CHOCOLATE BANANA POCKY

The ever-so-popular chocolate dipped biscuit in stick form, aka Pocky by Glico, is an internationally recognized snack and with that comes an whole world-wide variety of flavors.

Today's Pocky find will be on this Chocolate Banana flavored biscuit stick. Usually the biscuit stick is not flavored, but for the Chocolate Banana flavor profile, the biscuit now a chocolate flavor dipped in a banana cream covering.

I'm usually a huge fan of artificially flavored banana products (Banana milk by Binggrae, Banana Ice Cream, Banana Laffy Taffy, etc) so of course I wanted to try this one.

First impressions of this product is the overpowering artificial smell. It literally hits you once you open up the package. I was a bit put off by it, but thought that the taste would make up for it. Nope. The fake banana cream flavor was a bit TOO fake for me, the kind that leaves a weird plastic-y feeling in your mouth. The cream didn't really melt in your mouth either, unlike regular chocolate pocky that melts right away--probably due to all the artificial ingredients in it.

The verdict? I was definitely disappointed and not a fan. No wonder it was on sale for $1.99 (regular price around $2.49). This product just doesn't move and the flavor, though interesting, doesn't live up to the flavor quality i'm used to with other Glico products. 

If you're dying to try it, then by all means go for it but for everyone else, this can  be skipped over.

Readers, have you tried any Pocky before? What are your favorite flavors?

Glico's Midi Poterri Matcha Pocky: Review

I was able to get my hands on this midi green tea pocky stocks and I have to say, they're really kawaii (cute!)

You really don't get a lot in here (I feel like they could have placed 16 sticks in here) and the sticks are these short chubby matcha/maccha cream coated pocky sticks.

As you can see, the sticks are dipped and coated with a lot more of the chocolate than normal pocky sticks.

Overall, I have to say that though you don't get a lot of the sticks, the flavor of the green tea chocolate is excellent and eating the chubby sticks just seem to be a little more fun than normal sizes.

I did receive this as a sample, but I believe this retails from $1.99 to $2.29 or somewhere along that line.

If you can find it at your local Asian or Japanese market and love green tea flavored snacks, then I highly recommend this one!