to our local McDonald’s and ordered a Squid Ink Burger. I know what you are all asking. How did it taste? Well…..it was pretty good. The burger looks awful, but tastes just like a regular McDonald’s burger. The first thing that hits you is the smell of the fried onions as you open up the box. The ika sumi sauce tasted alright and wasn’t too overpowering. The burger had a good spiciness to it due to the Chipotle sauce. The buns were a slight disappointment. Yes, they were dark, but I wouldn’t call them black. Maybe a dark shade of brown is a better description.

Overall, I enjoyed the experience, but it is not something that I would be ordering again.

McDonald’s Halloween menu will be available until the last week of October.

Halloween Ika Sumi (Squid Ink) Burger Set

Special Halloween Box for the Ika Sumi Burger

The black or as I say dark brown buns of the burger

A peep inside the burger

McDonald’s Japan Website

Mister Donut Hello Kitty Halloween Donuts

October is the time for delicious autumn food and snacks and Mister Donut has joined the party with a new range of Hello Kitty Halloween Donuts. This is yet another collaboration between Mister Donut and Hello Kitty after they released a range of popular donuts back in April.

The special edition Hello Kitty Halloween Donuts come in either pumpkin or strawberry flavours. They include a Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Pumpkin, Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Strawberry, Strawberry Ghost Whipped Cream, Pumpkin Old Fashion, Pumpkin Whipped Cream French Cruller, and Pon de Pumpkin.

You can pick up a limited edition Hello Kitty special Halloween box set of seven donuts with a cute Hello Kitty stuffed toy in witches outfit for 1000 yen (USD$10) while stocks last.

Hello Kitty Special Halloween Box

The Hello Kitty Halloween Donuts went on sale on September 25 and will be available for a limited time in Japan.

Mister Donut Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Pumpkin 

The Mister Donut Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Pumpkin (¥126) features a cute Hello Kitty style Jack-o-lantern face with Hello Kitty’s trade mark pink bow. The pink bow is made from white chocolate and is very tasty.

Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Pumpkin Donut

Mister Donut Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Strawberry 

The Mister Donut Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Strawberry (¥126) features a cute Hello Kitty style Jack-o-lantern face with Hello Kitty’s trade mark pink bow. The donut is hard and crispy with a sweet strawberry topping.

Jack-o-lantern Hello Kitty Strawberry Donut

Mister Donut Ghost Whipped Cream 

The Mister Donut Ghost Whipped Cream (¥147) is a light fluffy donut filled with whipped cream and coated with strawberry flavoured chocolate. This was out favourite of all the Halloween Hello Kitty donuts.

Ghost Whipped Cream Donut

Pumpkin Old Fashion 

The Pumpkin Old Fashion (¥136) is an old fashioned style donut dipped in pumpkin chocolate and topped with sprinkles.

Pumpkin Old Fashion Donut

Pumpkin Whipped Cream French Cruller 

The Pumpkin Whipped Cream French Cruller (¥147) contains pumpkin whipped cream and is coated in pumpkin chocolate and topped with coloured sprinkles. This one was the strongest pumpkin tasting donut out of the lot.

Pumpkin Whipped Cream French Cruller Donut

Pon de Pumpkin 

The Pon de Pumpkin (¥136) is one of Mister Donut’s signature donuts with its chewy mochi like texture. It is coated with pumpkin chocolate and topped with coloured sprinkles.

Pon de Pumpkin Donut

Mister Donut Hello Kitty Halloween Donuts

Mister Donut Halloween Box

Check out my video below about the Hello Kitty Halloween Donuts on my YouTube Channel

Read about more Halloween Snacks in Japan

Halloween Snacks in Japan

Autumn is one of the best times of year in Japan for seasonal food and drink. Some of the seasonal delicacies include kabocha (Japanese pumpkin) kuri (chestnuts) and satsumaimo (sweet potato). During the summer Japan Australia wrote about some of the summer snacks that were available in Japan. Now it’s Autumn and time for those Autumn Halloween snacks that have been making an appearance. Every Halloween in Japan special versions of popular snacks are produced with jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, witches and wizards just some of the cute Halloween designs that can be found.

Some of our favourite Halloween Snacks have been:

Pumpkin Pudding Kit Kat 

A special edition of Kit Kat just for Halloween. This one taste just like a sweet pudding with a hint of Japanese pumpkin.

Pumpkin Pudding Kit Kat

Pumpkin Pudding Kit Kat Close up

Angel Pie 

Angel Pie is a popular Japanese snack that consists of two small round cakes with marshmallow filling all covered in chocolate. They remind me of the wagon wheels we have back in Australia.

Halloween Angel Pie

Koala no March Chocolate 

A special Halloween version of Koala no March featuring our favourite Koala in cute Halloween costumes. These bite size koala shaped cookies have a sweet chocolate filling inside and are just so cute!

Halloween Koala no March

Kinoko no Yama and Takenoko no Sato 

Two of our all-time favourite Japanese snacks taste just the same, but come in special Halloween packaging. Konoko no Yama literally means "mushroom mountain" and these snacks are mushroom shaped biscuits with a chocolate top. Takenoko no Sato literally means "bamboo shoot village" and these snacks look just like little bamboo shoots topped with chocolate.

Halloween Kinoko no Yama & Takenoko no Sato

Halloween Konoko no Yama

They look just like little mushrooms

Halloween Takenoko no Sato

Takenoko no Sato Chocolate

Toppo 

Toppo is like a reverse Pocky! A biscuit stick with the topping on the inside. This is a special Halloween version of Toppo.

Halloween Toppo

Krispy Kreme Japan 

Krispy Kreme released some Halloween donuts called Krispy Skremes! They include the Caramel Halloween Jack, Orange Chocolate Spider and Purple Potato Mont Blanc.

Krispy Skremes!

Caramel Halloween Jack

Orange Chocolate Spider

Purple Potato Mont Blanc

Which of these would you like to try? Please leave your answer in the comments below.