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.

Cranberry, strawberry and blueberry all swirled together and blended with white chocolate. This is the first time cranberry has been used in a Kit Kat and it’s obvious that this is going to be a very fruity and sweet combo.

The box looks real snazzy, a nice blue theme with some sparkly fruit. The packets inside follow the same theme except they look perhaps even better due to their limited space and hence the blue, white and red have been compressed a little bit more. There’s a load of kanji on the box but I have no idea what any of it means. Oh well.

As soon as I opened a packet, a fruity smell burst forth, as if it was barely being contained. The bar smells exactly how I described it - sweet, tangy and fruity. The bar has an even distribution of white and pink, making it a very nice looking bar of course.

The chocolate coating itself tastes and feels like regular white chocolate, with the cream filling being very tangy and fruity. It tastes like a fruit blend rather than being able to pick up any individual flavours, and even when I tried to really taste an individual flavour (I chose strawberry as my mosy recognised one) I struggled to do so.

The bar is pretty delicious, fruity and creamy, and just plain good. A well made fruit bar and one I’d gladly try again.

Yep, I’m not making this one up. A white chocolate Kit Kat with French rock salt in between the wafers. Very limited edition, I don’t think you’ll be finding many of these about nowadays, but will you even want to? Let’s find out.

Salt is a bit of an underappreciated ingredient with chocolate. I’ve only had it as a primary ingredient in a few bars, such as the Vosges Barcelona bar, and I absolutely loved it, so why it’s not used more often is beyond me. Regardless, Nestlé have decided to give it a go, and have used white chocolate instead of milk chocolate, so the bar will be a little sweeter and creamier than normal.

These didn’t come in a box but instead just in the little wrappers. They’re blue, very plain, nothing to comment on. Inside is our chocolate, and it’s just plain white. Japanese white chocolate tastes different to ours, much like their take on caramel there’s a lot more flavour to it. The salt here doesn’t come out as much as I’d like to, but it definitely counterbalances the sweetness and from time to time you get a lingering flavour of it which is quite pleasant.

Overall, it’s nice. I only got these because they sounded really interesting and were so rare, and I wouldn’t get them again. Certainly enjoyed while they lasted, but they feel like they could be better, maybe they should be done with milk chocolate next time.

Back in my student days (christ that makes me sound old, it was only a few months ago!) I did a fair bit of…conoisseuring, shall we say, of alcoholic beverages. Rum was never one that I tried, due to a slightly bad experience with it as a slightly younger teen. Raisin is something that I feel by now most of you will be aware that I frankly dislike. And so when I saw rum and raisin Pocky I figured it’d make perfect sense for me to buy it!

The rum and raisin combo has always intrigued me a little bit, and I really couldn’t pass up the opportunity to not only see Japan’s take on it, but specifically how it work when turned into yoghurt-paste like form and slathered on some biscuit sticks.

And so like yesterday’s marble Pocky we have these. The sticks are, as you can see from the box, white with a purple marble effect. Again like yesterday there are three packs in the box and three sticks in each pack.

The taste is…strange. It definitely tastes of rum, it’s like being able to taste the kick that it gives you, only without the kick, which is a rather strange experience. There’s nothing warm or alcohol-like about these, it’s simply flavour. The raisin…oh yeah, there was raisin wasn’t there? Yeah I totally forgot because I couldn’t taste any, not that I’ve ever been able to really taste raisins even when I’m eating the damn things by themselves.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy this. It’s definitely piqued my interest in rum and raisin and makes me kinda want to taste it in fudge form. Like yesterday’s review, if you can find these then they’re well worth trying.

Hooray for more Pocky! This came as part of my Japanese package back when I reviewed the Olympic gold Kit Kat, the good old marble Pocky, which is chocolate pocky that then has caramel marbled over it. Sounds yummy.

