Why I'll NEVER Eat Japanese Kit-Kat Again...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2023
- Japan is obsessed with Kit Kats. This is not new, but the flavors are ALWAYS changing, so I spent a few months collecting EVERY flavor and tried them all out (which I do not recommend btw) From the range of Matcha kit kats, to strawberry and beyond, this is Every Tiny Japanese Kit Kat Flavor...
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Same
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I wouls like to try the apple one! I haven't seen that one before!
I've had the sake kitkat in Haneda airport - they did nail the aroma of sake for me, but although I really love sake, I didn't like the kitkat that much lol.
Tokyo Banana is where it's at for me.
I literally did giving and receiving“you can pass”written KitKat before university entrance exams in my high school age and it’s been always great memory!
Now as an adult I still enjoy finding interesting KitKat wherever I travel. Didn’t know that many flavors exist though! Thank you for the great challenge Norm, hope you still like KitKat!😆
whaaaat?
I appreciate that you always share some of your own Japanese experiences on the videos each time!!
Thank you for that, and keep up the great work!!
this sounds like such a nice and wholesome tradition
Loved the video Norm, as always.
For the ruby: Ruby is a certain type of chocolate. The color (Pink) and taste (Berry like) are coming from the cacaobeans they used in it. I like the flavor a lot myself, but can see how not everybody will be a fan :)
Came here to say this, happy there are other chocolate lovers out here to explain some of the lesser known chocolates to people ^___^
I’ve tried the Ruby before. I think sweet and pink is an apt description. Nondescript. Confusing. Not bad. But not good enough to warrant buying again.
They taste wonderful, but make my pre-existing chocolate allergy (the darker the worse) act up even worse than dark chocolate. So while its tasty its also so hard to breathe afterwards for an hour or so TAT (And its really expensive for essentially fruity pink chocolate with worse effects than pitch black 100% cacao chocolate)
Morning Norm! Thanks for sacrificing yourself in the name of research. Always blows my mind on how many varieties of Kit-Kat Japan has.
hahaha and a sacrifice it was ~
@@TokyoLens As someone who needs to watch their blood sugar, this is a much appreciated sacrifice, haha. Thank you Norm!
"I was wrong" just killed me, that was so on point. Also, i've had tried over 30 flavours of kitkats (and always searching for more, which isn't easy when Japan is basically on the other side of the world) and i've gotta say milk tea, apple pie are some of my favourites. Few of the more interesting ones would also be sparkling wine with strawberry, mont blanc or pistachio.
I brought a variety of Kit Kat flavors for my office colleagues from my first trip to Japan in 2019. They really liked matcha, sweet potato and black tea flavor. I personally also liked umeshu and Tokyo Banana flavor. There were still gazillion other flavors which I did not buy, but suitcase space is very valuable when returning from Japan. I really would love to visit again someday. And try more Kit Kats for sure 😄
Sometimes you can find them at Asian markets. I get them at HMart. And the Marcha and Black tea are a couple of my favorites.
Awesome! I did this about 6 years ago on a trip. My favourite was the melon Kit Kats, made with melon and mascarpone cheese. I also went to the chocolatier at the bottom of the big Shinjuku station shopping centre and got a custom made one with fruit and nuts. Japan is the best!
nice!
Cassis (pronounced like: ka-cease) is a French town and also the french word for blackcurrant. Blackcurrant is a popular fruit flavour in a lot of Europe (idk about other European countries but in the UK you can't readily buy blackcurrants as a fruit, but blackcurrant flavoured sweets/drinks are very common). It's not popular in the US because blackcurrant trees carried a disease that was harmful to native trees so the trees were all got rid of a long time ago.
You should invite friends for a KitKat party to clean up the mess! 😂
Here we have KitKat in dark and light version. And... that's about it.
The way you described the whole grain biscuit one a "good kind of plain" made me think of Calorie Mate, my go-to iron ration whenever I'm in Japan - I wish there were as many flavors of those!
The packaging is what I really like. The amount of effort they place on presenting it.
The accuracy of the red apple flavor is genuinely uncanny. If not for the texture I would swear I was taking a bite out of a crisp red apple. Even more so with the aftertaste.
