Sounds the same as yesterday’s bar, right? Well…right! This bar also uses dainagon azuki beans, except this time it’s a regional version, as it was only released in Hokkaido. It makes me feel special to review this.

Yeah I agree, the picture on the front looks kinda gross. Sticky, wet looking azuki beans, all gloopy, it’s hard to imagine how they’ve processed these and how it will go with the Kit Kat, though I assume it’ll just be regular creme stuff.

Other than that though the box does look really pretty, it’s got a traditional look going on and it looks like the strip down the middle has been torn off to show the logo and bowl of beans, it’s a real nice effect and it looks great on the cardboard box.

As always there are two packs inside, with two Kit Kat sticks in each one. The packs are also quite pretty, with a beige and light red theme, as well as a bunch of Kanji I can’t read. Open a wrapper up and we have a white chocolate Kit Kat absolutely littered with little red bits. The azuki beans have actually been mixed into the chocolate it seems!

Indeed when biting a stick in half you can see that the beans are inside the chocolate itself. There is also azuki bean paste within the wafers themselves, giving it an obviously strong flavour. Despite this though it still tastes quite delicate, and the white chocolate is never too sweet or sugary, making the entire bar very balanced.

It tastes fairly similar to yesterday’s, again I was able to detect a hint of salt and I’m not familiar enough with azuki beans to be able to detect if there was much difference here. I really did feel privilaged to review such a rare bar though, and it’s for things like this that I keep buying stuff from Japan. A really lovely bar that you will never try, for shame.