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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 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 😄
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 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 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!
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!
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!!
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).
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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’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😊
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.
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.
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!!!
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!
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.
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!
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 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)
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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'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 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.
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.
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!
Loved this one. Once a year my coworkers and I buy different Japanese Kit Kats. Haven't tried one of the matcha flavored ones or for caffe. Thanks for some suggestions
@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.
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!
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
I tried 40 something of the Japanese Kit Kat over the years. My fav is still the passionfruit one, which was available back in 2013. I still keep a list of the flavours I tried, but a lot of them aren't that 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).
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!!
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.
Shinshu used to be what's now part of Nagano-ken and has loads of apples. They are also famous for their apple beer. If you can find it, please try Ogna Apple Hop from Minami Shinshu beer. It's usually released end of August when they start harvesting apples.
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. 🙂
My wife bought some candies that were salt lemon flavour, she said it was a type summer flavour because it is so hot and people sweat and the salt gives them electrolytes. I like the candies but they make me thirsty, but I think that is kind of the point.
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 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'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.
Ruby chocolate is a niche kind of chocolate. Hard to explain, but it has something to do with where and how the chocolate is grown as well as a fermentation process the beans go through.
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.
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!!!
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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)
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 love Kit Kats but I don't think I would have the stomach to try every flavor. My favourite is actually the Match otona no amasa flavor because to me the normal matcha is too sweet ^^ I hope this much sugar didn't make you feel sick!
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.
We have a big kitkats in Australia (170g) that come in great flavours, but I always wish they'd do them in smaller sizes like the Japanese ones. I think you'd like the one with dark chocolate and freeze dried raspberries! My favourite is the mint cookies and cream 😍
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.
My favourite one that I managed to ship to Canada - I got approx 60 flavours - and my favourite is the Melon (light/bright green packaging) I also LOVE the whole wheat biscuit flavour one (5:18) But the original is still incredible!
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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)
The packaging is what I really like. The amount of effort they place on presenting it.
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.
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 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 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!
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!
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!
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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
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).
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Bought the biscuit ones today for the first time and you described it perfect!
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’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😊
I enjoyed the Kit Kat trip that you just took us on. Well done and thank you for indulging for us.
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.
I was just googling Japanese Kit Kat flavors the other day and now this is in my inbox. Amazing!
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.
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.
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!!!
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!
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.
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!
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 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)
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!
Hey Norm, excited for this one! I love Japanese Kit Kat varieties.
just sooooo many!
The rum raisin and banana are really good-there are so many that it would be crazy trying to cover them all
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!
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.
btw, 7:24 信州 is the original name of Nagano prefecture. So these would be Nagano Apple flavoured Kit Kats.
Milk tea,and the crispy chocolate. White are my favorite
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 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!
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.
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
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
I hope you are okay after the recent earthquakes. Sending love to you and your friends over there.. Much love from New Zealand xx.
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.
the ruby one is probably ruby chocolate, which is a style of chocolate that is naturally pink
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 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.
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.
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!
Loved this one. Once a year my coworkers and I buy different Japanese Kit Kats. Haven't tried one of the matcha flavored ones or for caffe. Thanks for some suggestions
@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.
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!
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
I tried 40 something of the Japanese Kit Kat over the years. My fav is still the passionfruit one, which was available back in 2013. I still keep a list of the flavours I tried, but a lot of them aren't that good.
The milk tea kitkat is quite nice and I’m a fan of the melon ones as well
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).
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!!
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.
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).
Shinshu used to be what's now part of Nagano-ken and has loads of apples. They are also famous for their apple beer. If you can find it, please try Ogna Apple Hop from Minami Shinshu beer.
It's usually released end of August when they start harvesting apples.
I'd go for the Sake Kit-Kat every time. Haven't tried the 72% cocoa one but Sake was the best.
I love kit kat
So did I... until I did this lol
nah.....i think tim tam is better
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 😮
My wife bought some candies that were salt lemon flavour, she said it was a type summer flavour because it is so hot and people sweat and the salt gives them electrolytes. I like the candies but they make me thirsty, but I think that is kind of the point.
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 💜💜
The Shinshu Apple is a branding of apple from Nagano.
Similar to when people say "Uji Matcha" or "Kobe beef"
The Shinshu is used with Nagano Apple
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 :)
The green tea ones are amazing!
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.
Ruby chocolate is a niche kind of chocolate. Hard to explain, but it has something to do with where and how the chocolate is grown as well as a fermentation process the beans go through.
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.
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!!!
The salt lemon is so good!
The Okinawan Puple sweet potato KitKat is my favorite out of all candies and sweets. I have not been able to find them again.
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...
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 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.
I knew Japan had a lot of kitkat flavors but not this much. I’d love to try some of those they look yummy!
Sake kitkat is the best. I haven't tried them all but it is my favorite by far 11/10
Shinshu apple is from Nagano! From the Shinshu region in Matsumoto city ( my friends went to Shinshu university, great place!)
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.
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 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.
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)
Phew. I'm so curious about the umeshu ones but I was also not a fan of the sake option so am glad to hear a high review.
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 love Kit Kats but I don't think I would have the stomach to try every flavor. My favourite is actually the Match otona no amasa flavor because to me the normal matcha is too sweet ^^ I hope this much sugar didn't make you feel sick!
I was... very sick lol
We tried the whole grain from World Market, really enjoyed it. We'll be in Japan next October, this will help us cherry pick!
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.
I’ve tried a few of them. My favorite was the green tea flavor. I’d love to try the sake one.
We have a big kitkats in Australia (170g) that come in great flavours, but I always wish they'd do them in smaller sizes like the Japanese ones. I think you'd like the one with dark chocolate and freeze dried raspberries! My favourite is the mint cookies and cream 😍
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.
My favourite one that I managed to ship to Canada - I got approx 60 flavours - and my favourite is the Melon (light/bright green packaging)
I also LOVE the whole wheat biscuit flavour one (5:18)
But the original is still incredible!
You’re a gem. Don’t change. Love your unique perspectives. So enjoy your videos