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They say that when you fall off the horse,
the only thing to do is get back on. . . well, I never actually fell off a horse*. But the theory's the same whatever you do, so today I went to Top Quality Foods, formerly (and to a lot of people, still) known as Maxim's Oriental Market. Screw worrying about posertude, I haven't had scary Japanese candy in months. Today's purchases:
One box of chocolate almond smash Pocky. Verdict: Not too bad, but since I'm not enthralled with nuts to begin with and the cookie-like portion of Pocky has never made me happy, the only thing that'll make me likely to buy Pocky again is if I can find the legendary Pocky For Men.
One bag of Coconut Candy. Perhaps this should more accurately be labeled Candied Coconut. It's slices of coconut meat, dusted with what's either confectioner's sugar or coconut powder or both, and it tastes somewhat sweeter than my memories of normal coconut. Not bad, even if it is the only food product I currently own without an ingredient list.
One bag of my old favourite, W Taste Coffee Candy. It's squishy. It's Japanese. It's got coffee powder on the outside. It's good.
And, for 99 cents, two cans of banana-flavoured grass jelly drink. Nothin' keeps people from drinking your stuff in the office refrigerator like buyin' something that scares the frick out of 'em. Besides, Na informs me that it's supposed to be good for the skin, or something.
It also turns out Top Quality is now selling bubble tea. Or will be, anyway - they've set up a counter for it and they have signs up, but the signs aren't in English, so if they say 'we'll be opening this for business in September', I don't know it. I'll check it out next time.
*(Unless you wanna count the time last year that Daisy suddenly decided she wanted to lie down and roll in the dust while I was still on her back, and I didn't so much fall as jump off as soon as my feet were within safe reach of the ground. I got back on another horse, thank you.)
One box of chocolate almond smash Pocky. Verdict: Not too bad, but since I'm not enthralled with nuts to begin with and the cookie-like portion of Pocky has never made me happy, the only thing that'll make me likely to buy Pocky again is if I can find the legendary Pocky For Men.
One bag of Coconut Candy. Perhaps this should more accurately be labeled Candied Coconut. It's slices of coconut meat, dusted with what's either confectioner's sugar or coconut powder or both, and it tastes somewhat sweeter than my memories of normal coconut. Not bad, even if it is the only food product I currently own without an ingredient list.
One bag of my old favourite, W Taste Coffee Candy. It's squishy. It's Japanese. It's got coffee powder on the outside. It's good.
And, for 99 cents, two cans of banana-flavoured grass jelly drink. Nothin' keeps people from drinking your stuff in the office refrigerator like buyin' something that scares the frick out of 'em. Besides, Na informs me that it's supposed to be good for the skin, or something.
It also turns out Top Quality is now selling bubble tea. Or will be, anyway - they've set up a counter for it and they have signs up, but the signs aren't in English, so if they say 'we'll be opening this for business in September', I don't know it. I'll check it out next time.
*(Unless you wanna count the time last year that Daisy suddenly decided she wanted to lie down and roll in the dust while I was still on her back, and I didn't so much fall as jump off as soon as my feet were within safe reach of the ground. I got back on another horse, thank you.)