i ordered the premium box which is $34.99 (around £23 as i'm in the uk) and the website says that premium boxes have 13 to 17 full size candy snacks, 2 diy candy sets and a special item. you get free shipping for each type of box also! i decided on premium because diy sets sound fun and it's honestly the best value for money box out of the small, regular and premium options.
so what was in my box?
the box is pretty big. bigger than i was expecting and i cannot get everything back into the box now that i've taken it out.
there is a pretty good selection of savory and sweet items included. more sweet than savoury, but that's fair enough for a 'treat' box i think. i'm gonna write a little bit about each item individually with a picture of each item. i'll also include the name that the leaflet gives for them because y'know... i don't know japanese. also worth noting, all opinions on these candies are mine because i'm super weird about food, so if i say something is gross but you absolutely love it then that's cool and i respect that. i'm just sayin' how i feel about 'em.
first up, this is "chilled candy (ginger and honey)" and it was gross actually. i don't really like honey myself, so i thought was soon as ai read it that i wouldn't like it. the can itself is pretty small and i do like the pattern on it. from previous experiance with canned drinks, i usually expect them to be fizzy and when they aren't it sorta weirds me out a little bit. this was one of those times. the flavour started out nicely. you get hit with ginger straight off but then you're overwhelmed by honey and it sticks with you. it's incredibly syrupy and sweet. not a fav.
i was excited for this one!! pokemon candy! i love pokemon!! sadly, i didn't like this one either. i was super confused at first because it wasn't pictured on the leaflet. i found it eventually, the last listed item in the premium section, but they'd accidentally used another item's picture. anyway, this is "east pigeon pokemon milk snack" ...oh. i thought it was going to be some kind of cookie. i tried it anyway. it was... weird. milky and sweet and vanilla flavour, but too sweet. not pleasant. i did get a mega salamance sticker though. i'm going to put it on this laptop later.
the third item was "gummy maru takeshi grilled egg" and i'm not even gonna lie this was the worst thing in the box. the drink was bad but oh boy nothing can prepare you for grilled egg horror. i don't like eggs. i don't like sweet flavoured egg mochi cakes either, apparently, according to the leaflet, this "80 year old snack has been a staple in households for decades" and i'm glad i've not been living in those households.
i mean i don't know what that says but they were nice! a small box of chocolates with four flavoured fillings. each chocolate has a letter printed so you can see which flavour you've picked up, and they spell out the word LOOK so that's cute. the flavours are not something i'm used to. three were nice, one was edible but kinda weird, if anything. the three nice were pumpkin, grape and chestnut. the weird one was sweet potato. i've never eaten a sweet potato, but if i do i won't be covering it with chocolate. the chocolate itself was so so so nice, actually. less sweet than british chocolate (i think we put like ten mountains of sugar in ours or something?) and it really reminded me of a sweet that i love but i still can't remember what it was. hmm.
"assassination classroom sugar cola flavour chewy candy"
i've not seen assassination classroom. have been thinking about watching it, though. i'm not sure how it ties into the show but it must have something to do with the face and the weird yellow guy on the back. the candies were sour. like painfully so. and they're very hard to chew. it's like a punishment or something. but they were very nice and the pack is resealable so i can eat one and then leave them alone for like a day and they'll still be nice. the cola flavouring is pretty generic so that's good.
I'M GONNA CAPSLOCK THIS ENTIRE SECTION BECAUSE OH BOY I LOVE THESE. "MEIJI'S CURRY CURLS" ARE A BIT LIKE MONSTERMUCH BUT CURLED UP AND THEY'RE CURRY FLAVOURED AND THEY'RE SO NICE I'M IN LOVE.
"yaokin rice cracker" i like rice crackers. these are excellent rice crackers. very thin and sweet flavoured. i don't really have a lot to say about them. i really liked them. the packaging has this cute lil guy on it.
you can kinda see inthis picture that ive already eaten most of these before thinking 'hmm i should blog this'
these are (or were heh) "kyooya cherry rice cake" and they're a bit like unsugared jelly tots? that's the only way i can really explain them. they're a bit soft and you get a little stick to get them out of the packaging with. i liked them.
i got a little excited by these. as soon as i took them out of the box i recognized this cute guy from the killers' video for read my mind which is one of my fav songs!! can never remember his name. turns out it's 'gachapin.' cute. these are "glico's pretz mild salad" and they are just ok. they're pretzel sticks with a mild salady flavour. the packaging is better than the sticks in my opinion.
i've left the video to read my mind here because 1) it's a great song and 2) i don't need a reason, it's my blog. cool.
this is just a piece of gum. i'll edit if there's anything particularly spectacular about it.
"doraemon's cup chocolate" is pretty much what that says. it's a cup with doraemon on it. it's full of little corn nuggets covered in chocolate. they were quite nice. i used them as a control while i was trying the other treats, because they were so simply and nice enough to get rid of any bad tastes (egg mochi, anyone? no. never). there's a lot of them in the cup and no way to reseal which is a bit of a downside, but if you're sharing they'd be perfect. i'm storing them in a ziploc bag for now. they've spilled everywhere.
not actually bamboo shoots. actually cookies made to look like bamboo shoots. i only ate one but they're okay. the cookie reminds me of those sponge fingers you get in trifle mixes but a bit harder. the leaflet says the petite packaging is in a effort to control portion size, which is a pretty cool idea.
i was really hoping for a calpico item because i see the drinks a lot on tumblr and never really know what they are, so i was very pleased with this item. "glico's capri cocotte strawberry and vanilla" are super yummy, very airy little hear shaped chocolates in strawberry and vanilla flavours. because of the airiness of the chocolates they reminded me of mousse or ice cream. i liked them a lot.
these little things confused me no end. the pictures give nothing away. the leaflet was pretty vague also,only mentioning that they were salty corn snacks, not whether they were flavoured or anything.
i opened one, the yellow packet, and took a bite. bbq chicken. a bit strong for me. not at all what i'm used to. i open a second one. cheese. i hate cheese flavourings. couldn't eat it at all. i opened the third. cheese again.
dammit.
this is one of the diy kits. the leaflet says it's very rare and they're pleased to be able to include it, so i hope i enjoy it.
at first glance, it looks like a pack of ramen. which is almost is. it's gummy ramen. and i'm not sure how i feel about that.
i haven't made it yet and i'll hopefully make a separate post on the making of this and the other diy kit i recieved.
i'm really excited to make these. it seems that you melt the tubes of coloured chocolate and fill molds to make cute little mushrooms. there seems to be plain, white and pink chocolates included.
i hope to add this to a separate post along with the gummy ramen when i make them.
overall, i really enjoyed this box! this is the second of this type of box i've received, after getting a few loot crates in the past (which are honestly awful now, too much marvel rubbish and nothing of particular quality) so i think i will continue getting tokyo treat boxes for a few more months at least. i'll leave a few links below so you can sign up too if you're interested!! thanks for reading :3
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