Rose-scented chocolote

Here's another Meiji chocolate. It's strawberry flavored, but is also rose-scented (ローズ香り - roozu kaori). Looks pretty, doesn't it? Too bad for them I don't like strawberries or roses.



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Store: Lawson

New Meiji chocolate flavors

Here are some new chocolate flavors from Meiji. They both seem rather fancy, and sound pretty yummy too. They're very tempting, but not with that price (210 yen). I'll see if they hit the 99 conbini later on. They look like they'd be good dessert chocolate.


Cheesecake tart. I'm not sure why they called it a tart though. It looks like a regular cheesecake to me. But I love cheesecake. Especially the crust. Though I guess they can't really put a crust in these tiny square chocolate pieces, huh.


This one is strawberry mille-feuille. Looks really good too, except for the whole strawberry part.

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Store: Lawson

Christmas in February?

Yes, for some reason there is still left-over Christmas chocolate. I'd feel a little scared to buy this, but maybe that's just me.



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Store: Lawson

Reverse chocolate

Valentine's Day is coming up and so stores, and not just conbini's, are stocking up on goodies for this day. The holiday is "celebrated" differently here than in the States. Here in Japan, girls give the guy she likes a present on Valentine's Day, sometimes used as a way of confessing that she likes him, or she could just give them to guys as a sign of friendship. It's usually chocolate, and a home-made piece of chocolate is something special. And if the guy likes her back and wants to respond to her feelings, there's White Day on March 14 where the guy gives the girl a present as an answer of sorts.

However, there is now "Reverse Chocolate"! For all those guys who want to do this the American way, you can now buy chocolate to give to the girl of your dreams. But no, it can't be just regular chocolate, because that's obviously only available for girls to give guys. You need to get the special chocolate, the reverse chocolate, because you're going out of the ordinary here.

See below, "reverse chocolate" (逆チョコ - gyaku choko) from Dars (and Milk).



The poster sign thingy even says, "From guys to girls, reverse chocolate".

Personally, I think Japan just likes coming up with ways to make people spend money.

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Store: Lawson

Pocky flavors

Some new Pocky stuff out.



There's that strawberry thing going on again on the left. I guess it's "dessert" Pocky because it's bigger? Yea, that sounds dirty, I know.

The other two are "marble" Pocky, though I don't really know why. I think it's because there're those swirls like in marble cake? Who knows. Chocolate framboise in the red box and mix berries on the right.

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Store: Lawson