Nestlé Hokkaidō Milk White Kit Kat
This isn’t the first time I’ve found it really hard to comment on a chocolate bar. I’ve eaten the whole thing now and am sitting here wondering what I can say…
Well I might as well describe the thing. It comes in the regular boxes that Japanese Kit Kats do. It’s a standard white chocolate Kit Kat, only this time it’s made with milk from Hokkaidō! Wow!
What does that mean for us? Honestly, I don’t know. My understanding is that Nestlé change the region they obtain their milk from depending on the season, and so the taste of their bars can change in different seasons, and this season is Hokkaidō.
So that’s all well and good, but does it affect the taste? Not really…which is why I found it so hard to write about this. It really is just ordinary white chocolate coating the ordinary Kit Kat wafer. That’s all there is to it, and it’s a bit of a disappointment.
What more can I say? Just…don’t bother with this I guess, you’ll likely be as disappointed as I am right about now. Each packet has 118 calories, 1.3g Protein, 13.1g Carbohydrates and 6.8g Fat.
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November 24th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
really? I thought it tasted quite nice
November 25th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Perhaps I was overly critical. It was nice, but considering I don’t live in Asia it’s a lot of effort to get these imported, and frankly it wasn’t worth it at all. We have white chocolate Kit Kats here in England and frankly I could not tell the difference.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:11 am
hi terry,
i tried this meiji (or was it lotte?) chocolate called hokkaido five which were truffle like in that each piece is dusted with bitter cocoa powder and is truffle like in shape. the cream in the center was just amazingly ‘creamy.’ i wish you’d get your hands on it so you won’t be completely turned off by hokkaido cream.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:01 am
I’ve just looked everywhere I possibly could for it Raine, nowhere to be found…
I’ll keep looking though, thanks for the recommendation.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:53 am
hmm, i guess its making itself scarce. messaging you about it got me salivating….i zipped to the grocer’s a while ago intending to get me a pack but it’s nowhere to be found.:-( i ended up with a big bar of frey surprise citron & poivre in 55% dark chocolate instead. will let you know how it goes.:-)
November 26th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Haha I do that to myself a fair bit when re-reading parts of the site, nowhere I can go at 5:15am though…
That sounds pretty awesome, can’t wait to get your opinion on it.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Hokkaid things have ALWAYS been popular. It’s the one region of Japan that’s “natural” still and therefore has lots of farms on it. The Japanese think the milk that comes from the cows there is better than milk from anywhere else….so of course a Kitkat using Hokkaido products will be superior to anything else. ;P
I agree, I’ve had better white Kitkats.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:37 am
hey terry!
the bar i got yesterday was simply su-perb!
wonderful balance of dark chocolate richness and lemon tang. the black pepper just gave it enough kick to round out the melange of tastes. i am certainly recommending it. there’s one by swiss delice too in case you can’t find frey in your area.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Sera - I thought that was the case, my main point with this though was that it just wasn’t that great. Like you said they bigged up the fact that it was from Hokkaido, yet it made practically no difference.
Raine - That sounds really nice, I’ll take a look for those though it seems I have trouble finding just about anything you recommend.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:22 am
uh-oh. that’s too bad. hmm. over at chocoblog i was telling simon (i think it was him) about lindt excellence dark chocolate selections made from cuban, madagascar and ecuadorian cocoa beans at 55 to 75% cocoa content respectively, and i think he was able to get hold of them. maybe lindt has better distribution worldwide?
November 27th, 2007 at 6:34 am
It is indeed, after looking around I found a website that deal with Swiss chocolate and Swiss groceries in general (including Freys) but not the bar you mentioned. I have seen some of those Lindt bars around, though personally I’m still not a *great* fan of ordinary, high cocoa dark chocolate. I find it to be a little bit too overbearing for my taste buds, though I will look for those bars.
And yes you’re right, Lindt’s distribution is much better, which is perhaps one of the reasons why they’re so well known (as well as the fact that their chocolate is excellent, of course).
November 27th, 2007 at 7:22 am
terry,
i’d like to let you know that i just tried the lindt madagascar chocolate bar with 65% cocoa content and found it good, thank you very much.:-) i think i mentioned before that i am working my way up the dark choco-meter? i love dark chocolate but i think my limit would have to be 60-65%. i find 70% to be too dark, too soon. my taste buds kinda rebel at that level, i daresay.:-) about frey’s, the box on the bar i tried yesterday had a sticker on it which proclaims the distributor to be in singapore. hmmm. it figures. just the same its complete label says “surprise citron & poivre.” nothing surprising about it though in that it tasted okay to me. excellent in fact. a brand called “swiss delice” has the same flavor. maybe that brand’s more known in the uk?
November 27th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
That’s good to hear. I do remember you telling me that, and yes I have a similar problem. I think it’s something to do with the amount of sugar used, as I’ve had a 70% Cote d’Or bar that I could eat very easily, yet then had a 70% bar from Green & Black’s that was so bitter it almost tasted sour.
Swiss Delice rings a bell, but once again Google searches aren’t helping me much. It seems Singapore and Britain really are worlds apart…
November 28th, 2007 at 1:55 am
it’s okay. we don’t have green and black’s and conscious chocolate here in asia anyway. plus we don’t have that many artisanal chocolates like you do there in europe. so i guess all’s well and thank goodness we have the internet so we can tell each other about stuff we get to eat in our respective locations.
November 28th, 2007 at 6:40 am
You’re not missing out on too much with Green & Black’s anyway, and those other bars are so expensive they make it tough to warrant purchase most of the time. And yep I agree, praise the internet, still it’d be nice to try these things myself but it seems that’s not possible unless I’m flying over to Asia anytime soon.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:45 am
that’s true. meanwhile, i shall enjoy reading your posts and making comments on them whenever applicable and then when i’m worked up enough, i’m sure i’d be zipping off to the grocer’s to grab some chocolates off the shelves. fun, isn’t it?
November 29th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
It’s very fun indeed. Thanks for your comments, I appreciate them from everyone, it’s always nice to see people actually discussing things and it helps me gauge who my readers are, genders, whether they catch subtle jokes, etc. etc. and help me with future posts.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Green & Black’s chocolate has in fact been available in Singapore for a while.