Japanese Snack Roundup

My parents sent me some japanese snacks from Japan, which I thought I would start reviewing (see my review of party time crabs). I won't bother with the conventional things like modifications on the Pocky theme, but there are a few that are worth discussion. The first is a WAKAME variation:

And although I like wakame, pickled seaweed isn't really what I expect to find in a little resealable snack pack, complete with a toothpick. Actually, I was thinking that maybe it was candy that looked like wakame, but no, its actually seaweed

I wasn't let down by the promise of "Natural Deliciousness" (conspicuously the only english on the package). It was indeed tasty, but seems to score low with western palates like chloe's, who spat it out upon contact with her tongue.

Next up, one of my favorites, and not new to me: crazy sour things.

These are little sugary drops, coated with what must be pure citric acid. They are REALLY sour at first, but relent into a kind of gummy sweetness. I've noticed that your tongue actually starts to physically hurt after eating too many of these.

Finally, Choco Baby.

In the land of fancy chocolates, I haven't been able to bring myself to open these yet, because they look like little chocolate flavored wax pellets. I envision a huge extruding machine where the plastic waste of tokyo, and some small molecule which tricks your brain into thinking "chocolate!" are fed into one end, and little pellets are fired out of the other end. I won't be tasting these unless I get very, very hungry.