Japanese chocolate

When it comes to chocolate, we often talk about Belgian chocolate as the premium and best of all. Sure, those are really good quality chocolate but for the sake of variety, I like to try chocolates from as many countries as possible. I have tried Swiss chocolate, German chocolate, Italian chocolate and American chocolate.

You may think chocolate taste the same wherever it came from but I beg to differ. There are very distinctive different in taste and flavor in the chocolates that came from different countries and manufacturers. Perhaps it is the different processes they go through or perhaps, it is the ingredients they used.

So, recently I decided to give Japanese chocolate a try. I have always loved Japanese food and the occasional Japanese junk food so, why not give their chocolates a try? So, I picked up a few packets of Japanese chocolate for some chocolate tasting session and guess what? I absolutely loved it!

Their dark chocolate is absolutely heavenly; smooth, creamy, just the right amount of sweetness and yum, yum, rich and just slight tinge of bitterness. Definitely my kind of chocolate! Though a tad expensive as compared to other imported chocolates, it is well worth the price. Their milk chocolate is also similarly wonderful. There is even an easy melt kind called ‘Meltykiss’ which I particularly liked. Just pop it into your mouth and you will immediately get a burst of sweet, creamy chocolaty sensation melting on your tongue.

My only problem with Japanese chocolates is that the packaging is mainly in Japanese with only the name of the chocolate in English. Even the ingredients are in Japanese and a basic sticker loosely translating it in English was pasted above it. So, if you are the type who wants to know the detailed ingredients of the chocolates, either you have to learn up Japanese or you will have to make do with the loose translation.

I just hope one day they would come out with better packaging with an international appeal…but then, we are talking about Japanese stuff here, I doubt that they even cared about appealing to the international market when they have their very own self-sustaining market…