Ruby Chocolate is fantastic. As far as I know, Ruby chocolate is made from a different kind of cocoa bean. For a while you could get Ruby Kit Kats in the UK and they were my favourite (next to Peanut Butter).
Thank you for the sharing the abundance of Kit Kat flavors Japan has to offer. It is always mind-blowing how many unique and creative flavors they have come up with. On a side note, if you can, please have some warm Japanese / Chinese green tea to help with your stomach. It always does wonders for me when i dont feel too good inside.
Awesome video! Been obsessed with Kitkats for the past year. Got a whole desk drawer filled with different flavors from all over the world. The Japanese varieties are definitely my favorite and I was really surprised by how much I like the fruit flavors like peach and melon. Also, totally agree with the assessment of the whole grain flavor, very simple but still very good. Can't wait to visit Japan and try so many more flavors.
The lemon salt ones reminded me of the lemon frosted Girl Scout cookies! That's probably what you remember in taste. To me, the sake one is nothing to write home about.
I love kit kat
So did I... until I did this lol
nah.....i think tim tam is better
I really liked the key lime ones we had in the States a couple years ago. The Fruity Pebbles ones weren't too bad either.
I hope you haven't felt sick for too long after recording this video. 😅 I fully agree on the artificial taste of the strawberry cheesecake variants, which are probably my least favorite. I'm all for the matcha versions; 5-10 years ago they had an extra strong matcha edition which was divine. There was a local citrus version from I believe Shikoku that I really liked as well.
I enjoyed the Kit Kat trip that you just took us on. Well done and thank you for indulging for us.
Hi Norm, long time fan of the channel, thanks for helping with our regular Japan fix 😅
When we went to Japan we spent way to much money in kit kat and brought 20 different varieties as well. We even did small care packages for the family and close friends with one small kit kat if each flavour. I remember our favourite was one that is slightly bigger single piece with nuts or dried fruit on top. Keep up the good work. Merry Xmas.
Great Video! I absolutely love your reviews of the myriad of flavors!
KitKats are one of my favorite chocolate candies! This was very interesting to watch, and I thank you for taking the time and stomachache to taste test all of those for us. Ruby chocolate is definitely an acquired taste. To some it just seems like a fancy colored chocolate while others can tell you the difference in taste immediately. I’m kind of shocked there weren’t more duo types, like mocha (which is amazing) or the mint chocolate. Hope your stomach feels better soon!
Bought the biscuit ones today for the first time and you described it perfect!
Such a simple concept, and yet one of the most fun videos to watch!! I've been busy trying to catch up on your content that I'd missed, and this definitely amped me up to watch more! Hope you had a great Christmas, Norm! 🎄
~ Amy🍁
Hey Norm, excited for this one! I love Japanese Kit Kat varieties.
just sooooo many!
Norm, thanks for doing this in the pursuit of the best KitKat for all of us. Your facial expressions at some of the questionable ones and the aside comments were laugh out loud moments. Great video in time for Christmas, I will see if some of those flavors might be at my local international shops for stocking stuffers. BTW did you ever figure out what the Lemon one reminded you of? Best wishes for Christmas to you and yours!
Thank you Norm...not only another interesting video...but a mouth watering one as well.
Time to write that book about different Kit-Kat varieties around the world!!!
This was a fun video to watch. I knew there were many flavors I haven’t seen before, but I had no idea there were this many. Thank you for your sacrifice, and I hope you had a quick recovery! 😊
I’ve tried most of these ordered from the US, started trying them in 2014 and a big part of being able to try multiple kinds at once is to buy the east and west japan variety pack, it lets you 12 different flavors total and then you can work up from there, I’m gonna take a wild guess and say I’ve maybe tried 48 or so? over the past 9 years lol
Merry Christmas!! And thank you so so much for all the great videos
The Kit Kats lets go! I've only tried a handful of the flavors they have there from the Tokyo Treat boxes I've picked up. Milk tea and chestnut were two of my favorites!
I did this last year, but over a month, thanks, amazon. Props to you to try it it all in one sitting. I even brought some in to work for a team meeting and they loved them all, even the wasabi!
I was just googling Japanese Kit Kat flavors the other day and now this is in my inbox. Amazing!
