Okashi (Japanese Snacks)

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I am a huge fan of the whole Japanese snack experience. The packaging's fun and colorful, the snacks come in cool shapes and sizes, and they're just plain tasty.  Lots of them have flavor combinations we Westerners wouldn't normally think of, but which are quite clever and delicious when you try them.

American snacks can seem pretty boring in comparison. Take the lowly KitKat for example -- we can't get green tea or lemon cheesecake flavors in regular grocery stores in the US. And we should be able to, shouldn't we?

Japanese Candy Pictures from the Folks at Flickr 

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Current Featured Snack - Meiji Chelsea Vanilla Mix 

Milk, Caramel and Coffee Candies

These are tasty candies in Vanilla Milk, Vanilla Caramel and Vanilla Coffee flavors. If you love flavored coffees, you'll like these, too. They may be a little hard to track down, but they're worth finding just for the Milk flavor alone!

Japanese Snack News from Google 

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Okashi Company Links 

Japanese fonts and basic knowledge of Japanese helpful for these sites!
Glico
Makers of Pocky, Caplico and lots of other delicious treats
Kameda Seika
These are *the* rice cracker people
Kasugai
Mostly gummy candy, bean and nut snacks. Their wasabi peas and squid peanuts (yup, squid peanuts) are some of my favorites!
Meiji
Meiji makes too many tasty things to list them all. Try Karl corn puffs, KinoKonoYama chocolate mushrooms, Apollo chocolates and fancy Cho-Pans for starters.

Pretz Pictures from the Folks at Flickr 

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Glico Pretz (Zunda) by matsuyuki

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Okashi Info Links 

Japanese Snacks.com
Site has an online database of 100+ snacks and links to online places to buy snacks, plus the latest snacking news and even ECards for you to send.

Great Okashi on Amazon 

Glico - Caramel Pocky 1.41 Oz.

Amazon Price: (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Meiji Chocolate Candy - CaCao Style, Berry Mix

Amazon Price: (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Glico - Giant Chocolate Pocky 10.83 Oz

Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Glico - Men's Chocolate Pocky 2.53 Oz.

Amazon Price: $2.99 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Anka Wine Yeast Biscuit Cracker - 100% Natural - 2x 4.3 Oz

Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Glico - Pocky Kurogoma (Black Sesame)

Kurogoma is a mixture of black sesame, black rice, black soy beans, black pine nut and black quince in what tastes like white chocolate. Sounds weird? It's actually a very tasty combination. If you like those little sesame sticks in snack mixes, you'll think these are yummy!

Amazon Price: (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Kabaya Strawberry Chocolate - 2.36 OZ

Amazon Price: (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Glico - Purple Sweet Mousse Pocky - 2.11 Oz

Amazon Price: (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Kasugai Apple Gummy Candies

Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Kasugai Fruit Gummy - Grape - 4.76 oz.

Amazon Price: (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Kasugai Gummy Candies with Muscat (Green Grape) Juice

Amazon Price: $5.75 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Kasugai Orange Gummy Candies - 4.41 Oz

Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Kasugai - Roasted Mix Nuts 3.88 Oz.

Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Make Your Own Snacks 

Japanese Snacks & Light Meals: Quick & Easy (Quick and Easy Series)

Amazon Price: $18.95 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Other Places to Buy Okashi 

Asian Food Grocer
San Francisco-based online shop with Koala no March cookies, Every Burger chocolate ''hamburgers'', Meiji Apollos, Calpico sodas, etc.
Asian Munchies
Brooklyn-based, Asian Munchies has lots of stuff: Pocky, Pretz, Ramune soda, Calpis, Kirin coffee drinks, etc., as well as gift baskets.
J-Snacks at J-List
J-List has tons of cool, wacky Japanese stuff and lots of snacks and drinks. Pick up some Pocari Sweat, Calorie Mate, Ramune bottle candy, Kompeito, Final Fantasy Potion, Pancake-flavor Pretz and, of course, Pocky.

Japanese Snack Stuff on eBay 

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