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Have a break, have a wasabi Kit Kat. Anyone?

22/2/2012

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An extraordinary hot chocolate
I ate my first Platetrotter present today and (mainly for my sake) I'm glad it tasted a lot better than it sounded.

It was a wasabi Kit Kat all the way from Japan, courtesy my cousin.

Yup, a wasabi Kit Kat. Apparently Japan has a thing for flavoured Kit Kat. You can get everything from rather tasty sounding Berry Wine and Custard Pudding  to the downright strange Camembert Cheese, Lemon Vinegar and Soya Sauce varieties. They even have regional versions that vary from north to south based on locally preferred delicacies. This site has a run down of some of the more unusual flavours.

Anyone who has added too enthusiastic a helping of wasabi to their sushi will know that wasabi is a taste - or more a sensation - that needs a bit of getting used to. The root, known as Japanese horseradish, has a similar burn-your-nasal-passages effect that hot mustard has. Not really a flavour I'd imagine going well with chocolate. Chocolate + chilli, yes, and if done right  really delicious. Chocolate and wasabi? I wasn't convinced.

For starters I was expecting dark chocolate. But the wasabi Kit Kat was a very light green achieved by adding wasabi to white chocolate. I think the wasabi + white chocolate combo worked well - sweet to start off with, then the crunch of the wafer, followed by the lingering wasabi flavour. Pungent but surprisingly light, I'm glad the wasabi didn't make it's presence too prominently felt.

All in all, I'd eat it again - which isn't really what I expected to say when I first heard about my edible Japanese present :)
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It may look minty green but it doesn't taste it
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Devina Divecha (FooDee) link
22/2/2012 05:06:07 am

I'm actually not surprised to see Wasabi Kit Kat since I've seen something similar (can't remember if it was Kit Kat or not) in a specialty candy store in London before. Just a 15-20 minute walk from my flat, there was this awesome little place in Angel, which had the most random of sweets you could hope to find...ranging from the weirdest flavours to funny shapes and so on.

Camembert cheese Kit Kat??? Interesting! I'd try that :D

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Radhina
22/2/2012 01:36:36 pm

That sounds like the sort of store that would sell Every Flavour Beans à la Harry Potter :)

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Didi link
22/2/2012 04:13:04 pm

I read through the list of flavors...i'd love to have the Ramune soda flavored one! It's one of my favorite carbonated drinks evah!

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Rana
22/2/2012 05:03:35 pm

Can't stand wasabi but glad it tasted good for you :-)
Keep the exotic flavours coming!!!

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FooDiva link
22/2/2012 05:19:05 pm

Am a huge Kit Kat and wasabi fan so wish I'd come across it when I was in Japan. But somehow I think it would taste better with the bitterness of dark chocolate.

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Radhina
23/2/2012 01:14:48 am

Thought so too until I actually tasted it and think the white chocolate mellows it well. But dark chocolate and chilli all the way :)

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