Pocky/Pejoy series: Strawberry and Vanilla Pejoy
Regular readers might remember a post earlier this year about Pocky/Pejoy. Well… after that one post, I haven’t posted any more on the different flavours that Bro brought back from China/HK for me! I’ve been eating them (and purchasing more flavours) – it just hasn’t translated into blog posts. Tsk tsk.
I’m determined to get through them. Take this as my November resolution!
I’ll kick off with this one – Strawberry and Vanilla Pejoy. I love the box on this one. It read: Age of innocence, a memory of sweetness and sourness. Recollect the romance like tasting fresh strawberries with rich cream. Love the taste, stay in the sweet memory for good.
What is that supposed to mean? I don’t know. But it sounds nice!
Like other Pejoys, there is a biscuit stick that’s much more savoury, and the flavour is in the pink “cream” inside the stick. The initial flavour is of a chemical strawberry – like eating lip gloss. It wasn’t that sweet, but there was a very pronounced chemical/fake strawberry aroma, and it ended with a strawberry milk aftertaste.
I didn’t think it was particularly great and I wouldn’t rush to eat it again. Plus I didn’t recollect the romance or stay in the sweet memory. I feel a bit cheated.
For more Pocky/Peejoy posts (sorry, there’s only one other so far!): check here.
November 11, 2010 @ 11:11 pm
And there better be a squillion more of these posts to come! It makes me remember (fondly) the boxes of Japanese Pocky and chocolates and candies my brother used to send me when he was teaching in Japan… I remember liking a Pocky that had three different layers of chocolate (of course…) but think the fruit ones were icky-poo. So you can keep the artificial strawberry ones.
(Unless you still have some of these around in early December… in which case, you might soon find you don’t anymore.)
November 16, 2010 @ 10:56 pm
Right, hide Pocky from Hannah. Must write that on the to-do list.
November 17, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Oooh, bad move, BFF. You should’ve said “eat Pocky before Hannah arrives”. This way, I know it’s somewhere in your house…
November 12, 2010 @ 12:06 am
Heheh, I love Asian-ified English descriptions! They always sound so deep and meaningful, yet mean absolutely nothing at all. Like reading horoscopes, really.
Must say I haven’t sampled that many Pocky varieties. I just keep returning to the original chocolate one of my childhood…Now that’s a sweet memory!
November 16, 2010 @ 10:58 pm
Gotta love a bit of Chinglish! And the original chocolate Pocky is gooood!
November 12, 2010 @ 7:05 am
I discover these “pokeys” about ten years ago when we hosted a Japanese student, she brought a bunch of flavours for the children as a gift. My favourite is the strawberry and vanilla too as it reminds me of a Nestle chocolate I used to have as a kids 🙂 When we get them from Japan they useually have “Hello Kitty” pictures on the box or other cartoon charatures, very cute!
November 16, 2010 @ 10:59 pm
I love all the cute packaging you can get in Japan. They also have so many different flavoured snacks that you can’t get overseas. Love Japan!
November 12, 2010 @ 10:16 am
“Like eating lip gloss”? Bahaha, I know exactly what you mean!
November 16, 2010 @ 10:59 pm
Haha, sadly I’m rather familiar with the taste of lip gloss too 😀
November 12, 2010 @ 11:15 am
I prefer ones with thinner biscuit sticks and LOTS more cream, hehe.
November 16, 2010 @ 11:01 pm
Like Pocky type ones? I’ve got Pocky posts coming up (when I get my act together!)
November 13, 2010 @ 10:27 am
haha! I can’t stay away from my Yan Yan’s. Remember them?!
November 16, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
OMG Yan Yans! Yes!! Speaking of Meiji, what about Hello Panda biscuits? Even now, I still love them! 😀
November 14, 2010 @ 12:12 am
No fair. You can’t just go making wild claims of romance and sweet memories without backing it up, pejoy makers! Shame on you!
November 16, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
I should ask for my money back!
November 14, 2010 @ 11:08 pm
hmm.. don’t believe I had this before!
November 16, 2010 @ 11:03 pm
Don’t worry, you’re not missing out on anything! 🙂
November 18, 2010 @ 9:28 am
I was wondering what happened to all the pocky.
How funny is the bit that says “Love the taste, stay in the sweet memory for good”….. sounds like your taking the blue pill from the matrix!!