Marble Pocky always looks great. This box has a bunch of hearts on the front, as well as a picture of a few Pocky sticks. The Marble tab at the top that you can see opens up to reveal three gold and white packets which have three sticks in each.

Why only three? Because these are much thicker than normal. A caramel smell wafts from the packets as you open them, enticiting you, or at least me. Mine were almost all broken into a few pieces but it wasn’t a big issue. The cookie sticks are much thicker than normal, much like the chocolate that coats them.

Caramel and chocolate is a tried and tested combination and this does of course go together very well. The Japanese take on caramel seems to be a little different than ours, the taste is a little…creamier, maybe? It just has more flavour basically, as our British caramel has a tendency to be tasteless.

Overall, really nice. The flavours go together well, it’s a filling snack and it’s something I’d have again. Well worth checking out if you can ever find these in the revolving door world of Japanese confectionery.

If there’s one thing Hershey’s know how to do, it’s how to combine low quality chocolate with low quality peanut butter and create an amazing hybrid of flavours. And so I go into this review with high expectations because I actually trust that Hershey have made this well. I know, shocking.

This 311g bag of Peanut Butter Kisses emits a strong peanut butter smell as soon as you open the bag. I still think that these bags look cheap, not necessarily the quality but the design just looks kinda strange, and there’s something about it I don’t really like. Another thing I dislike is when peanut butter is described as ‘creamy’, for some reason this turns my stomach a little bit. Anywho…

Inside the bag are many, many little ‘kisses’. They’re wrapped in gold foil with ‘peanut butter’ written on each in red font. The kisses themselves are very greasy, with the tape that wraps around the chocolate having to be peeled off in nearly every case, and looking almost wet with the grease. Yum!

The way they work is to have a small chocolate base, then the dollop of peanut butter, and then the top dome part is chocolate again. The combination of course works well, with the taste being entirely peanut butter but with enough chocolate to keep it sweet. It tastes similar to a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup only not quite as good in my opinion, it seems a little lower in quality but I can’t deny that these are moreish as hell and delicious to boot.

I have eight bags of Hershey’s Kisses, and this is the one I decided to go with first. A 312g bag full of white chocolate Hershey’s Kisses flavoured both artificially and naturally with lemon, this combination making it a lemon creme flavour.

I’m a big lemon fan so I was looking forward to these about as much as I could really, considering they’re made by Hershey and are artificially (yes, and naturally) flavoured. The bag is full of individually foil wrapped “kisses”, which I have reviewed before and so won’t describe too much.

They’re white with yellow stripes on. They’re not filled with lemon creme or anything like that, instead being solid white chocolate with lemon flavour. The flavour is surprisingly strong, and blends quite well with the chocolate. In the end it really does taste pretty much how lemon creme should taste. The white chocolate is quite greasy when it melts and is of obviously poor quality, but it doesn’t matter too much.

So basically, lemon fans should revel in these. If you hate lemon then obviously there won’t be much here for you, but if you’re like me you’ll probably really enjoy these. With an insanely huge 1680 calories in this bag, you’ll really wanna be careful, but these are well worth a look.

Some say white chocolate is the cancer that is killing chocolate. Not even chocolate itself, white chocolate masquerades as chocolate, using the name chocolate to have itself sold as chocolate. Chocolate.

Maltesers are a fairly decent snack. Little balls of honeycomb usually covered in milk chocolate, and also covered in dark chocolate in Australia and white chocolate in this case. I very rarely buy them because they give my teeth a very weird feeling when I bite them, which is something I blame on the honeycomb, and because their adverts are quite possibly the worst and most annoying things on television. Also they’re aimed at women (they advertise on that crappy women’s panel show, Loose Women).

So rant over, when I got these in Tesco back in late August, they had a little “Discontinued” thing on the shelf label, so I figured I’d have to get them. They don’t really excite me but let’s get it on.

