Category: kit kat

Today it’s…

Intense Roast Soybean.

This came as a box of 12 minis again from Tokyo Narita Airport. The box says they are Tokyo Limited flavour. Strange that I never found any around Tokyo at all.

Anyway, with a name like Intense Roast Soybean, that got me a bit excited. Intense! Soybean! Intense! Ha. Are they really calling the Kit Kat intense? That is a bit exciting to me.

Opening the package up… finally, a milk chocolate kit kat! I was quite excited to finally have something not white chocolate. The smell was certainly the milk chocolate, but the “roast” in the title came through. More like some roast, burnt, grain or seed than soybean.

Eating it presented the same experience. The roast flavour was the dominant flavour, and again, like a roasted seed or grain. I am not sure the soybean flavour was evident to me. Miso and soy sauce for me had a bit more of the experience. What this kit kat presented was actually a really tasty roasty milk chocolate kit kat. It was like the wafer was roasted in a way.

I really really like this one. It is not intense, or at all strange I don’t think, but really delicious. Maybe is the fact I haven’t had a milk chocolate kit kat in a long time, but this was good. Not very sweet at all, so a whole box of these would be easy to eat.

Taste: 4 / 5

Strangeness: 2 / 5

Today is the one everyone is waiting for…

Wasabi Kit Kat.

These were the ones I was on the lookout for in Japan. The idea of a wasabi Kit Kat just sounded too out there not to be ace. But I had no luck finding them in my travels. That was until that fateful day flying home where I found them in the airport. I bought two boxes as I knew these would be, if not popular, the ones people would be most curious about.

The box says they are Tamaruya-honten Wasabi. I think Tamaruya-honten is a brand or wasabi manufacturer, so this is another team up (like the kinda suspect aloe yoghurt kit kat). And this is limited to the Shizuoka Kanto district. They must like their wasabi there.

When you open up you get the nice green wasabi kit kat staring at you. Another white chocolate based kit kat. The smell is a hint of wasabi… not overpowering, but you can definitely smell it.

But the taste… I have given this one to a few friends already and the reaction is usually the same. They eat and look at you and say “wasabi? really”. The a few seconds go by. Then that wasabi taste hits. Pretty strongly. There is absolutely no mistaking it that it is a wasabi kit kat.

There isn’t any of the heat, but that horseradish taste hits. And I like it. The taste does hang around a bit too long, but it is probably exactly what you think a wasabi kit kat will taste like. Is it my favourite? Nah. But is it unique? Oh yeah. I am sure this will be a polarising one.

Taste: 3.5 / 5

Strangeness: 4.5 / 5

Dipping into the bag tonight gives us…

Strawberry Cheesecake Kit Kat

“Really?” I am sure you are asking. “Strawberry Cheesecake?!”. I almost wasn’t going to buy these as they aren’t particularly strange. But they ain’t here in Oz, so of course I would bring some back.

The box says they are a Yokohama special. They came from the airport on the way out so it is kinda cheating. But that is cool… I will take Kit Kats however I can get ’em.

Yet another white chocolate based kit kat. Enough already! This could have been normal chocolate, but I guess white chocolate makes a little more sense. But I was a bit worried how sweet this might be.

You can see that the colour is just white. No nice pink colour for strawberry, just plain old white. I guess that is the cheesecake influence. It certainly smelled quite strongly of strawberry.

The taste was certainly strawberry. There was a hint of cheesecake, and maybe that added to the overall sweetness, but if it was simply called strawberry then it wouldn’t have surprised me.

Overall a nice desert Kit Kat. Certainly tasty. Not my favourite Kit Kat… I certainly prefer the more different flavours, and a little less sweet if possible, but I could definitely eat a box of these. Well I will be eating a box of them.

Taste: 3.5 / 4

Strangeness: 1.5 / 5

Two Kit Kats tonight. Another dive into the Kit Kat bag produced…

Aloe Yoghurt Kit Kat

This was the first strange flavour I found. I happened to wander into a supermarket in Kyoto and found a bag full of these. That’s more like it! A bag full!

On the wrapper it has the initials TBC which I found out later from Ayako was a cosmetics brand. Kit Kats made in conjunction with a cosmetics brand? Hhhmmm. But I have had aloe before… aloe drinks are not uncommon, and I have drunk some with chunky bits. So while I know the idea of eating aloe would be strange, I knew kinda what I was in for. But I guess it is still a strange proposition in a way.

Yet another white chocolate based Kit Kat. I can’t imagine aloe in normal chocolate so I was thankful for that. You can see the colour is just pretty white. It has a fair off white colour getting close to creamy.

Eating it I get the hint of yoghurt, but it is the aloe that jumps right out. It is definitely the dominant taste. And again, while I know aloe taste, I can’t say this was that awesome. I didn’t not like it, but it was pretty sweet. And boy, the aloe taste hangs around for ages. So much so that I can’t say I was the enamoured with these in the end. I didn’t mind while I was eating it, but the aloe taste lingered too long for my liking.

Bummer I found a whole packet of these and not some other flavours. Oh well. Any wacky flavour is OK by me.

Taste: 2.5 / 5

Strangeness: 3.5 / 5

I have actually been pretty slow getting into my Kit Kats. It has been quite hectic getting home and I have just wanted to put the feet up and savour them. Well, I dug my hand in the bag and pulled out…

Miso Kit Kat

I can’t profess to be a miso expert. My knowledge is mainly from miso soup and miso based ramen. So I won’t be an expert on how this lives up to its heritage. But I can comment on the kit kat.

I found this one in Takayama. I am pretty sure that the miso flavoured variety is from that district… not necessarily Takayama, but that area. It came in another mail pack. I wish I just could have found the big boxes! Anyway…

Another white chocolate based kit kat. That seems to be the go. To be honest I am not sure why. It certainly highlights the sweetness… maybe the regular chocolate flavour messes with the flavours too much.

As you can see, the wafer is pretty stock standard. But how does it taste? Good. Great in fact. Not in a strange way at all. It reminds me of the Soy Sauce flavour (which I will properly review later). You think it might be funky, but it isn’t. In some ways that is a disappointment, but it means that I am more than happy to polish off the few that I have.

The taste for me was kind of a caramel/maple kind of flavour. A deep, sweet taste. It tastes like a regular chocolate might. In many respects it is less strange than the citrus one since they are flavours you wouldn’t normally associate with chocolate, whereas this tastes fairly natural. If you are looking for strange, this isn’t for you. But for tasty? For sure.

I think I need to have some miso ramen.

Taste: 4/5

Strangeness: 2/5