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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Meiji Gummy Choco
There were a few consolation prizes though, including my new favorite Wheat Chocolate and I picked up a tube of Meiji Gummy Choco. I’ve had these before, one of my co-workers loves to bring in new finds from her local Asian market and shared some with me. But I gobbled them up before I could take any pictures. So here they are, in all their glory.
Meiji packages these in several different ways, but I prefer the tall tube (a little shorter than a standard paper towel roll).
Luckily this was an export package and was in English. The mix of flavors here are Strawberry, Muscat and Orange. The flavored white chocolate coating is real white chocolate. The ingredients for the confection start out like this: sugar, corn syrup, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, palm oil, concentrated fruit juice, skim milk powder, cacao mass, gelatin ... and so on. Now, you may find this a little odd, but before I was exposed to the Gummy Choco, I’d never had chocolate-covered gummis before. (I’ll have some Muddy Bears up in the next week or so as a comparison). Somehow I always thought that the texture combo wouldn’t work, that the chocolate would be grainy and flaky compared to the gummi or that the chocolate would be subpar. Meiji has balanced theirs with a very soft gummi that’s pretty intensely flavored along with a generous and flavored white chocolate coating.
If the idea of white chocolate is just too difficult for you, Meiji makes a milk chocolate and strawberry version that’s also spectacular (and often sold in boxes instead of the tubes). I haven’t seen them in the States, but here are some more versions on Flickr. Basically, I love these. I love the look of the package, I love the easy-to-dispense tube. The taste is great, often with flavor mixes there’s one that I don’t like, but I loved all of them. The price for an import candy wasn’t too bad ($1.49 at Nijiya Market in Little Tokyo Plaza) and it was absolutely fresh. There’s even 8% of my daily RDA of calcium in every serving. If they sold these at movie theaters, I might actually start going to the movies again. They’re pretty popular and can be found in both Chinese, Korean and Japanese markets as well as various webstores. I’m not sure if they’re carried in comic book stores, but keep an eye out anyplace that you can find manga and other Asian imports. (Meiji also makes other tubular goodness with their Coffee Beat.) Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 11:11 am 
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How funny, I always see the milk chocolate strawberry version in the Asian markets out here, but never this white chocolate/mulit fruit one. YUM!
I have seen the chocolate-coated ones at Mitsuwa, Nijiya, and Marukai at various times. There is also a different brand that comes in little baggies. They are generally displayed at the end of an aisle on a hanging thing and are maybe a foot and a half long, with 4-5 flavors each in a separate bag (for some reason the strawberry always has pink-colored white chocolate coating, but the others are regular chocolate). Again, I’ve seen these at all the Japanese shops in the LA area at various times.
I love, love, love the milk choco gummis! I’ve had the peach, muscat and fuji apple (don’t like strawberry stuff) and they are all fantastic! I love the tubes, as well. Nicely designed and easy to dispense from. I only wish I could find an alternative use for the tubes as they are stacking up…
I’ve seen these all over the Bay Area.
I saw these about a month ago at one of our Japanese markets, Komatsu. I did bring them home for my boyfriend to try.. he was quite interested at the texture, but quite enjoyed them from what I picked up. I didn’t have any, so I can’t really comment too much on them. They do contain gelatin and being a vegetarian, that sort of limits some sweets for me(but thankfully all my favorites are still fine!). I must mention though the wonderful smell when I opened up the neat little tube though.. so fresh and fruity :D
Also wanted to mention, that being in BC, Canada.. most of our really interesting Japanese snacks, are available online only.. although you can always find Hi-Chew’s and Soy rice crisps
I had just bought a tube of this on impulse when I was in soho last week and devoured it upon minutes of opening. yum!
Oh I LOVE the green apple flavor. Yum. I almost always get a tube when I go to T&T;Market.
I’ve never tried this before, but I might go out and get some tonight! (There is a Japanese food market two blocks from my house; they have a huge candy aisle. It’s the best.)
These look SO good. White chocolate and gummies sound like the perfect combination. Would you happen to know if these are avaliable online [since I don’t live anywhere near a Japanese food market]?
I am going to have to try these - I have seen them at the Korean/Japanese market I like to go to. I love Coffee Beat and - I really like your blog, too! Have been reading for some time. I especially enjoy your Japanese candy reviews.
So I went out and got these, or what I thought were these, made by the same company, which turned out to basically be Japanese m&m;’s. Too bad.
I was surprised at how high you rated these. Then I remembered that the reason I felt so disgusted when I had them was because I finished the whole tube in ~30 minutes.
Heh.
I liked those… especially sucking on them
Asian Food Grocer ( http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com ) carries the choco gummi’s online, although there’s a price mark-up.
these are really good in trail mix!! The little boxes are great to throw in your purse and you can reuse the tubes by painting them, refilling with other candy and giving them away (valentines day gifts for friends maybe?)
the best thing about these are that they’re easy to share, since you can pour some into the lid, and then pass the tube on, although they’ll disappear very quickly.
These are one of my favorites too! I can eat a whole tube in a sitting. =X
You might be able to find yuzu at Nijiya for a much cheaper price. Up here in the Bay Area, I’ve seen 3 small yuzu for less than $5.
I love these!!! They’re available at HMart in Vancouver and Aberdeen Centre in Richmond but the price is around $3.99 a tube… and if I eat too many I feel a little sick. But I still buy them.
I bought some of these at Mitsuwa market just because I saw them in this blog, and they are indeed, amazing.
Got a bunch of everything (Apple, Peach, Strawberry, Muscat, and Mix) in Chinatown. It’s my fav candy ^^
I like to buy the boxed version of these (in milk chocolate) whenever I’m in Taiwan visiting family. I usually see the grape version in 7-Elevens and other convenience stores which are prolific in Taiwan. Seriously stand on any street and look down it either direction. You will see at least one convenience store. I also see the strawberry version sometimes but those are usually in three packs. The price in Taiwan is 20NTD (New Taiwan Dollars- also known as the yuan) a box which is about $0.60. Gotta love food prices in Taiwan. Boba (bubble) tea- the milk tea with the chewy tapioca pearls in it is only 30NTD (just under a buck) in Taiwan whereas you be paying $2-3 bucks for a cup here in the states.
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