Nestlé Dainagon Azuki Bean Kit Kat
I’ve reviewed an azuki bean Kit Kat in the past, and it’s a real favourite of mine, and so when I saw a couple more different bars, I just had to have them. This is a Kit Kat which utilises the usual Japanese sweet red beans, and mixes them with white chocolate.
I don’t really understand the artwork on the box, it looks like a traditional Japanese fan or something. Is it meant to mean the flavour is a traditional one? Or is there some other meaning here which has gone way over my head? Who knows.
The wrappers inside look different, instead of having the same artwork they’re instead blue and black and have a load of kanji on. I wish I could read this stuff sometimes just so I didn’t have to guess, but I assume it says something about azuki beans or whatever. Hopefully anyway.
Anyway, open the wrappers up and we have white chocolate that’s been speckled with red bits. It smells sweet, creamy and nutty, and that’s pretty much how it tastes too. Azuki bean is a flavour that’s really hard to describe, especially to someone who’s never tried it, but all I know is that I really like it. It’s a little nutty, but at the same time it’s a little bit…different, for lack of a better word.
Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed these. They’re sweet and nutty and once or twice I caught a hint of salt too. If you’ve ever been interested in azuki beans, or you do in fact already like them, you really need to try this. It’s refreshing to taste something so different.
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I really enjoyed this Kit Kat when I tried it.
Though i couldn’t understand the packaging, I thought it was wonderfully presented - if I remember rightly it smelt fantastic as well.
The taste is indeed hard to describe isn’t it … sort of a creamy, yet nutty mixture - but it is more than that! There was a slight something in the aftertase that seemed to accentuate those flavours more.
good review
cheers
Jim
October 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hi. Love your blog. Was just curious to know if you over there in the UK you have access to ‘Magnum’ chocolates… When I say ‘Magnum’, I mean the same make as the ice-creams advertised by Eva Longoria?…
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Jim - I wholeheartedly agree, and thanks.
Marcia - We only have Magnum ice cream, they make regular chocolates too?
November 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Azuki / red bean is definitely one of japan’s go-to flavors when making a special edition candy, isn’t it? That, and green tea. Earlier this year everything was mont blanc cake / chestnut flavored. This year it seems like white grape / muscat is the new trend.
My two experiences with azuki / red bean kit kats were not good, but I haven’t tried either of the recent ones. My first was a straight red bean one with pink (white) chocolate with red bean flavor wafer filling. The second was a green tea (white) chocolate bar with red bean flavor wafer filling… as much as they try, I find all the green tea chocolate that comes out of japan just tastes like wheatgrass.