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With less than 1% of Japan being Christian, the Japanese people generally, do not tend celebrate Easter, they do however love chocolate – so we thought we’d take this opportunity to take a look at a few of the countries most popular chocy treats!
Although not a Japanese brand, the country is famed for its multitude of “interesting” KitKat flavourings. “Red Bean Sandwich, Green Tea, Purple Sweet Potato and Cherry Blossom flavours are all available….
You can now even cook KitKat and there has even bee a KitKat Pizza developed…
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Another favourite is Crunky, (surely they could have called it Crunchy!), which, amongst many others comes in Green Tea, Chestnut and Roasted Potato flavours!
Royce Chocolate World can be found in Sapporo, where visitors are free to visit the factory and watch the famed chocolate crisp take form.
There is even a hotel in Tokyo (The Lotte City Hotel) that has a whole room dedicated to Koala’s Marches – a bite-size cookie with a chocolate filling.
If staying in a chocolate hotel is not enough for you, how about taking a bath in it?
As well as green tea baths and red wine hot springs, Hakone’s Yunessun ‘onsen theme park’ has a bath full of hot chocolate! You literally wallow in chocolate.
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Japanese chocolate is a lot more imaginative when it comes to shapes – one of the most popular snacks are Mushroom Mountains, followed by Every Burger, Pucca (fish shaped chocolate snacks) and even chocolate monkey poo drops..
So Japan is not just about sushi and umami falvours.. if Easter was celebrated I wonder what they’d come up with?!