Forum - View topicINTEREST: Japan Debuts World's 1st 'Sushi Kit Kat' Confections
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phia_one
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Pretty clever. It never amazes me just how many Kit Kat flavors are in Japan.
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Mr. Oshawott
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Thank goodness these Sushi Kit Kats aren't actually fish-flavored, or else it would have an unappealing taste.
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mangaka-chan
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Darn it! So the "sushi" Kit Kat is a limited time item? I wanted to buy some and give them to my coworkers to try when I go to Japan in March.
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Hoppy800
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Great presentation, However, does it taste good?
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zrnzle500
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If I were a patissier, I'm not sure how proud I would be working at that store. "I'm a patissier. -Neat. What sort of stuff do you make? -Stuff with Kit-Kats -Oh..." They've certainly done a good job but Kit-Kats ain't exactly high-brow.
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Hikarunu
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They not using the real sushi ingredients. Rice is substituted with puffed rice which is so normal with chocolate. White chocolate, raspberry, Hokkaido melon and mascarpone cheese. All this ingredients goes well with chocolate.
Thats not how patissier work. They dont care what base the food come from. Same goes for chef too. They even work on leftover food found in fridge so people would appreciate it. Thats a respectable job. You basically belittled patissier job just because they use KitKat as work subject. |
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championferret
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well to be fair, there arent that many at once. Most of the weird flavours people hear about are only sold for a few months, or only available in certain locations. I currently live in Japan and in your average store there's not really much kitkats at all - just regular, white and macha with seasonal ones (like pumpkin for halloween) now and then. Actually, back home in Australia there are more kitkat varieties in the store that are constant. Japan doesn't have a constant caramel, marble choc, salted caramel, or cookies and creme flavour like we do, nor does it have the chunky ones. (of course if you did a cross-country trip and bought one of the regional kitkats from every airport/station in japan, there'd probably be a lot of different ones, I'm just talking about what you can find in a supermarket in one place on an average day.) I imagine this new store will have a bunch of exclusive flavours though- will have to give it a visit when I go to Tokyo next week. Sounds fun. Last edited by championferret on Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:50 am; edited 1 time in total |
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zrnzle500
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If they can't help it or it tastes better that way, they'll use leftovers. But do I want to go to a restaurant that consistently does so when they have the time and money to use fresh stuff (aside from when it is better not to)? Again, they've certainly done a good job here, and you wouldn't want one that is to fussy about the material that they miss out on good stuff that can be made, but I don't want one that doesn't give a shit about what it is made from at all. |
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Chrno2
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I'm like the Kit Kat connoiseur at my job. So I'm always buying different flavors off ebay. So I guess I'll be checking for these now. Of course I'm sure they're going to cost because they're special.
Did you know a case of wasabi Kit Kat can run you $20 for a small case of 12? Another cool piece of Kit Kat trivia is that US Kit Kat and Japan's have different tastes. Kit Kat in Japan is produced by Nestle while US is Hershey. Most people that have eaten the Kit Kat candies from Japan found they taste better but it depends on what you like. I got some "sake" flavored ones at home and at work. The alcohol is pretty mild but it's there. I could only find sellers willing to part with a pack. Surprisingly, I was actually able to find a seller that sells them in the economy sized bags of 12 (2-bar) pieces (like in the photo). Most bags sell 12 mini pieces. He sells them 2 bags per package. So if you were to order 2 bags you'd be getting 4 packages of 12 mini bars. The one that's been on the market at Japanese stores in the US is the "Molesson" brand. It's like a almond and cranberry sprinkled on top of the bar. These mini bars come 1 single packaged bar for a total of 12 to a pack. They're a little bigger than the Green Tea, Strawberry, Sake, or Chocolate mini. But sushi??? This is a strange combination. |
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Zumie
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I don't mind the melon and the raspberry- but the cheese?? Cheese flavoured kitkat?? That- is an abomination!! WHY! WHY curse us with such a beast?!
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leafy sea dragon
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I have a hunch they already made fish-flavored Kit Kats. I mean, there's a wasabi-flavored one sitting on our coffee table just several meters away from where I'm sitting. They'll go weird distances for these flavors.
Kit Kats have a limited-edition system in Japan, where they'll release a flavor and remove it a few months later. Besides a few core flavors (and some of them ARE unusual, like my aforementioned wasabi one), none of them are ever intended to stay on shelves for long no matter how well they sell. This system has worked out wonderfully in Japan. There are a lot of people in Japan who have made it their personal goal to eat as many Kit Kat flavors as possible, and they'll keep their ears to the ground for new Kit Kats so they can eat them. In a way, you see that with Doritos in the United States too, though to a lesser extent.
Well, I like chocolate and I like puffed rice (I'm a sucker for Rice Krispies treats), so I'm sure I'd like it.
Well, the Kit Kat people are paying this patissier to make Kit Kat dishes like these. By the way, you'd be surprised at what dessert chefs can make out of common supermarket stuff. I went to this place that had doughnuts made from Cap'n Crunch and other ones made from Golden Grahams, and they are amazing. If anything, I feel that unless this patissier was told specifically to do so, he's not making the best use out of Kit Kats because he's just putting them on top of sweetened puffed rice. Maybe it's because I've watched a lot of Chopped, but I feel what makes a good chef is the ability to make something tasty out of anything. And I'll bet this fellow likes a good challenge.
What's wrong with cheese in sweet foods? Never had a cheese danish or cheesecake? Both of those run on cream cheese, but still, mascarpone cheese is also a super-soft and super-mild cheese and lends itself to dessert well too, like in cannoli (though ricotta is more common). |
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zrnzle500
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No doubt about all of that. I work next to the bakery section and the cake decorators and/or pastry chefs do good work with all sorts of stuff. And some of the customers think they can do it 
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penguintruth
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Japan, you might be overthinking the Kit Kat.
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