Meiji Chocolate

  Memories of holidays brings fond recollection of childhood memories. My mom, and  aunt made us believe that Santa brings presents/gifts to good kids. I remember waking up seeing socks with sweets and goodies filled with a small snack container when you open it, lo and behold! long stick biscuits, with choco-dip on the side. The name of that snack isYan Yan, and as I get older, they have come up with another flavor which is strawberry. I love both flavors and receiving goodies such as this, is already a treat for me, and my brother. Even if I'm already an adult, I still love Meiji snacks. I love their Hello Panda biscuits filled with chocolate, or strawberry cream. I found out that these snacks originated in Japan. After having my hair cut done in a popular salon (I'm sporting a short hair now), I bought these cute candies at a bookstore. We all know that when it comes to cuteness, Japanese things is the no.1.  It is a cute set of boxed candies. Searching on the internet, they are called Meiji mini assorted candy. The set includes, strawberry chocolate marbles (my favorite), coffee beat, choco baby, chocolate marbles (their version of M & M's in chocolate and strawberry).  I bought this pack for less than a hundred pesos. Philippines is near Japan, so the products that are imported here doesn't cost  a lot. I checked on the amazon website, and these candies were way expensive. Other sweet snacks that I have tried are their almond covered chocolates which are good. I have tried their chocolate bar also. Tastes like your usual Japanese chocolates. (I love Japanese chocolates since they are not too sweet compared to the US made chocolates. Wayback, my cousins who are living in Japan would send us cute Japanese chocolates wrapped individually and the chocolates have letters written on them.). From my research Meiji belongs to a large group of companies, related in manufacturing and selling foods and pharmaceuticals.

This is their website. Meiji website (click me)

I've  also included in this blog post of mine. Arashi's Matsujun's commercial. This commercial reminds me of Willy Wonka. (I like Willy Wonka, and I cosplayed his character wayback in our office Halloween celebration), This is a compilation of his Meiji commercials, and a bonus behind the scenes. By the way, Matsujun also stars in a drama series, called Shitsuren Chocolatier (Heartbroken Chocolatier).