Kit Kat - Special edition

Following is my online overboard purchase, but thought I'd share anyway.

For a while now, I've heard about all the specialty Kit Kat in Japan.  Highly curious, and a few clicks later, I got myself a nice big box of Kit Kat at my front door from Japan.  Luckily, before the heat sets in.

All of these limited edition are really based geographically.  From the top, we have adzuki bean sandwich, wasabi, adzuki bean pancake, purple yam (sweet potato)

Besides unique flavors, the box design is also very different.  From the top: Fuji mountain - Strawberry Cheesecake, unbeknownst to me, the 2nd one is also Strawberry Cheesecake from another region.  Strawberry (no cheesecake) and apple.

This is Sake Kit Kat.  When you open it up, you do smell the rice wine, though you can't get drunk eating these Kit Kats, the smell of it is good enough to get you drunk.

Now, not all of the specialty Kit Kat comes in cool boxes, these came in bags.

Top to bottom: we have cooked sake (rice wine) flavor, dark chocolate flavor, and banana flavor for Easter.  I will say, it smells like banana, but doesn't really taste it.  It's covered with white chocolate.

Here we have green tea, mandarin (orange), and roasted soy beans with sakura (cherry blossom flowers).  Amazingly, it tasted like roasted soy beans and it's very lightly scented with flower fragrant.

Apparently, the name Kit Kat sounds like a good luck phrase in Japan, that's why there's a huge popularity associate with the chocolate.  They even have their own confectionary shops that you can custom tailor your box of Kit Kat with different flavors.  Some of the boxes you can even have your own photo and message on it.  

That said, the ones featured in the posts, are all in mini size.  No more than 54-65 calories per pack.  It's pretty small, and good things comes in small doses.  You can easily get Green Tea and Dark Chocolate here in the States, the other is really relaying on someone coming back or these online site.  The sites will only sell chocolate items up to April and some early May, for fear of melting during transit.  

Read more about the Japan obsession of Kit Kat here: 

http://fortune.com/2018/03/22/japanese-kit-kats/