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[Apsara]

If you take a trip to Tokyo, Quibby84, you can get Hershey's chocolate even in some ordinary supermarkets here. The import shops near where I live have a huge selection too. Since you miss American food so much you would probably go nuts if you went somewhere like Seijo Ishi or Kaldi!

New Zealand-made Cadbury chocolate bars are high on my list- luckily you can get those at the import shops too They also carry the Ritter Sport bars- I'm intrigued now and will be buying one tomorrow.

[womblingfree]

[MrCAPiTUL]

Thanks for all the replies. I definitely appreciate it.

Wombling, do you know what the brands are of the little boxes of confectionary?

[womblingfree]

[Lynn]

I LOVE Jpes choco!!! In fact, I live in the states, and we go out of our way to the Japanese store to buy Jpes choco.

I agree that Melty kiss, or Melty Blend as they call it here, is awesome. I also love the dark chocolates and strawberry chocolates.

As for Hersheys...it's really, really bad.

[rebecca432]

I've grown up on Hersheys and I must admit that I miss smores, a nice hershey bar with roasted marshmellows and graham crackers. I love explaining that to some of my students. All in all hershey isn't bad especially the kisses.

I've become a fan of the Meiji bars in Japan but at 400 calories a pop it's a little too much but it's worth the taste.

Cadbury got my vote in London and I was addicted to the bars while I was there. I couldn't get the Cadbury bars back home though but I still miss them.

I was pretty mad when I got here with the candy selection but now I'm getting used to it. If only they stocked Reeses Peanut Butter cups in the stores...

[TokyoLiz]

...you can order your UK candies online - http://www.britishdelights.com/nestles.htm

A friend brought a mint Aero bar over last year, and I thought it was foul. But I crave a Yorkie bar now and again.

Melty Kiss is my favorite Japanese chocolate.

[Apsara]

I liked the Fujiya "LOOK" chocolates- they did different seasonal flavours, but I haven't seen them since the old milk scandal. Hopefully they will come back.

As for Cadbury, I hear they have a high vegetable fat content, but I don't mind as long as it tastes good I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to chocolate, I don't mind Hershey's either. Kisses are great.

I haven't really met a chocolate I didn't like apart from Indian Cadbury's, which has usually been melted and solidified again several times on its way to the shop so is gross, and the 99 percent cacao chocolate- I might as well buy a pack of cocoa and just spoon it from the bag as eat that.

[japanman]

Do you mean the cadbury's that they sell in India? Very expensive too, the price of one bar is the same as a meal. Rather like charging 1000 yen for a bar of chocolate here. I think it's made like that to stop it melting easily, that's the conclusion I came to.

[Apsara]

Yep, I mean the cadbury's sold in India. Yep, ridiculouly expensive so I hardly ever buy it, but after I've been there a month or so I'm usually craving some. What I find is that the chocolate has light crystallised patches on it, which usually means that it has actually melted and solidified again- lots of powercuts means that even if they keep it in fridges it will usually have melted at some point before being sold.

[Sherri]

Do Cadbury Cream Eggs count? I love them! The best chocolate I have ever had was in Belgium from a little shop where they made truffles with fresh cream inside. Hard to know when to stop.

I like dark chocolate and here in Hawaii we can get some really nice organic dark chocolate, not name brands.

I was not fond of Japanese make chocolates and not at all a fan of Hersheys (tastes like brown crayons) Though nama chocolate--do they still sell that? --it's really good!

Best
Sherri

[Apsara]

Oh, Cadbury Creme eggs- my all time favourite. I was sent 16 of them by my family last month and even though I gave some away I still ate way too many of them, too fast. Okay, I think I've posted enough on the chocolate thread now, but it is one of my favourite subjects!

[Quibby84]

Oh my gosh..how many pounds of sugar do you think one Cadbury Creme egg has? They taste really good but I can only eat a little before my head is spinning from the sugar....ahhhh...makes me sad that I didnt spend easter at home....no easter basket and no easter candy...it is a sad sad thing to grow up and move away...
anyways! back to chocolate talk!

[sethness]

godiva chocolates-- bought in Japan, came from Europe. They're typically too-bubbly, very soft, and made in white/brown swirls resembling sea life.

If we're limiting the conversation to Asian chocolates, then I vote for the white chocolate that costs 99 yen (Dapp? Da..somethingsomethingsomething) and comes in a white/yellow box about half the height of a deck of playing cards.

Someone else mentioned Hershey's. Bah! 1) American chocolate is filled with chalky fillers, Hershey's especially. Worse, 2) Hershey's participates in that horrific Japanese pastime, "half-filling the damned bag, and selling it as though it were full". Especially their chocolate icecream bars-- the photo on th ebox is a damned lie; the box is half-filled. Hershey can go bankrupt, as far as I'm concerned.

[bailemos]

Cadbury Creme eggs, `Double Chocolate` flavour !!! mmm mmm mmm... Completely sinful in terms of sugar and fat content but what a way to go ...

Also, the `Tim Tam slam` is a memorable chocolate fix, - although probably best not to be done in public in Japan and something I havent done for a while over here ...