Sakura drinks

So now comes the drinks that are sakura-flavored.


This is part of the Desserts Series from Kochakaden (紅茶花伝), which is a milk tea by Coca-Cola. They made the caramel-flavored tea that I mentioned in the last drinks post I made. So this one is sakura-fragrant (薫る桜 - kaoru sakura). Maybe it's just the smell then? Since I'm not sure how you would make a drink that tasted like sakura. But hey, there were sakura-flavored chips a while back.


And this is Sakura Mist by Canada Dry. I'm not sure what kind of drink this is though, so don't ask me...

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Store: Lawson

[Review] Sakura Chips

I recently bought a bag of the sakura chips that I had posted about earlier. When I first opened the bag, there was an immediate waft of flower fragrance that smelled sweet, but not too overpowering. I'm not sure if it really did smell like sakura, because it felt like there was something else along with it.

The taste was a bit weird at first. It took me a while before I could eat a second chip. It had a strange aftertaste, but not a strong one. Just felt like there was something left over that you hadn't been able to completely get rid of. I can't pinpoint a taste, but I think it was more sweet than anything, which might have been what caught be off guard, because chips aren't normally sweet. But after a while I got used to it and I finished the whole bag. It really did feel like I was eating flower petals though. Not necessarily in the texture, but mostly because of the smell, I think.

I wouldn't eat this more than once though.

Sakura chips

Behold, O'Zack chips with cherry blossom flavor!

It says it uses sakura leaves. Not quite sure how that'd taste...


Cherry blossom salt flavor (桜塩味 - sakura shio aji)

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Store: Lawson