Howdy! After a small creative break, I’m back with a new article from Japan. This time, I’ve prepared another food testing for you (I noticed, I don’t have that much of those here) and hereby present you ずんだ(Zunda)-KitKat! ずんだ is a sweet paste, created from green beans and is supposedly quite popular in ずんだ もち (Zunda-Mochi) undずんだ だんご (Zunda-Dango) in the summertime. To be honest, I had to look this up, because the KitKats were presented to me as containing Wasabi, but when I examined the box at home, there was no mention on that (shame on you Johannes! [no, not me]). But of course, green can be a pretty misleading colour in the Japanese cuisine.

After opening the box, I noticed that the chocolate coating is indeed light green and it wasn’t all just a marketing trick to target the foreigners sense of culinary adventures (and mine is particularly easy to tingle, I have to admit). As disturbing as this may look on first glance, it actually tastes really nice. The flavour of the ずんだ is incorporated into the white chocolate and although it could be a bit stronger for my liking, it definitely added a nice touch to the KitKat-bars. A slight nuance of nuts and beans, if I had to put it into words, with a special kind of sweetness, distinctively different from what I know from Europe. I like!

Oh, and 10 Yen per box will be donated to the quake- and tsunami-stricken Tohoku-region. Therefor please take my recommendation more seriously and buy ずんだ-KitKats ^^