Friday 6 September 2013

Francis Pineapple cakes

Got these lovely Taiwanese pineapple cakes from a friend.

The pastel blue packaging and design was really nice, each pineapple cake was individually wrapped and colour coded.






There were five flavours: 
-Coconut
-Lemon
-Walnut and coffee
-Macadamia and sunflower seeds
-Flax seeds
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Coconut:


I really liked this because it had dried coconut flakes on the pastry which gave it a great mouthfeel and coconutty taste.
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Lemon:

Lemon was also my favourite because it was refreshing and an unusual flavour.
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Walnut and coffee:


The flavour of this was quite strong with a hint of coffee that was not bitter balanced by the walnuts.
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Macadamia and sunflower seeds:
This was had a lot of texture in it because there were sunflower seeds and macadamia pieces in it.
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Flaxseeds:
This one was similar to the above, but flaxseeds are smaller than sunflower seeds.
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Egaonowakka 徳用チョコ

From the packaging you can't quite guess what these are because its all in Japanese.


On the English it is labelled as: Choco snack.

Basically it is a hollow corn stick coated in delicious chocolate.


The corn snack reminds me of maize crisps such as monster munch but a sweet version.

The taste of these snacks were really nice and it tastes really familiar to something which I can't remember.

www.riska.co.jp

Fauchon paris asahi eclair sweet milk tea

Got this because it was Eclair flavoured.
A very unusual flavour! But in Japan they have all sorts of unusual flavours.
It was really sweet and had a lovely sweet scent, it basically tastes like silky western milk tea without the bitterness and it was like candy and drinks flavoured by famous syrups such as Monins.

The colour of the tea was the usual dark beige.

Nongshim Pizza snacks & Spicy chicken bowl noodle

Got these because they reminded me of these crisps in the UK.
They are a Korean and surprisingly they are manufactured by Nongshim which are famous for pot noodles!!
The taste was slightly disappointing because there was no pizza taste, it just tasted of herbs and fake carotene/paprika.

As well as snacks, I also tried their noodles.
Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of the one in red black cups but I do have pictures of the spicy chicken.
The spicy chicken was really flavourful but a bit too spicy and salty.





Lotte Pepero cocao 45%

Addictive chocolate covered pret sticks because the chocolate was strong and not too sweet just like dark chocolate.







Hokkaido lake mashu mineral water 北海道の天然水 摩周湖

Mineral water from Lake Mashu in Hokkaido.
http://www.masyuuko.jp/order.php

Lake Masyu Baby WATER 赤ちゃんWATER

北海道の天然水「摩周湖」は、今もなお、原生の森に護られながら、清らかで美しい水をたたえる摩周湖から染み出た天然の水です。
http://www.masyuuko.jp/order.php

Intrigued by bottles of baby water, I had to try it!
After googling it, I found out that the water comes from the Masyu Lake in Japan.
The taste was really nice and similar Volvic mineral water.
The labelling in Hong Kong seems a bit different to their website. 


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