« I Was Forced to Watch a Morbid Video to Get My Driver's License Renewed | Main | My Friends Like Cat Paws »
Garlic chocolate is the newest thing this Valentine's Day. A company in Aomori is selling a little chocolate that's made of local fermented black garlic and cocoa powder. Word is that it tastes kinda like prunes. A box of 3 is 600 yen.
Little towns in Japan often make mashup versions of their local specialty food to promote their region. Takko—the town in Aomori that makes garlic chocolate—is one of the top garlic regions in the country, so this is probably a similar experiment.
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c5d3253ef00e5502b48d38833
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Garlic Chocolate For Stinky V-Day Lovers:
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
In 2008, Chronicle published my book: Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan.
I am also the founder of The Tofu Project, a boutique program that helps Japanese entrepreneurs and creators think deeper, tell better stories, and go out into the world in a much bigger way. We work with companies like Mixi, Japan Airlines, and Salesforce.com.
Sometimes I try to explain Japanese culture on CNN, BBC, CBC, WSJ, ABC (so many acronyms!) or in person at places like the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, ETech, and Ignite!
Follow me on Twitter
Become a Facebook Fan
Read some of my published magazine stories
Send tips to mango [at] tokyomango [dot] com
I expect we'll see this at the local ¥99 store soon.
Posted by: vagrant | February 11, 2008 at 06:06 AM
I'd give it a shot. I just got back from another trip to Japan and picked up chocolates at Loft filled with umeshu (plum wine) cream. Something like 1.8% alcohol or something. It's really tasty! Though I admit, I like the one filled with shochu better.
Felt odd buying it though since it was out for Valentines and only girls buy chocolates for guys there...I wanted to tell the girl at the checkout that I wasn't some loser buying it for himself because no girl will buy it for me...even though in this case it was probably true... (T^T)
Posted by: Nobita | February 11, 2008 at 09:55 AM
Chocolate=Good
Garlic=Good
Chocolate and Garlic= Not Good
Posted by: Javatrader | February 11, 2008 at 12:56 PM