One of the great things about living in Japan is the seasonal food and drinks that come around every year, and summer in no exception. Summer 2013 in Japan has seen a great range of summer snacks hit the shelves at conbini (convenience stores) and supermarkets around the country. A few of my favourites have been:
Summer Pocky
Two new summer flavours of
Pocky came out for summer 2013. These are Tropical Pocky and Coconut Pocky. Tropical Pocky is very fruity with the Pocky stick covered in mango cream and infused with bits of pineapple. Coconut Pocky features the Pocky stick covered with chocolate and coconut. It was delicious and definitely is our favourite of the summer Pocky.
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| Coconut Pocky & Tropical Pocky |
Passionfruit / Cookies & Cream KitKat
Two new summer versions of KitKat also hit the shelves this summer. Passionfruit KitKat and Cookies & Cream KitKat. Passionfruit KitKat is very sweet and has a strong fruity passionfruit taste. Perfect for any passionfruit fan. Cookies & Cream KitKat is best eaten cold straight out of the fridge or freezer, and is very sweet and delicious. It's hard to beat our all time favourite
Matcha Green Tea KitKat but these come close.
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| Passionfruit KitKat |
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| Cookies & Cream KitKat |
Crunch Caramel & Vanilla
Crunch Caramel & Vanilla is also recommended to be beaten cold and is super sweet. It has a great texture and is very good.
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| Crunch Caramel and Vanilla |
Watermelon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Watermelon or Suika is an extremely popular summer flavour in Japan and you will find it in all sorts of things.These Watermelon Chocolate Chip Cookies are a very interesting idea and taste pretty good.
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| Watermelon Chocolate Chip Cookies |
Calbee Salty Lemon Potato Chips
These have been our favourite summer potato chip with a great lemony taste that is just perfect with a cold beer.
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| Calbee Salty Lemon Potato Chips |
Pepsi Shuwa Shuwa Cola Corn Snacks
An unusual flavour that really does taste like Pepsi with that refreshing shuwa shuwa (fizzy bubbles) feeling! They are basically Cheetos that are covered in a fizzy cola powder.
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| Pepsi Shuwa Shuwa Cola Corn Snacks |
What is your favourite Japanese Summer Snack for 2013? Please leave your answers in the comments below.
