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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.
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 :)
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)
"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.
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.
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 😄
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 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.
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!
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!!
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!
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.
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).
It's really amazing, to see the brand that was once a British, made by a Quaker, bought by a Swiss company, yet had signature products in Japan that couldn't be found in another place in the world.
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
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!
Casis - black currant The white one with black speck - either "stracciatella" or "cookies and creme" Ruby- a mutation of the cacao bean. The pink color is natural and it tends to have a "fruity" taste
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
I had a Tokyo Treat Box subscription for almost two years, almost every box came with a different flavour of Kit Kat, i ended up saving one from each package until i finished my subscription and basically did what you are doing in this video, yeah its really easy to underestimate how much there is to eat and how bad you will feel afterwards. props to you Norm.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
I was getting full myself just watching the video. It's nice to see you dabble in things other than your conventional content so we can see a different side of you Norm. I think my favourite flavour would have been the matcha ones. Great job, Norm.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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🍁
I used to date a flight attendant who lived in Doha and worked for Qatar Airways. She was flying in to Montreal every month and she'd be here for about a week. She would always bring me snacks from around the world (from her other flight destinations) and she often brought me unique flavors of KitKats from Japan. I can't remember which one of these that I've tried other than the matcha flavor. Fun video nevertheless, hope you enjoyed getting around to this lol
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!
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!
14:25 more recently a 4th kind of chocolate was introduced known as “ruby” chocolate. I believe that’s what they are using on this Kit Kat :) Also typically flavors like citrus pair the best with white chocolate, and passion fruit is a great match with it too.
Flashback to when a friend and I did this with all the Japanese kitkats we could get our hands on from HMart, Mitsuwa, Daiso, and other Asian markets near us. Fun video!
I love Kit Kats but I’m diabetic. I always wonder what the different Kit Kats taste like. I had no idea there were so much interesting flavors. I really enjoy your channel. Thank you very much for sharing.
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😊
Milk Chocolate + wafer + catchy name = instant classic. Infinite potential for variations in flavoring. Greater mystery is that why aren't other countries experimenting as much with flavors?
The Ruby Flavor one at 14:25 is the "new" type of chocolate that was made in 2017. So there is now dark, milk, white, and ruby chocolate (though its definitely just marketing) (blonde, raw, and Gianduja chocolate are also distinct types according to wikipedia)
I still have so many kitkats I got from Japan! My favorite has to be the apple ones I got from the snow monkey village! I also had the sake one..wasn't a fan either lol and I LOVE sake and chocolate..just not together apparently. Lol I need to go back and get them all 😅😅 Much love from Arizona 💜💜
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.
I've tried about a third of these. I really wish some of the more common flavours were available in the UK. Especially milk tea and salt lemon. Nom nom.
I hope you did not make yourself sick from all that. I love Kit Kats in the US, the dark chocolate ones are the best. I have to say Japan is truly is the home of Kit Kat no matter where they originated from because they have more flavors than there should ever be.
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. 😊
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
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.
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! 😊
Hi Norm (@TokyoLens) , just a note for the "Shinshuu" Apple ones (10/10). Those are Nagano prefecture apple flavor. Shinshuu is an old term for Nagano prefecture, which is where I lived for several years. Glad you like the apples which they are famous for!
I got a blood sugar peak just watching you haha Hope this hasn't disgusted you from eating kitkats ^^ I think I'll get some of these as omiyage during my next trip to Japan :D Hope your liver recovers swiftly from all that!
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.
Glad to know that Norm is also part of the red and white raglan mafia. It's just a sort of kinship that you can only understand if you have specifically owned a red and white raglan shirt.😂 As of writing this (12/18/23) I was also wearing a red and white raglan, and this served as the motivation for my comment.
This was a lot of fun to watch, even if I was wincing the further in you got with the amount of chocolate you were eating, thinking about what a stomach ache that must give. 🙂 And for reference, the Ruby flavor is a reference to the chocolate itself. Ruby chocolate is another type of chocolate in the vein of white, milk or dark, with a natural reddish/pink color. So, there wasn't really meant to be a "flavor" beyond that type of chocolate. It is said that ruby chocolate is actually slightly acidic compared to other types of chocolate. 🙂
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.
I've gotten onto the habit of clearing the notifications on my phone, without really looking at them. And in the split second I see the thumbnail, I somehow can always tell if a notification is for one of your videos, and I always get excited. Also, I can only eat one or two candies at a time. Anymore and I feel sick. I'd hate to have to eat all of that candy. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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 :)
I read somewhere a few years ago Shinshu Apple is a hybrid of Fuji and Gala apples to get a breed that has the red colour of the Gala but the crispiness and juiciness of Fuji.
last year when i went to japan, i bought many kitkats.. my favorite was Sake SO GOOD, Wasabi and classic Matcha... i like Sake one because it has that boozey feels yet sweet..
