A taste of Halloween in Japan
Halloween is getting close and like every year, Japanese grocery stores are filling up with orange-tinted candies and drinks, and all kind of spooky foods. Let’s get a closer look at them!
Halloween may not be a traditional Japanese celebration, yet, more and more the Japanese yield to it, which may be related to their attraction to horror and supernatural. Supermarkets, restaurants, coffee shops, fast foods and even the traditional lunch bentô get Halloween colors and seasonal tastes.
You may know about the pumpkin pudding Kit Kat, a classic, but there are also Krispy Kreme’s doughnuts, muffins and ice creams. Pumpkin is the major flavor of the season, obviously, but also chocolate - dark more likely -, caramel, sweet potato or maple.
After the candies, let’s switch to drinks and Pepsi Ghost. And here’s Halloween’s mystery: the flavor remains undiscovered. If you have an opportunity to test it, please tell us what’s your guess!
Let’s get back to pumpkin and Lipton Sweet Pumpkin Tea Latte, tea tasting like a pumpkin desert.
And now cup noodles. For Halloween, Nissin has launched 4 new products: noodles, udon, yakisoba and even instant risotto, all with a taste of the season. The noodles and risotto have a pumpkin and cheese flavor, while udon will be served in a dark pork and curry broth, and yakisoba are ink black, squid ink black even.
As for bentô, they’re full of spooky creatures, yokai, ghosts, monsters, skeletons, and repellent insects.
If you want to prepare your own Halloween diner, let’s try Halloween temarizushi and muffins by following Chopstick Chronicles’s recipes.
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