Posts Tagged ‘mitsuwa’
Pocky and Calbee
I’m not an avid consumer of Pocky, as hard as that might be to believe. I’m not a pocky fan or one of those people that create a shrine for Pocky. I look at it realistically and think…
“well, it’s a biscuit stick dipped in frosting”
I think the last time I had Pocky was mm….5 years ago? Anyway, I finally decided to buy a box and relive the Pocky moment. This was a special blueberry pocky. Tsubu Tsubu Blueberry. What’s tsubu tsubu? I’m going to guess frothy.
Of course it comes in a nice box with a specific way to open it. I love it when my box tells me how to open him. It leaves nothing to the imagination!
There were originally…four…packets…but uh…three of them mysteriously decided to disappear.
The plastic wrap was semi translucent with cute blueberries around it. When you open the wrapping, you can reeeeeally smell the blueberry. It was reeeeally good. They need to make pocky in huge buckets or something. Each stick is gobbled up in about .5 a second. I suppose this really teaches me to savor everything. I have a feeling I’m going to lose a lot of weight if I go to Japan.
I picked this up because it was on sale and it’s ume flavored! Plum….mmmm.
Little specs of the ume. This chip was…weird to taste. It was like…salty…sour…if it didn’t look like a chip I would think it was barf. But because it was a chip, it was acceptable? I know that sounds really weird.
Yummy Tuna Bowl
Last week, I tried this bowl out and it was soooooooooooooooo yummy. And only like….$5 something! There was another one topped with crab meat, but…..sometimes that kind of crab meat just tastes salty, you know? So I got the tuna, and it was sooooooooooooooo good. Sooooooooooooooooo good. In the next few days, I was dreaming about eating it again. So I did…and it was soooooooooooooooooo good. I mean…it tastes just like the sushi, but….eating it like this, in a bowl, is kind of different! There is something amazing about wolfing down a bowl instead of picking up pieces one by one and eating them.
This week, I went to Mitsuwa again to eat this…and they didn’t have it anymore. Was it a limited edition? What was so special about last week? Will I never be able to experience the yummy goodness that is this bowl? /cry At least I got to eat it two times…
Cheese Bit
These are…ooooooooookay. They are very light though, and I’m guessing they are more healthy than your average American brand salty chip. These are more like puffs in the shape of tiny chips.
1/3 of the package is 6g of fat, 140mg of sodium (pretty good I think), and 2% Calcium, woohoo!
Mitsuwa love
There are so many home-ec things at Mitsuwa that are so tempting to buy. Those Japanese people really know how to make things that look so efficient and clean! You buy it and you want to think “This will really work! Look how wonderful it is!” and they really pay attention to their packaging. I bought this air freshener today. You should see the instructions on how to assemble it. There is a square felt piece you put over the felt inserts that soak up the perfume so that it disperses, and if you want an extra boost, you can press to spray. The cover says “Air wash, mist plus. Fruit flora fragrance (?)”
There are little colored transparent balls in the liquid that float around. So cute! What is it made out of? I almost want to fish them out but I don’t want to ruin their habitat! There may be a specific balance of chemicals that I don’t want to disrupt <: (.
I also got something I’ve had my eye on for awhile.
Mikan-chan. Lip cream! The label seems to say there is collagen in it “Koraagen”. oOooo. The reason why I got this is because it’s shaped in a cute little mikan! Kind of like the little Cuties clementines you see at the market, or manderin oranges. And it smells sooooooooo good. I wish I could waft some of this smell onto the internet. They have these in a bigger size for hand lotion as well.
You can smell it once you open it. MmmmM! Imagine this in your purse…eee! > <. Totally a summer must-have for me. They have a red apple one…and I’m sure I’ve seen another kind…I think it was peach. Peach!! Maybe I have to get that one too.