Tokyo Treat February 2016 Subscription Box Review

TokyoTreat is a Japanese treat box that is shipped directly from Japan. TokyoTreat has three levels of box, which seems to be the norm with snack boxes. Shipping is included with the boxes, which are sent SAL so they can take anywhere from three weeks to a month to arrive. February’s box, which was sent to me for review, arrived beginning of March.

TokyoTreat has had a pretty big overhaul since I last subscribed; the outer box is a cheerful orange, and the product information card is now a mini magazine containing not only translated descriptions of the included items, but also instructions for the DIY candy kits, a welcome/introduction letter, and some content about Japan. You can see the three levels of the box ranging from the smallest to the premium box.

The premium box is loaded with colourful treats!

There were two generously sized bags of snacks in the box!

Nagewa Mentai Mayo Flavour: Mentaiko is marinated pollock roe. So, fish eggs. And it’s often served with mayo. Japanese mayo is different from ours, but even so I don’t think I’m brave enough to try these. This flavour is limited edition, and they look like they’re potato rings much like the habanero-flavoured ones that were in January’s box. (I believe they’re by the same company, Tohato.)

Dontaco’s Chili Taco Flavoured Chips: These really do taste like tacos! Well, taco seasoning. I was expecting more of a cheese flavour like our spicy Doritos, but this was a very taco flavour.

Grain Gummy: These look like jelly beans, but they’re a different texture. The inside is actually really soft and chewy like a gummy worm, and the outer shell is harder.

Collis Strange Gum: The three flavours (Lemon, Strawberry, and Blueberry) actually change into a grape flavour as you chew it!

String Candy: These are long ropes of grape and muscat flavoured candy that you can tie, braid, tangle, and play with before you eat it.

Kracie’s Mr Fun Bakery: The second DIY kit is from Kracie’s popular Popin’ Cookin’ series. This one involves mixing candy powder with water to make strawberry and vanilla filling. You can then use the filling in a tiny icing piping bag to fill and decorate wafer pieces to make ice cream cones, cookies, and cakes. They even give you sprinkles to add on top!

Fujiya Peko Poco Chocolate: I’ve seen these characters before, they’re so cute!  These are made of milk chocolate. I’m giving them to my boss for her son who is going through a lollipop phase.

LOOK Chocolate: LOOK Chocolate is some of the best chocolate I have ever had (along with DARS. Japan, in general, makes amazing chocolate). I get so excited when it shows up in a snack box! These have both a strawberry cream filling but also a strawberry jam as well!

Everything in this box is so cute and pink, I love it!

Princess’s Lost Treasure: This is a soft cookie filled with strawberry jam. It reminds me so much of an old kind of cookie we used to have here, I just can’t remember the name, But the nostalgia here is strong.

Lotte Koume Soft Candy: These soft chews are umeboshi (pickled plum) flavour. Umeboshi is one of the sourest foods so I was a bit nervous to try these, but they actually don’t really taste like anything.

Kiki and Lola Strawberry Crunch: Little Twin Stars! More nostalgia. This is a rice krispie treat, but the grains of rice are very small and hard so it’s more crunchy than gooey like the ones we make here. It’s strawberry flavoured.

Heart Pocky: More heart shaped pocky! I like the flecks of strawberry in the coating on these.

Good Luck Chopsticks: As a bonus gift this month everyone received a set of bamboo chopsticks with a love fortune. I got ‘Average Good Luck. Apparently my special someone might take her time showing up.

Sweet Red Bean Soup: …soup in a can. Why not? It’s recommended you pour this into a mug and heat it, but I’m going to leave that to my friend to try.

Cream Collon: Collon, despite the weird name, is one of my favourite snacks! Made by Glico, the brains behind Pocky, it’s a cookie tube filled with cream. And they’re addicting.

February’s TokyoTreat box was really fun to open! I loved the Valentines theme and the pink colours, and the chopsticks were a fun little extra gift. These boxes always come so stuffed with goodies packed carefully that you never know what you’ll pull out next. Definitely worth a look into if you haven’t tried them yet!

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