Forum - View topicKee-razy Japanese Snack Products
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LordByronius
ANN Columnist
 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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I recently became addicted to Mochi Ice Cream.
They're green-tea ice cream balls wrapped in a sweetened rice patty of some sort, and they are godly. I now make excuses to drive to the Asian market which is a bajillion miles away just to get some. Share your Japanese snack favorite. And if anybody jumps up and says "POCKY!!! ^_^" I'll die. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
 Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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Mochi is the best! They have other flavors as well, such as mango, coffee, etc. I never thought you could put ice cream in sticky rice and make it taste good, but whooo! I have yet to taste a Japanese snack food that I don't like. (Has anyone seen the Japanese commercial for Mikado? It's like, some Pocky-looking thing. Anyway, it's the one with the woman in the copy room, and it's great.) Anyway, speaking of Japanese snacks, they recently had a an ice cream expo where merchants displayed their ice cream flavors, ala squid, wasabi, etc. The article can be read with pictures here: http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/1.html |
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Only japanese snack that I ever tasted vere some sort of rice cracker/cookies, that my uncle brought from Japan. They came in various tastes, wrapped in a seaweed coating. As far as I rember he said that they were quite popular there, but I don't remember their name.
As a creature that was quite unfamiliar with such thingies I was surprised that they were so tasty, a bit salty nonethles, but tasty. ^_^ |
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Gai Super Napalm
 Posts: 148 Location: Hoboken, NJ |
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what's wrong with pocky? mens pocky is delectable.
other than that I like wasabi covered peas, chocolate collon, and of course kasugai gummies. I think my favorite is the melon one, although muscat comes in a close second. Theres also these little chewy things, they have some sort of vanilla gummy stuff on the outside and fruit on the inside.. I don't know what they're called though. |
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boobooB
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MOCHI ICE CRM IS SOOO GOOD! esp the green tea one! |
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BC Anime
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i just recently bought mochi (chocolate) and it is soooo good. hopefully trader joe's will get more flavors =D
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boobooB
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Have you guys seen this site?
Its not up yet but it looks like it could be cool: http://www.japanesesnacks.com/ this is an extra =) http://www.seagull-ny.com/foods/nframe/snack.html |
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ownerizer
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well, I haven't tried any, but Pocky was pretty popular at AnimeFEST! People started paying about $10+ for a box
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boobooB
Posts: 27 |
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$10+ ?!?!? that is OUTRAGEOUS! who knew they can sell pocky at that price! |
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nagash
Posts: 280 |
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Being allergic to seafood, I avoid Japanese food like the plague. I was actually told by my Japanese teacher not to try anything I couldn't read or figure out what was in it.
I have to admit, however, that the snacks are very popular. I was at a game convention last January. The game was Kill Dr. Lucky. This was part of a tournament. There were 6 players (including myself). Just before the game, one of the girls pulled a gigantic box of strawberry Pocky out (I think it was a 100 count). It was gone in 5 minutes. She had pulled it out for her and her friend and the referee for the game wound up eating half the box. |
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