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).
@@TokyoLensalmost 😂... I love how the bites keep getting smaller and the sights and pauses before the bites, longer and longer 😂😂 At some point I would love to try the dark chocolate ones (and probably the "for coffee") but right now I have sympathy indigestion 🤢🥲
I heard that there are more than 300 varieties but during ny recent visit, I could hardly pickup some 5-6 varieties only. Sadly they don't have all at one place. People would pay extra to get everything at one place as this avoids lot of costly search in terms of time and travel expenses.
I was talking to a Japanese IRL streamer recently who didn't know what kitkat was, i was like how?! haha. It's featured so much in foreigner videos in Japan but actual Japanese may not actually pay a whole lot attention to it. I imagine especially those who simply don't eat a lot of packaged candy/junk food.
next up, all the Strong Zero flavors in a year! Their peach mango is still very memorable for me, that's the only chuhai that gave me the munchies XD I'm sending this video to anyone going to Japan so they don't have to do the good ol' spray-n-pray Kitkat buying spree at Don Quijote and run out of budget for the good stuff like traditional/regional snacks that you can only usually get by going to the place or at the airport (if you're lucky; NGO had a very sad duty-free section when I passed by March 2023)
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.
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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.
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)
"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.
The packaging is what I really like. The amount of effort they place on presenting it.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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).
It's really amazing, to see the brand that was once a British, made by a Quaker, bought by a Swiss company, yet had signature products in Japan that couldn't be found in another place in the world.
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
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!
Casis - black currant
The white one with black speck - either "stracciatella" or "cookies and creme"
Ruby- a mutation of the cacao bean. The pink color is natural and it tends to have a "fruity" taste
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.
Hey Norm, excited for this one! I love Japanese Kit Kat varieties.
just sooooo many!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I enjoyed the Kit Kat trip that you just took us on. Well done and thank you for indulging for us.
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!
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!
I had a Tokyo Treat Box subscription for almost two years, almost every box came with a different flavour of Kit Kat, i ended up saving one from each package until i finished my subscription and basically did what you are doing in this video, yeah its really easy to underestimate how much there is to eat and how bad you will feel afterwards. props to you Norm.
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.
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.
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.
Bought the biscuit ones today for the first time and you described it perfect!
I have never been a enjoyer of any of the content creators like you make, Except I love your stuff! Good Job Sir.
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!!!
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 was getting full myself just watching the video. It's nice to see you dabble in things other than your conventional content so we can see a different side of you Norm. I think my favourite flavour would have been the matcha ones. Great job, Norm.
definitely over filled myself haha
thank you Tokyo lens for another years worth of great videos ,love from Australia 🐨🦘🕷
All too kind
Thank you for being the type of person that you are~
I love that Japanese gives out kitkats during exam seasons. They even have sections for you to write message at the back (kitkat from japan).
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!!
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.
A classic genre of JP YT content But I love them all, cause it's always about the CC's tastes and experiences.
sometimes you just have to go with a classic!
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.
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.
Hey Norm, just want to let you know that I am in a difficult phase of my life rn. Your videos make me smile.
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.
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!
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🍁
I used to date a flight attendant who lived in Doha and worked for Qatar Airways. She was flying in to Montreal every month and she'd be here for about a week. She would always bring me snacks from around the world (from her other flight destinations) and she often brought me unique flavors of KitKats from Japan. I can't remember which one of these that I've tried other than the matcha flavor. Fun video nevertheless, hope you enjoyed getting around to this lol
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!
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!
14:25 more recently a 4th kind of chocolate was introduced known as “ruby” chocolate. I believe that’s what they are using on this Kit Kat :)
Also typically flavors like citrus pair the best with white chocolate, and passion fruit is a great match with it too.
Flashback to when a friend and I did this with all the Japanese kitkats we could get our hands on from HMart, Mitsuwa, Daiso, and other Asian markets near us.
Fun video!
Oh nice!
I love Kit Kats but I’m diabetic. I always wonder what the different Kit Kats taste like. I had no idea there were so much interesting flavors. I really enjoy your channel. Thank you very much for sharing.
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😊
REALLY appreciate you chewing with your mouth close. Better manners and review than 90% of cooking shows
Awww ☺️ too kind
Milk Chocolate + wafer + catchy name = instant classic. Infinite potential for variations in flavoring. Greater mystery is that why aren't other countries experimenting as much with flavors?
The Ruby Flavor one at 14:25 is the "new" type of chocolate that was made in 2017. So there is now dark, milk, white, and ruby chocolate (though its definitely just marketing) (blonde, raw, and Gianduja chocolate are also distinct types according to wikipedia)
I still have so many kitkats I got from Japan! My favorite has to be the apple ones I got from the snow monkey village! I also had the sake one..wasn't a fan either lol and I LOVE sake and chocolate..just not together apparently. Lol I need to go back and get them all 😅😅
Much love from Arizona 💜💜
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.
