Thursday, February 17, 2011

Japan Candy Review - Meiji Meltykiss Green Tea Chocolate Cubes

Meiji Meltykiss Green Tea.
Available only during Winter at AsianSnacks
Melty Winter Kisses
Meltykiss is a seasonal premium chocolate cube available only in Winter.  They're made by Japan's premier chocolate company, Meiji.  Their English slogan is "Gently melts in your mouth like a snowflake" hence the name, Meltykiss.  Every winter when Meltykiss hits the stores in Asia they simply fly off the shelves.  Today we look at one of the most popular of Meltykiss flavors, Green Tea Matcha.


More than just a pretty box
Beautiful and Function
All in One
Meltykiss come with some beautiful packaging. The box shows a closeup of chocolate cubes and green tea leaves along with snowflake patterns to indicate this is a "Winter Season Only" product.  The box isn't just beautiful, it's surprisingly functional as well.  It features a perforated top flap that opens up to transform the box into a functional serving piece.  The flap can easily be opened and resealed with a touch of your finger.   Now that's some impressive candy engineering!  

Inside the box the chocolate cubes are protected in pretty individual foil wrappers with the same snowflake patterns as the outside serving box.  Opening the foil wrap I am greeted with a rich aroma of dark chocolate and green tea matcha.  Nice. 


Dark coco powder covers
this premium chocolate cube
Taste  
These chocolate cubes are silky smooth like a good truffle.  A thin layer of rich milk chocolate surrounds the green tea center and is sprinkled with dark coco powder.  Each bite is rewarded with rich green tea flavor.  The milk chocolate melts immediately to smooth out the raw green tea flavor and combines with undertones of bitterness from the dark coco powder, so it isn't too sweet.  The green tea flavor tastes like drinking a cup of actual green tea in a Japanese tea house.  


The delicious matcha filling 
is made with 100% natural green tea
Rating - 4 of 5
Green tea is clearly the focus of this chocolate, so much so that I would describe it more as a green tea cube covered with chocolate instead of a chocolate cube.  Overall it's a premium chocolate perfect for Japanese green tea lovers.  If you don't like the raw taste of green tea, Meltykiss also comes in Strawberry and Creamy ChocolateThese chocolates are available for a limited time at AsianSnacks.    


   

10 comments:

  1. If you like Meiji, you might want to try Shiroi Koibito. It is Hokkaido's premium chocolate.
    http://www.guidea.com/Shiroikoibito/

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  2. I love the green tea Meltykiss! Great photos, I used one on my blog and have linked back to this page =). Thanks!

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  3. It doesn't have any meat products in it. So I assume it is Halal.

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  5. E472, E473, E475, E476 are all mushbooh so it is best to avoid these.it could very possibly contain pork derivatives.

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  6. E472, E473, E475, E476 are all mushbooh so it is best to avoid these.it could very possibly contain pork derivatives.

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  7. E472, E473, E475, E476 are all mushbooh so it is best to avoid these.it could very possibly contain pork derivatives.

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  8. E472,E473,E475,E476 are all mashbooh, ita beat to avoid them

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