Kitto Katsu

Ever since visiting Japan I've had this obsessive addiction to Kit Kat bars. Not just eating kit kat bars but collecting and trying every new kit kat bar flavor that I can get my melted chocolate covered hands on. In Japan the bar's name is similar to the phrase, "Kitto katsu" which means, "You will surely win!". The Japanese, being very superstitious, would buy these chocolate bars for their children as good luck charms before exams. I know Japanese people seem so quiet and reserved but inside they are just wild wild people. How else can you explain the wacky flavors that Japanese kit kat bars come in, such as brandy orange, red wine, cherry blossom, soy sauce, banana, grape, iced tea, apple, peach, kiwi, red bean, hojicha, grilled corn, candied sweet potato, edamame, and the list goes on. I hoarded boxes of my two favorite flavors, white chocolate and strawberry, in my return luggage on the way back.

I scored these two packs of kit kats at Hong Kong Supermarket. Neither of them were great. The Caramel Macchiato McFlurry kit kat was too sweet and fake tasting. The Muscat of Alexandria started off tasting okay but ended on a bad note. Grape in a kit kat is just weird. Hmm unless its peanut butter and grape jelly flavor. I should send them my idea. Even though these two were a miss it's still fun to try them. At $2:49 each they are a little more expensive then our conventional kit kat.