I've tried about a third of these. I really wish some of the more common flavours were available in the UK. Especially milk tea and salt lemon. Nom nom.
I love chocolate and Kit Kats, but I think that you are a very brave man for undertaking this challenge.
I hope you did not make yourself sick from all that. I love Kit Kats in the US, the dark chocolate ones are the best. I have to say Japan is truly is the home of Kit Kat no matter where they originated from because they have more flavors than there should ever be.
Bonus comment
Those boxes for kit kats seems so weird, and fancy.
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. 😊
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
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.
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 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!
Hi Norm (@TokyoLens) , just a note for the "Shinshuu" Apple ones (10/10). Those are Nagano prefecture apple flavor. Shinshuu is an old term for Nagano prefecture, which is where I lived for several years. Glad you like the apples which they are famous for!
The rum raisin and banana are really good-there are so many that it would be crazy trying to cover them all
I got a blood sugar peak just watching you haha Hope this hasn't disgusted you from eating kitkats ^^ I think I'll get some of these as omiyage during my next trip to Japan :D
Hope your liver recovers swiftly from all that!
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.
Just leaving a comment to salute norms stomach really taking one for the team 🫡
Glad to know that Norm is also part of the red and white raglan mafia. It's just a sort of kinship that you can only understand if you have specifically owned a red and white raglan shirt.😂
As of writing this (12/18/23) I was also wearing a red and white raglan, and this served as the motivation for my comment.
I hope you are okay after the recent earthquakes. Sending love to you and your friends over there.. Much love from New Zealand xx.
"Mis-estimated" has now been added to my vocabulary. I need to get my hands on some of those special Kit Kats at the end!
btw, 7:24 信州 is the original name of Nagano prefecture. So these would be Nagano Apple flavoured Kit Kats.
This was a lot of fun to watch, even if I was wincing the further in you got with the amount of chocolate you were eating, thinking about what a stomach ache that must give. 🙂
And for reference, the Ruby flavor is a reference to the chocolate itself. Ruby chocolate is another type of chocolate in the vein of white, milk or dark, with a natural reddish/pink color. So, there wasn't really meant to be a "flavor" beyond that type of chocolate. It is said that ruby chocolate is actually slightly acidic compared to other types of chocolate. 🙂
Ohhh 😮
I knew Japan had a lot of kitkat flavors but not this much. I’d love to try some of those they look yummy!
The Okinawan Puple sweet potato KitKat is my favorite out of all candies and sweets. I have not been able to find them again.
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.
Was going to sleep then saw your notification and clicked on it immediately 😍
same bat time! same bat channel!
Japan is really adventurous with flavours. There’s me thinking I’m adventurous trying the mint flavour
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.
I've gotten onto the habit of clearing the notifications on my phone, without really looking at them. And in the split second I see the thumbnail, I somehow can always tell if a notification is for one of your videos, and I always get excited. Also, I can only eat one or two candies at a time. Anymore and I feel sick. I'd hate to have to eat all of that candy. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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 :)
I read somewhere a few years ago Shinshu Apple is a hybrid of Fuji and Gala apples to get a breed that has the red colour of the Gala but the crispiness and juiciness of Fuji.
13:00 “I don't know how I feel about that one. Good enough to go for the second half” 😄
last year when i went to japan, i bought many kitkats..
my favorite was Sake SO GOOD, Wasabi and classic Matcha... i like Sake one because it has that boozey feels yet sweet..
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).
🤤🤤🤤... 19 min of KitKat is a lot of KitKat 😂😂
almost.... too much haha
@@TokyoLensalmost 😂... I love how the bites keep getting smaller and the sights and pauses before the bites, longer and longer 😂😂 At some point I would love to try the dark chocolate ones (and probably the "for coffee") but right now I have sympathy indigestion 🤢🥲
You’re a gem. Don’t change. Love your unique perspectives. So enjoy your videos
I heard that there are more than 300 varieties but during ny recent visit, I could hardly pickup some 5-6 varieties only. Sadly they don't have all at one place. People would pay extra to get everything at one place as this avoids lot of costly search in terms of time and travel expenses.
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 was talking to a Japanese IRL streamer recently who didn't know what kitkat was, i was like how?! haha. It's featured so much in foreigner videos in Japan but actual Japanese may not actually pay a whole lot attention to it. I imagine especially those who simply don't eat a lot of packaged candy/junk food.
next up, all the Strong Zero flavors in a year! Their peach mango is still very memorable for me, that's the only chuhai that gave me the munchies XD
I'm sending this video to anyone going to Japan so they don't have to do the good ol' spray-n-pray Kitkat buying spree at Don Quijote and run out of budget for the good stuff like traditional/regional snacks that you can only usually get by going to the place or at the airport (if you're lucky; NGO had a very sad duty-free section when I passed by March 2023)
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.