At the request of my immature and whimsical personality only, I have decided to compile a list of my top 5 Japanese snacks. This could be used as an accompaniment to my previously written top 5 beer list, or this could also be completely ignored as the unhinged musings of a person with possibly too much time on their hands.
In a country where rice is nice and fish is everyone’s wish, it’s nice to know that snacks are also one of most Japanese people’s life hacks. In fact, a casual stroll along the snack aisle of any Japanese supermarket reveals more snack choices than there are frustrated salarymen on an overcrowded Japanese subway.
The traditional time for eating snacks in Japan is 3pm, a time that is often abided by with the precision of a Toyota factory assembly line. Having the audacity to eat any of these snacks below before 3pm may result in incurring the wrath of numerous Shinto Gods, or at least strict Japanese elders.
Without further ado.. here are my top 5 Japanese snacks:
5.Pocky – long, thin chocolate coated biscuit sticks. The ends are dipped into delicious chocolate. Around 100yen per box, so your wallet won’t need to be dipped into too far!
4.Green tea flavored Kit Kat – the confectionery version of a geisha chatting with a cheerleader at the mall. An odd scene, but the conversation flows!
3.Meiji Dark Chocolate Blocks – ridiculously reasonably priced dark chocolate. Great quality dark chocolate, the chocolate is almost as dark as my sense of humor!
2.Hichew- chewy candies with enough sugar to keep Brazil, the world’s top sugar exporter, in business for generations to come! For kids eating this, Japan quickly becomes the land of the rising fun!
1.Umaibo- meaning literally “tasty stick” it certainly lives up to its name. At 10 yen a pop, it always stays within my budget, even when my bets at Tokyo Racecourse are going as well as a Japanese policeman shooting at Godzilla…
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