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Pocky chocolate and strawberry flavor

Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth with Japanese Candies

If you’re looking for some unique, tasty treats, Japanese candies are right up your alley. They are well-known for their bright and interesting wrapping, unique flavors, and combinations.

Popular Japanese candies:

Mentos candies in Unusual Flavors— although Mentos itself is a well-known brand, these flavors are different! One Mentos candy tastes of Ume, the Japanese plum. One tastes like honey and apple. The most distinctive is the lemon squash–thankfully, it tastes mostly of lemon.

Hi-Chew’s Haskap Berry–made with the taste of Haskap berry, a type of honeysuckle that can be found in Hokkaido (and in China and Siberia. These berries are similar to raspberries and blueberries but more tart.

Kasugai Yuzui Gummy candy–You’ll like this if you like oranges. Tastes of tangerine and smells of lemon. It has a powdery, chewy texture.

Morinaga Sweet Potato Caramels–another example of creativity, these candies have a milky, buttery  taste mixed in with the flavors of sweet potatoes or yams.

Pocky chocolate and strawberry flavor

Pocky–breadsticks dipped in chocolate. They maybe be simple but they’re delicious. Some versions even have nuts mixed in, or strawberry.

Morinaga Choco Balls–delicious chocolate-covered cookies. They also come in chocolate peanut and strawberry.

Milky–made by Fujiya, Milky is the favorite of many candy lovers. The bag has a girl named Peko-chan as its mascot. Each bag has 40 pieces of milk-flavored caramel candies. It comes in many versions–some have the regular outer caramel layer with a creamy milky filling while others come in fruit flavors like pineapple, with a creamy pineapple filling inside.

Koalas Marchkoala-shaped cookies with a variety of sweet fillings like banana and honey. But the two most popular fillings remain strawberry and chocolate.

Apollo – this popular cone-shaped  Japanese candy made by Meiji is a combo of strawberry and chocolate–melts in your mouth!

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