today was food-heaven

so today I went to a shop called 'Cold Stone' and I have to say, it's magical. You may think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. Cold stone is an ice cream shop. Not just any ice cream shop, it's an amazing ice cream shop! you pick an ice cream flavor (or multiple flavors), pick toppings (as many as you want), pick a holder (waffle, chocolate waffle, cone etc.) and pick your size. you get to decide everything yourself and there are so many choices!! I went for chocolate ice cream (as always), with kitkat and white chocolate chips, and a chocolate waffle.. I swear it was made of pure heaven! And they sing a song for you while making ice cream, which is very cute :)

and on top of that I picked up some new Pocky flavors :D ....and Oreo flavors... STAHP JAPAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME? I got some winter flavor that is supposed to melt in your mouth, sounds promising! I'll be reviewing the Pocky Pie chocolate flavor this time c:

Pocky Pie Chocolate

there are 2 packs inside the box, and the box looks kind of fancy :) the pocky looks the same as the regular chocolate pocky, but tastes different. it has this crunchy thing to it, like it says, it has pieces of pie in it (or some sort) and it has more 'power' than a normal chocolate pocky. I'm really digging this flavor, mmmm!! I'll defenitely buy this again!

next time I'll upload a recipe of a delicious pumpkin-oreo cake my hostmother made, it was really good! :) so, look forward to that, and have a great day!

Reinhilde

who doesn't love food?

I love food, I really do. Not just eating food, but also making it and discovering new food. I'm currently on exchange in Japan, and I have eaten so many delicious dishes since coming here! Before my exchange started my flavours were limited, I'm kind of a picky eater, and sometimes a bit afraid to try new things.. but Since coming here I have eaten many things I would have dreams (and nightmares) about back home.

I'll update once a week or more, depending on my schedule. the content can be anything related to food, recipes, some random food I found or information about food.

so let's get started on the first week; in Japan there is a magical thing called 'Pocky'. It basically is a pretzel stick with chocolate on it, but the thing is, this pretzel stick is everything but basic! there are countless flavours of Pocky in Japan, and it is my personal challenge to try them all, or at least as many as possible. now, there is also the Kitkat challenge, which I'm defenitely doing someday too, but I want to focus on the Pocky first. 

So last week I went to a sweets shop with my friend and found 3 flavours of Pocky that were new to me, so of course I had to buy them, luckily they were really chep (about 98 yen per package) I bought:

-Pocky Tropical Mango & Pineapple

- Pocky Coconut Chocolate

- Pocky Pie (or something) with dark chocolate

And this weekend I went to Nagano to climb a mountain and there I found regional Giant Pocky! it's called Pocky Shinshu Kyoho, and they're really big! and I found the Pocky Panda cookie & cream I wanted to try for a long time at the 100 Yen store!

so over the next weeks I'll be reviewing these flavours, and being all healthy I'll try not to eat them all at once :)

Pocky Tropical Mango & Pineapple 

The moment you open the package a fruity smell comes your way, it reminds me a bit of vitamin Juice. the color of the chocolate is almost the same as the pretzel stick, a light orange color. You can taste the mango really well but the pineapple flavour (I love pineapple) is really weak, what a shame. this flavour doesn't do much for me, partially because I'm not a big fan op tropical fruit mixes. it's not bad, but certainly not the best either!