Showing posts with label japan candy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
April 2014 Taste For Sweets Review
I got my second month of Taste For Sweets, so let's see where this relatively new subscription box is going.
Taste for Sweets is $16 a month and features a variety of sweets and snacks from around the world. I was disappointed to find that there was no information card this month to tell me where stuff came from. Apparently it was just a shipping mishap with a few of the boxes, but it was still missing, so I'm going to have to make educated guesses.
I'm assuming these are Japanese? They're little cone-shaped biscuits covered in chocolate at the end, and I wolfed them down pretty quickly.
This is like an Aero bar inside a mock ice-cream cone. It was really good (and I'm guessing also from Japan.
These are probably Turkish. They're a wafer stick filled with chocolate hazelnut cream. I was very excited to find that they're vegetarian and have no eggs! They also taste amazing. The hazelnut tastes almost fruity, but in a really good way.
This is definitely Japanese. It's a very thin biscuit with green tea cream in the middle. It definitely had eggs in it, but I definitely ate it anyway. Sorry factory farm chickens! The bottom half almost tasted like a meringue, but the green tea flavor is too faint for my liking. Still, very good.
I've had these before a few times. They're an Indian biscuit that's popular in a few middle-eastern countries. If my memory serves me, they aren't super sweet, but still pretty decent (especially with tea).
Oh man, I ate this without remembering the flavor too well. It's either Russian or Ukrainian (I think!), and I think it was a wafers and chocolate kind of thing. They seem to send a lot of that type of stuff.
I thought this was a repeat from last month, but it isn't. It was a really cool hazelnut chocolate. Very hazelnutty. I believe this is from Turkey.
I know this is Japanese and I remember it being good but I've got to stop eating these things blindly.
Now this was great. Like a mounds bar with milk chocolate and chocolate inside with the coconut. It's another Elvan candy from Turkey.
This was kind of meh. It's from Taiwan. It wasn't bad, but I didn't taste the taro. Is taro really that flavorless? Either way, I'm please with it because it's labeled "suitable for lacto vegetarian"! That's so cool that they do that! I don't think I've ever seen lacto or ovo vegetarian labeled stuff until this box.
I should really start taking pictures of the inner items too. This isn't a chocolate chip cookie, it's what it says. It's a chocolate cookie with chocolate chips in it. Neat! I believe this is another Japanese product.
This is an English hard candy with no artificial colors. It was pretty good! Really flavorful.
I haven't tried this yet because I suspect gelatin but can't find a thing about it online. I'll save myself the worry and just give it to my dad. It's raspberry and from Turkey, so I wish I knew the ingredients!
I really like this box (although last month was better). And it looks like they're getting ready to add a feature onto it next month, so that will be exciting!
Have you tried this box yet? Why not?
-E.S.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
April 2014 Skoshbox Review
Skoshbox is a monthly subscription box that ships for $12 a month! It is a box of candy and snacks from Japan, so it's the perfect box for me!
I love getting my Skoshbox every month! It all started as a birthday gift from my mom, and I've been hooked ever since! They are usually pretty good at mixing up what you get each month but I think that every single box I've received had at least one of these in it! The first one I had tasted like a giant cheese puff so naturally it was amazing and one of my favorites but then I got a teriyaki burger one and that was the end of it for me! This one is Cod Roe flavor soooo I don't think I'll be eating this one!!
These are mini Aero bars, I love these types of candy bars! They are the Nestle version of the Hersey Air Delights, but these flavors are strawberry and green tea! These are the perfect flavors for me because, both are my favorite flavors!
POCKY!!! Yay! I always love it when I get Pocky in my box because I love any and all of it! This package is strawberry flavored, so again perfect for me!
Wow, this has to be my favorite box I've received!! Japan has so many different flavors of KitKats that if I ever made it there I'd have to bring my own suitcase just for the KitKats is buy! I've had Oreo KitKats, strawberry KitKats, and mint ( at least that's all I can remember at the moment!) this one happens to be green tea flavored, again yay!
These are "Grandma's Sweet Shoyu Baked Senbei" I don't really have too much to say about these, I've had them in a previous box and it kinda tastes like a sweet wafer cracker if that makes sense! The point is that these are pretty good!
This is a Milk Country Candy. I sat here for a while trying to decide how I wanted to describe this to you guys and I just can't decide because it doesn't really taste like anything, don't get me wrong it is yummy it just doesn't have a lot of flavor!
These are Harvest Baked Biscuits. You had the chance of getting either caramel or cocoa and luckily enough I got caramel! I opened this package and proceded to eat all of them like crazy, they are thin and lightly coated in sugar so, they are just the right amount of sweet! Yummy!
These are Cheese Okaki Crackers. I was very scared to try these because when I opened them they didn't smell to good so, here it goes. I don't want to say these are awful but, they are pretty awful the seasoning on the outside is probably the worst part, yeah I don't like these!
These are Elise Wafer Sticks, they are a nice change to the Okaki crackers! I got white chocolate wafers and I am not disappointed, they are pretty awesome!! Excuse me while I go eat the other one!
So what do you guys think of Skoshbox? Is it too weird for you, or a box that is perfect for you? I love getting snacks from around the world, it's so much fun to see what other people from different parts of the country eat normally that "we" might think is odd, so let me know what you guys think!!
-F.M.
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