Now with regular Maltesers, it’s the somewhat brittle honeycomb that puts me off, though this seems to have been rectified here. The bubbly honeycomb here breaks easily and whilst getting all stuck in your teeth, doesn’t really cause any strange problems. It also has quite a strong taste, somewhat like…honeycomb. The white chocolate doesn’t have much of a taste, from time to time I feel like I can detect it but for the most part it’s not there.

These are a little plain and perhaps somewhat disappointing. There’s not much taste though I guess the low calories here is what would attract people. I can see why they’ve been discontinued, as it’s obvious they’d have been made at somepoint, but there’s nothing really here to make me want to buy these again. Each 35g bag has 177 calories, 2.9g Protein, 22.4g Carbohydrates and 8.4g Fat.

I can’t get enough of Australian chocolate or something, so here’s some more. Pascall must have seen how much money Mars are making from Revels here and so made their own version of them, and here we have mini Clinkers. Now let’s find our favourite centre!

So I wiki’d Pascall and it reverted to a grape. Oh well, that’s all the research I’m doing. There are three colours on the front - green, pink and yellow, and there’s nowhere saying which colour is which flavour, or if there are any others or anything. Ya know I like mystery and all but come on, couldn’t you give us a hint Pascall?

Supposedly Pascall turns moments into memories. What does that even mean? Why are they telling us this? Who cares? Like, they go to the effort of putting this on every pack of these mini Clinkers and there must be a reason for this. Are they trying to make it seem like they have some sort of amazing reputation? Are they trying to make all the old grannies go “awww” and buy them? Can I rant anymore?

So I poured them all out without eating any of them and there we go. I then bit into one and what the hell? It’s crunchy, brittle, I can’t bite through it! All the chocolate breaks off and I’m left with some hard green stuff which is kinda minty. Eww, it doesn’t taste great and it hurts my teeth like a teeth hurting machine. I bite through another, goddamnit mint again. I bite another, whoa that was soft, and it’s pink! Tastes…kinda like strawberry, only artificial and crap. I bite another and it’s yellow! And it tastes like…eww, pineapple. Gross!

Oh man, these suck. These suck hardcore. The stuff in the middle is bloody awful, it reminds me of honeycomb only much harder, and the taste is just not good for any of them. The chocolate is cheap and tasteless too. Well Pascall gave me memories alright. Freaking crappy memories, and I’m passing them onto all of you. Pascall is a subsidiary of Cadbury too, now are you disappointed?

Another lovely Australian product, here is a Flake from Cadbury with the chocolate in the middle flavoured with mint, and coloured green. Why not!?

I’m not the biggest Flake fan or the biggest mint fan, so suffice it to say I’m stoked for this bar. Of course the chocolate is CADBURY’S DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE as they like to show off constantly, so yeah, that’s all I have to say about that.

The first ingredient is confectionary, made up of nearly every other ingredient on the list, well that’s both wonderful and confusing, and somewhat wonderfully confusing. The ingredients are also listed in French I think…for some reason. This is made and sold in Australia and New Zealand only so I’m not sure why French is needed, is there a large French speaking population? I’d love to know as long as you don’t talk my face off.

So as you can see and as I mentioned the bar is green on the inside and CADBURY’S DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE on the outside. The CADBURY’S DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE provides a sort of protective shell for the flakey-like minty chocolate which stops it crumbling everywhere, which I am thankful for. Despite the chocolate being so thin though it shares the flavour with the mint, so it’s definitely a half and half bar.

The mint isn’t really that impressive. It tastes a little bit like toothpaste only it’s rotting my teeth and I don’t usually eat toothpaste unless I’m particularly hungry and particularly lazy, and this type of particularity has never occured to me. So did I enjoy eating it? I guess so, I was also impressed that it made such an epic journey across the globe and survived so well, so bonus marks there, but I can’t see myself craving this ever again, and if I did, well I have some CADBURY’S DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE and some toothpaste myself, and I’m not afraid of experimenting, baby.