It was fun watching you try them all, including some I recently got to try (like the whole wheat). It was also interesting to me that two of my absolute favorites, Sake and Yuku, were ones you didn't like as much! The fun of taste buds! :D
I loved this fun unusual video. Great job. Thankyou
I just returned from a month-long vacation in Japan and my omiyage obligations were met with lots of KIT-KATS. One of the flavors I brought back that wasn't part of your haul was PEACH. It was pretty popular, as was STRAWBERRY and UJI MATCHA. The Matcha was my favorite.
I also brought back both sake flavors and my reaction was the same as yours for both; the umeshu was surprisingly nice.
Thank you for such a fun video!
This video was a riot XD. I loved your ratings for the kit-kats! I definitely wish I had some of those right now!
I really enjoy the wasabi ones. My favorites are the sake and the lemon ones. Can't wait to go to Japan and try more (that didn't show up in my Tokyo Treat box). Love your videos, Norm. Keep it up!!
The green tea ones are amazing!
I’ve eaten many of those, my favorites are still the Uji Matcha one, the Orange and Chocolate, the Ume Sake and the dark 72% Chocolate. Will definitely try to find more flavors.
Yep, some of these I have tried because they were sold at my local Japanese grocery store in the states. 😊 I actually like the passionfruit but that's cause I like tart sweets. I like that they are mini so I get just enough and not too much😊
Great video! Looked like you were having fun and enjoying yourself.
I received the Sakura Kit-Kat as a gift and was surprised with how sweet it tasted! definitely one of the most delicious version I had!
So enjoyable of an episode
Oh wow you ate all of them🎉 I’m full now just watching you lol I don’t eat KitKat that much but I enjoyed this video a lot😆 definitely wanna go to the KitKat gift shop and try what you got while watching this again, compare how you rated vs what I think♪ thanks for releasing the fun video for holiday season🎄
The Dark Chocolate Raspberry Kitkats are amazing. I recall trying a number of them when I visited back in 2015. Between those and the 72% dark chocolate, they are a nice treat. The Dark Chocolate Raspberry ones I had were the premium ones from the same store in Osaka.
I think you need more of these videos, this was fun to watch 🙌🏽
I don’t really like candy but Kit Kats always take me to a happy place. When I was living in Japan they had a hazelnut one that was amazing! I want to try the 72% cocoa one, also you’re lucky they were kit kay minis because if they would have been full size this video would have been a lot shorter 🤣🤣
I bought a few when I went this fall, and wasabi is easily my favorite! Sweet, gently spicy, a little floral, just pleasant to have with a cup of tea. The Hiroshima Momoji ones were also a favorite :)
You had my EXACT reaction to the apple kit kat. It's amazing!
I loved this video! The KitKat bar ratings were absolutely delightful! ❤ Based on recent memory I know i enjoyed the chocolate orange one. 😋 The local variations don't really compare; got a cookie crumble one last week. Found it to sweet and the chocolate too hard. I am blessed that my city has a number of Asian groceriers and candy shops where I'm able to get my hands on Japanese KitKat. Tempted to revive my old foodie instagram.
Green Matcha is my jam. It's the most exotic flavour I was ever able to get, but boy, was it always a treat.
I'd love to try more flavours, though. If I ever go to Japan, that's definitely on the list.
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All too kind
Thank you for being the type of person that you are~
My favorite part of getting the Tokyo Treat box was the kit kats. My fave were peach, melon, Cafe au last, orange chocolate and the japan sake. Japan seemed to use more white chocolate than milk chocolate. I think if they used milk chocolate some of the ones you didn't like would have been better.
Always such great vibes in your videos! Oh man, I would have loved to try ALL of these kit kats! I only tasted the matcha ones when I was in Japan... Well, maybe next time! 🤔
Mmmmm they all look so good
I brought home halk a suitcase of snacks when I visited Japan in October & I managed to get most of these Kit Kats. Chocolate orange and whole grain biscuits were my favorites, the one with the maple leaf shaped cookie on the box was my least (I skipped wasabi).
