Blue Lagoon - June 2022
Summer is around the corner. It’s time to bring your picnic kit to the beach and enjoy the ocean breeze on your cheeks! To make it all even more appetizing, here are some delicious treats with Japan’s best pre-summer flavors!
KitKat mini White Salt from Nestle
Allergens: wheat, dairy, soy Produced in a facility that also processes egg, almond and sesame Brand-new KitKat flavor in your Snack Box: White chocolate with a little hint of salt. This is a very popular combination during the summer months in Japan. By using a small amount of sea salt from Setouchi (瀬戸内, the Japanese inland sea) to accentuate the flavors, this KitKat is really unique and tasty! The main flavor is white chocolate, and you’ll find this flavor mostly available during this season.
Cream Anpan from Bourbon
Allergens: dairy, egg, wheat, soy *Small amounts of alcohol have been used in the bread's production process to make it softer and easier to preserve. This easy to snack bread with custard-flavored cream is made from the tastiest bread dough Bourbon produces. Part of the “chocolate bread” series, this new small cream bread has recently become available! It’s actually an Anpan (あんパン, 餡あんパン), a Japanese bread most commonly filled with red bean paste, but this time with delicious custard cream! It’s easy to store and bring with you anywhere you go. Make sure you try one before your friends and family eat them all.
Otona no Otsumami Shio Lemon from Iwatsuka Seika
Allergens: shrimp, wheat, peanut, soy, chicken Produced in a facility that also processes crab, egg and dairy Moving to the more savory selection, we’ve gotten you a bite-sized treat from Iwatsuka Seika. This producer is famous for their crackers, and this otsumami (おつまみ, fingerfood) is no exception! It is fried with the refreshing taste of lemon and sprinkled with salt: the taste of Summer right before beach season starts. Are you ready for it?
Giant Caplico Gungun Milk from Glico
Allergens: dairy, wheat, soy Produced in a facility that also processes egg and peanut Ice cream, but not really! This delicious chocolate snack with a fluffy texture comes with a milk flavor. The ice cream cone contains “air-in chocolate” which makes you want to flinch with its amazing fluffiness. It also contains decent amounts of calcium and magnesium thanks to the use of mild! If you’re lucky, the mascot is sometimes drawn on the side of the product. The packaging has also been renewed to a formulation with improved heat resistance and shape retention!
Putti Jakotto Yuzu from Bourbon
Allergens: wheat, squid, salmon, soy Produced in a facility that also processes dairy, shrimp and crab Yuzu scented crêpe, lightly grilled, and super savory. You won’t be disappointed. This is a baked senbei (煎餅, Japanese rice cracker) that will have you enjoy the natural ingredients used in the process. It has the distinctively fluffy scent of yuzu and Japanese pepper spread on the rice cracker dough, itself kneaded with chirimen (ちりめん, small dried fish like sardines).
Dokidoki Fishing from Coris
It’s time to fish yourself some snacks! You can enjoy fishing with a simple handmade confectionery string that makes fish using water. When water is sprinkled on anhydrous glucose, which is the main raw material of powder, it embraces water and turns from powder to solid. A play confectionery that catches solid fish solidified with water. The capacity of the fish part is about 3g. You can make 4 fish.
Tokuno Milk Cookie from Furuta Seika
Allergens: wheat, dairy, soy Produced in a facility that also processes egg Tasty milk cookies (ミルククッキー) made from Hokkaido cream and carefully selected ingredients. Hokkaido is famous for its dairy products, and makes some of the best in the world thanks to their high-standards in quality control. Those cookies are kiln-baked. A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber (kind of like an oven), that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening or drying. In this case, it gives the cookies a unique texture you won’t find elsewhere!
Candy Soda Box from Kyoshin
Produced in a facility that also processes soy A refreshing candy soda selection is now available in this candy box! The soda-flavored mochi gummy, which has a mochi-like texture, is divided into four colors and flavors (soda, cola, melon soda, and whide soda), and each of them is a new surprise for your senses.
Kajiriccho Cider and Cider from Coris
Allergens: gelatin Double the cider sensation that is perfect for this warm weather! A refreshing cider-flavored candy wrapping the refreshing cider flavor in a double-layer (サイダー＆サイダ) for even more pleasure. We didn't know that gummy can be this refreshing but now we do!
Natsukashi Ramune from Maruta
Maruta Foods Co., Ltd., which was founded after the war, is one of the few manufacturers in Japan that makes konpei sugar. They are also famous for their ramune, and this natsukashi (なつかし, nostalgic) flavor is reminiscent of the Showa period, or the 80s. The classic cider taste is known by every person on this island, and once you’ll try, you’ll know why!
Awa Soda Ramune from Coris
Eating this ramune (ラムネ) feels like drinking a refreshing soda. You’ll get that same stimulating rush from the bubbles inside the bottle. This is the classic soda-flavored ramune confectionery, an iconic drink turned into a snack. With its lively color scheme and funny characters, Coris is conveying a feeling of lightness and fluffiness, exactly as you’d get after enjoying this ramune.
Cheezack from Yaokin
Crunchy and Cheesy, that's the kind of combination we are looking for! It’s not Cheetos, it’s Cheezack: a crispy creamy cheese snack that cheese lovers shouldn't miss out on! It comes with a crunchy texture and a creamy cheese flavor on the surface and center of the snack dough.
Sonomanma Soda Gum from Coris
Sonomanma (そのまんま) is a gum series with a variety of flavors that is extremely popular with children in Japan. We’ve gotten you the soft soda (ソーダ) flavor, which contains a sweet and very sour paste. (Do not swallow.)
