There are almost always new and interesting Kit Kat flavors for sale in Japan.
Gateau du Mont-Blanc flavor Kit Kats. Found at my local Convenience store. Made with "marron" (chestnut) flavoring.
Strawberry Hazelnut flavor Kit Kats. Found at my local convenience store.
Cookies & Cream flavor Kit Kats. Found at my local convenience store.
More flavors after the jump. (more…)
The Kit Kats are back and just as flavorful as ever!
A two for one deal! Cola flavor and Lemon Squash flavor. Seen in Tokyo.
Kit Kat Strawberry Flavor. Limited edition. Seen at my local convenience store.
Kit Kat sparkling strawberry flavor. Not to be confused with strawberry flavor. Seen at my local convenience store.
Kit Kat Banana flavor. Seen at my local convenience store.
Kit Kat Semisweet flavor. Seen at my local convenience store.
Kit Kat Salt and Caramek Flavor. Seen at my local convenience store.
Two for one! White Peach and Yellow Peach. Not region specific.
Adzuki (Sweet Red Bean) Sandwich. Eastern Sea Reason Limited Edition. Seen in Nagoya.
Kit Kats in a glass Jar! Available in vending machines that sell beverages. This is the only food they offer.
Looking inside at the Kit Kats
Kobe pudding flavor
A special kind of Green Tea flavor that's Kyoto limited edition
Jasmine Tea flavor. Not limited edition
If there’s one thing Japanese people like, it’s limited edition products (限定商品), whether limited by region where it’s sold or time period it’s sold during. So, when Japanese people visit a certain region, they like to bring back limited edition products from that region as souvenirs. In Hokkaido, I even saw normal convenience stores providing lists of which products are limited to Hokkaido or having special limited edition products sections in their store.
Included in the limited edition Hokkaido products are Hokkaido only Kit-Kat flavors! Here they are:
All the Hokkaido flavors lined up together. They don't sell these in individual packs, only in these souvenir packs.
Adzuki (sweet red bean) flavor Kit Kats (小豆味)
Potato flavor Kit Kats (じゃがいも味)
Roasted Corn flavor Kit Kats (焼きもろこし味)
These weren’t Hokkaido limited edition flavors, but I also saw the following flavors for the first time:
Unlike the limited edition Kit Kats, these are sold individually
Tiramisu flavor Kit Kats
Matcha (Green tea) Tiramisu flavor Kit Kats
’tis the season for some special annual Kit Kats. These aren’t Kit Kat flavor, but rather Kit Kat packaging made special for this time of year.
On Valentines Day in Japan, girls give chocolates to boys. Girls are supposed to give chocolate to the boy they like(本命チョコ), but women are also expected to give chocolate to their co-workers(義理チョコ), and chocolate is also given to friends(友チョコ). About one month later, on White Day, boys reciprocate. White Day was actually a holiday invented by a Japanese marshmallow company to cash in on the same kind of moneymaking that happens during Valentines day, but now people give all kinds of candy and chocolates and even other gifts for White Day.
The delicately lemon flavored Valentines Day special Kit Kats. You and that special person each get half of these special Kit Kats.
With this Valentine’s day package, you’re supposed to open it and take one for yourself, then write a message in the box and close it up again, with the other Kit Kat inside to give to your special someone.
The front of the Kit Kat package for the students taking their entrance exams, on which you are meant to write a message such as がんばれ！応援している！(Good luck! I'm rooting for you!)
The way Kit Kats is pronounced in Japanese (キットカッツ) sounds like ‘I’ll surely win!’ (きっと勝つ！)[If Kit Kat is not plural, it is pronounced differently (キットカット)] For this reason, Kit Kats have become a popular gift for students taking entrance examinations(受験) for Junior High, High School or University. That’s why they introduced these Kit Kat boxes designed to mail to students taking entrance exams. They call it Kit Mail (キットメール). It has a spot on the front for writing a message to the student, something to encourage them.And room on the other side to address it. It also says on the box, “surely, the cherry blossoms will bloom(きっと、サクラ、サクよ).” I guess that idea being that just as surely as spring will come, signaled by the cherry blossoms, the recipient will pass their entrance exams.
The back of the box for the students taking entrance exams (受験生), on which you write the address.
Going along with my recent Kit Kat theme, I have some pictures I took of Kit Kats being sold in vending machines. That may not seem so strange at first, but what’s weird is that the Kit Kats are sold in BEVERAGE vending machines in GLASS JARS.
The Kit Kats in the vending machine, surrounded be energy drinks and fruit juice.
In context, more of the vending machine
Another installment of my collection of Kit Kat flavor pictures. These flavors seem particularly Japanese to me. Not something that I could imagine being sold in the West. If you want to look back on the first 2 posts, you can find them here and here.
This doesn't sound very appetizing to me. It's Soy Sauce flavor. I found this at the airport on my way to China. Only available in Tokyo.
More information about the Soy Sauce flavor Kit Kats
Green Tea flavor. A special kind of Japanese green tea powder called matcha, to be specific.
For more information on matcha click here. Matcha is used to flavor all kinds of sweets. Matcha ice cream, rice cakes, lattes, cakes, cookies, rice crackers. You name it, they have it flavored with matcha. My favorite in matcha naan.
Yuzu (a Japanese citrus fruit) flavor Kit Kats
For more information on Yuzu, click here.
These Kit Kats are flavored as daigaku imo(大学いも, literally college potato); That's the name of a dish made with sweet potatoes with honey and sesame seeds. This flavor is limited edition.
I’ve previously written this and this post about the many Kit Kat flavors I’ve seen in Japan. Now I’d like to share the flavors I found across the sea in Shanghai.
Kit Kats in China - These are all the flavors I saw. Milk chocolate and Dark chocolate. That's it. None of those fancy flavors that have taken over the Japanese Kit Kat market.
Close-up on the Milk chocolate Kit Kat
More kit kat flavors that can’t be found in most of the world. (click the link to see flavors that I posted before.)
Oshiruko (Japanese red bean soup) flavor
For an explanation of oshiruko click here.
strawberry cheesecake flavor
blueberry cheese cake flavor
Cookie Kit Kats
kinako (soybean powder) flavor
For an explanation of kinako click here.
apple flavor
tasty strawberry flavor
I’m not saying this flavor is actually delicious. I have no idea about that. but ‘tasty’ is part of the name of the flavor.
In the US, I only ever saw one flavor of Kit Kats. Just plain chocolate. But in Japan, they have more variety in their flavors.
Petit Stawberry Kit Kats
White Chocolate Kit Kat
Muscat of Alexandria Kit Kats
Roasted Tea Kit Kats
Caramel Pudding Kit Kats
Caramel Macchiato McFlurry Kit Kats
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