Hi Norm, That was a fun journey through the varied world of Nestle Kit Kat flavor samples. We came across a Vanilla Ice Cream flavor that we picked up at a Don Quixote near Kyoto Station this past November (nothing special at all). However, if you haven't experienced the Halloween themed Apple Pie flavored Kit Kat, you owe it to yourself to hunt one down during the month of October. It is unique and very layered. Our favorite to date. Thanks again for the fun time (even though it was provided at your discomfort). Cheers!
You started with my favorite flavor! It wasn't available in the states for so long so when salt lemon came back around I bought like 30.
Definitely should try the Tokyo Amazake one, it's great!
My favorite Japanese Kit Kat I've ever had is the melon flavored one. We bought them at Uwajimaya in Seattle. I finished them a while back and I still crave them.
8:13 shinshu apple is my absolute favourite out of all the Kit Kat flavours and they are so hard to find overseas! I was surprised to see you rated it 10/10 because it has such a unique taste and I don’t know anyone else who likes this!
I have never been a enjoyer of any of the content creators like you make, Except I love your stuff! Good Job Sir.
Norm putting himself on the line for us doing important work. I salute you sir. I love Kit Kats and didn’t know Japan was crazy for them…Another reason I must go visit Japan now.
Just started watching this video but I'm happy salt lemon and orange ranked high! They're my favorites from a bunch of flavors i got last time I was in japan
The rum raisin and banana are really good-there are so many that it would be crazy trying to cover them all
I've had the Matcha, Sake and Sakura flavours (all purchased at The Pacific Mall in Markham); Sake was just weird, kind of like those little boozy chocolate bottles for sale around the holidays - no liquid but too strong in flavour to be mixed with chocolate. I did have a friend from work return from Japan and gift me the Peach flavour...is was a 7. I too enjoy Raspberry, sadly not often found in many sweet treats; strawberry seems to be the most popular. Well, you can mark that off the "bucket list" and thanks for enduring the insulin spike and possible tooth decay for us...this is why we love you. 😊
I’ve tried a few of them. My favorite was the green tea flavor. I’d love to try the sake one.
The salt lemon is so good!
Norm, you are living (and regretting) the dream!
I saw that there were different flavour kit kats a few years back while going to the store World Market in the US. (One of the 1st times I remember wanting to go to Japan, just for the candy alone. And ever since then, TH-cam Japan has been my go to info for my future trip.) And those kit kats DID NOT disappoint. I went at a different time and they had a different variety of Kit Kat and I regret that I don't remember the flavour. I ate the whole bag in like two days, they were so good. I've seen more variety in the US at the Uwajima grocery store, but they are pricey and I feel I will regret the buy.
I thought that Ruby referred to the Ruby Grapefruit. But I love Strawberry Cheesecake, so I would like to try those. And the lemon/lime ones. I just about put Lemon and salt in everything I eat, so the combo with chocolate would be an experience.
We tried the whole grain from World Market, really enjoyed it. We'll be in Japan next October, this will help us cherry pick!
Hi Norm! Fun fact, I actually wrote a research paper on KitKats in Japan, for my Japanese Marketing class at a Japanese University. Including a separate section for the KitKat Chocolatory that you visited in Osaka. The Ruby KitKat is actually its own unique type of chocolate. To me it had a faint strawberry taste. My favorite flavor of KitKat in Japan is sakura kinako!
Eii caught it before 1 hour. Thx for the new vid norm!
I'm liking this video solely for the dedication and the risk of a bad stomach ache from eating so much chocolate in one go.😂
Also it's super interesting that Japan's obsession with Kit Kat is because of a wordplay, I guess it's really fitting since they do enjoy wordplay and puns over there a lot.
THIS WAS A RIOT !! OM Goodness - you are so crazy funny !! I hope you didn't have a tummy ache after !! Thanks for this !!!!
I have gotten my hands on a delivery of 30 Kitkat types from Japan, once. I was excited, as you were! I dove into them, as you did. And I also regreted my decision pretty early on. Also some of the tastes I did not get at all, but when those small things hit, they hit hard and let you want more of them ^_^
I have watched some of your videos, including this one and your videos are adventures, educational and funny.
Can't wait for the next video.
Awesome, thank you!
Those milktea ones sound fantastic
The tokyo island lemon one was so nice i regretted not getting like 20 boxes while I was there. I will be returning partly just for those kitkats...
