A few days ago a package arrived in the mail for me, all the way from Chiba, Japan. I had been waiting for this box for a few weeks now, and you can bet I was excited when I saw it. The company was nice enough to send me this box for review free of charge. My sister and I unboxed this and tried all of the snacks except the DIY's and the Poop candy - that's for another video entirely. Whew!
There are 3 types of subscription box packages you can choose from, and I will list them and their prices below for you.
Ninja Box________
Amount: 5-7 Items
Price: $14 USD
Samurai Box_______
Amount: 9-13 Items
Price: $ 22 USD
Sumo Box_________
Amount: 14-18 Items
Price: $33 USD
Now they do offer one time subscription boxes which means you can purchase a box once just for that upcoming month, but it's usually about $3 more to do that. But enough chit chat, let's get into what I know you've all been waiting for - The Snacks!
These are all of the lovely treats that were sent in the Samurai box, which is the package we were sent to try out. I would have loved the Sumo box because the treats in that one looked delicious!
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This is the first thing you will see when you open your Okashi Connection box. A cute pamphlet with cute little Anime characters showing off the delicious snacks you are soon to be munching.
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The first snack you will see is a rather big bag of Popcorn. This is Mike Popcorn Kyushu Shoyu, which in interpretation means Southern Japanese Island Soy Sauce. Kyushu being the island, and Shoyu meaning Soy Sauce. The popcorn itself had a very light texture, not too heavily salted as Soy Sauce snacks tend to be. It also had the aroma of caramel popcorn even though the taste was mildly soy sauce flavored. We did like this one, but because of the kernels that usually get stuck in our teeth with eating popcorn, it wasn't our favorite.
Next up is something I'd been wanting to try for a bit, Kongari Pizza-Sen! These are usually referred to as Senbei's, which are a type of rice cracker and they usually have some type of seasoning on them. These were so amazingly good. Light and crisp sort of like a chip cracker - a chracker! The Pizza flavor had just the right amount of seasonings, usually when you get a snack that is Pizza flavor you can always count on it to be very salty. These had the perfect amount of flavoring and came in a cute little tray for serving. By far the best rice crackers I've ever tasted.
Nericho Soft Mini DIY - We will be making a video for this soon, but it says it makes sugary strawberry foamy ice cream cones. Sounds delicious!
These are by Glico and are called Caplicocot. It's a A double sided-chocolate that melts in your hand and in your mouth! It was quite delicious solid milk chocolate on one half and a lighter aerated chocolate on the other side that tasted like a whipped chocolate cream. If it wasn't for the melting in your hand and the tough time taking it out of it's tray (probably due to the recent heat break) it would've been even more awesome.
This is another snack my sister, and I had been trying to get our hands on. We bought a pack from our local Asian market, Nam Dae Mun, but when we got them home we realized they were outdated as most of the snacks were that we'd purchased that day. A real bummer, eh? But these are so good! The peanuts aren't exceptional as they are just plain old salted dry roasted peanuts. But the seaweed rice cracker is another story! It's a crisp sweet smelling rice cracker dressed in a robe of roasted seaweed wrapped around it. The perfect healthy and light snack for anyone craving seaweed, crackers, or just a healthy snack.
Fue Ramune Whistle Candy - We've tasted these before. It was a slight Ramune flavored candy that was highly remeniscent of Sweet Tarts in America. It does crumbly melt in your mouth rather quick and has the same powdery texture as it's seemingly American equivalent. The whistling part of this treat is quite fun. It also came with a cute little sunflower hair bow.
Tanoshii Ramenya-San DIY - We will also be making a video for this DIY. I have always wanted to try this because we love Ramen and potstickers in my household, and I'm excited to see what this might taste like. It says we will be making candy that looks like ramen and pot stickers.
Super Mario Gummies - We are always excited to try Mario anything. I was even more excited to see that the flavors were Cola and cider! The texture of the gummies were quite firm making them kind of tough to chew like a bit of rubber, but the flavors were spot on. The cola was my favorite like I figured it would've been, as it tasted just like drinking a cup of Coca Cola or Dr Pepper which is one of my favorite sodas to drink. Despite the super firmness of the gummies, which I'm sure some people prefer, I really enjoyed these, and now I need a Dr. Pepper!
Unchoco "Poop" Candy - It's little balls of fruit candy that you eat out of the rear of this duck looking animal. We are saving this to make a gross and weird candy video stay please suggest what you'd like us to try in that video and stay tuned for the results!
Mini Baum Strawberry Roll - A delicious light and fluffy cake with Strawberry flavored cream, and a thick creamy strawberry coating. These are very much remeniscent of Little Debbie's Strawberry Jelly Rolls, only they have a much lighter cake, and a more mild strawberry flavor than that of the gel in Little Debbie's. One of my favorite treats in the box.
Collon Rum Vanilla - The vanilla cream in this cookie was very yummy, but that's about the only good part of it. The cookie itself was okay, but the cream really made it. What really threw it off, though, was the rum flavoring. It was definitely spot on, but it tasted as if they poured a couple of bottles of rum into one small batch of vanilla cream filling, making these taste drenched in Rum. But if you enjoy a good Rum or Coffee then this will be the perfect accompanying snack for you.
So that was all of the snacks that we got in our Samurai Box from Okashi Connection, and it was well worth the wait! We were highly impressed with the snacks that came in this box, and we would definitely recommend this box to anyone. The price is great for the treats you are getting in this box.
If you would like to get your own box then hurry on over to www.okashiconnection.com and subscribe to your preferred subscription package today! You won't be disappointed.