I would like to try the strawberry, milk tea, whole grain, and hojicha. Classic green tea Kit Kats are always a treat for me.
Oh, and maybe the passion fruit , ruby, and apple, just cuz I’m curious.
@TokyoLens Playlists created with the cities or countries as titles for Japan would be useful. Ex. videos in Osaka, videos in Kyoto etc. To document or review how many cities/countries you've visited since 2003. Maybe a lot of work but it could be an alternate playlist that is very helpful alongside your current playlist titles. Keep exploring.
Always love your vids, man! I hope you go back to Shikoku to visit Yohei soon! My favorite Tokyo Lens vid by far. Cheers.
I hope so too!
Can't wait to watch this video! I'm going to japan for the first time in a few months and a goal of mine is to try out many kitkat flavors hehe :) lots of love from the netherlands!
thanks so much eh!
When you can only obtain 5 favours 🤤
might be for the best lol
I keep finding more wierd KitKat flavors here in Colorado, and some of them I refuse to buy as they are only in full-size bars. I’m already not a fan of blueberry, so when they made blueberry muffin, I avoided it. They had a chocolate strawberry that was just wierd. Honestly, the only ones I really like (so far anyway) are original, dark chocoalte, and dark chocolate mint. I think I tried the “mocha” flavored one, but it was just meh.
Lucky. My country only has 1.
In Brazil we only have 2 flavors. Dark an milk chocolate.
@@AmandadeOliveira in Australia 🇦🇺 1 flavour
Best Kitti Katto I had so far is Maple flavoured. And smells so gooood when opening the wrapper. Might as well use the wrapper as a car freshner😁
Love ya norm. Keep having fun, dude.
I'd go for the Sake Kit-Kat every time. Haven't tried the 72% cocoa one but Sake was the best.
When I visited Japan in 2019 I got the Fuji cheesecake, both sake, and a limited edition sakura blossom flavor. the red sake was my least favorite too but when I took the extras to work, they were snatched up quick by my Japanese co-workers. I think it's actually too accurate for me to enjoy, so in some regard it's very well made.
14:30 Ruby is a type of chocolate, I found that out when I went on the Saint Augustine chocolate tour. Because it’s really popular here it might’ve been discovered here. I don’t remember about that. It comes from Mexico. But it’s part of the dark chocolate, milk, chocolate white chocolate, which is technically chocolate family. it’s my favorite actually besides dark coming in a close second
Did you know? They've been releasing flavored KitKat in the States for a couple years now. The best (imho) have been blueberry muffin and cinnamon horchata. The horchata one is such a banger!!!
New goal set for my next trip to Japan. Last time I went I got try 8 or 9 different flavours. The Tokyo Banner edition was awesome. Maxed out my duty free carry on the way back by purchased dozen big boxes of all the flavours they did in the air port.
I thought it was wild when we got peanut butter Kit Kats in the UK...
Would love to visit Japan and spend a whole day in a Kit Kat store.
I've had some of those flavours that were available at an import food store in Canada. Very pricey over here. Favourites were the whole grain, double macha, peach, and salt lemon.
Wish I could get that many flavors!!! Some of them sound amazing!!
I knew Japan had a lot of kitkat flavors but not this much. I’d love to try some of those they look yummy!
I can find some flavours at my local Japanese supermarket and I always bring down some on business trips to the US and they are always a hit with my colleagues!
Hey Norm. My favourite Japanese KitKat flavours are: Milk Tea, A version of the strawberry, and the Salt Lemon. Yum! I wasn't so keen on the alcohol flavoured ones, and in our Japan Crate years back, I wasn't keen on the Sweet Potato flavour either. Still many more I want to try.
Ahhh it's been a while since I've watched you! Been too busy with exams, perfect video to relax to! I'll have to try these myself next year, hopefully 👀
Can’t wait!!
Best of luck on exams!! You got this!! 💪
@@TokyoLens Thanks!
I’ve had a number of those here in the States. The chocolate orange blew my mind/tastebuds. Might be my all time favorite. I’ve never had the sake ones, but would like to try them. It usually takes me a few weeks to get through a package of 10 KitKats. I can’t imagine doing 30+ in one sitting.