Kaiten Zushi is basically conveyor belt sushi. As in, sushi on small round plates go around on a conveyor belt in front of diners who pick up whichever plate they want to try.
This gummy is based on that concept, but instead of tasting like fish and rice, the flavours are apple, melon, and strawberry.
There are 7 pieces of "shari" (rice) and 7 various pieces of ingredient that goes on top of the rice. In this case the rice is apple flavour, 4 of the ingredients are strawberry flavour, and the other 3 are melon flavour.
When you open the packet, there is a sealed section containing the gummy. You peel the plastic off, somewhat like plastic cheese, and the rubbery little pieces of gummy sushi come with it, so you have a kind of clear plate with "sushi" on it.
There is also another component to this gummy. When you place the ingredients on the rice, it combines both flavours and turns into a new one.
Apple + Strawberry = Peach
Apple + Melon = Banana
Apple + Melon = Banana
Each piece is quite small, 2cm x 1cm. The rice base is a very weak apple, and quite chewy. The melon is more like gummy in that it is a transparent orange. It has a strong flavour of melon and is enjoyable. The strawberry is also a transparent red colour, but this one tastes like watered down strawberry concentrate with more water than concentrate.
Combined together, the melon and apple tasted like banana while still maintaining the original flavours. However, the strawberry and apple really didn't taste much like peach until I had swallowed it.
Yasu and I ate this together, and while we found it interesting and quite fun at first, the flavours just didn't do it for us. We felt the flavour was too weak, and the base was too rubbery.
We don't want to eat it again but it was fun and quite unique for a one-time snack. The packet has a lot of cute graphics and there is a quiz on the back. The website also has a lot of fun interactive games and downloads to keep kids entertained online.
| Brand: Meiji Calories per pack: 71 Website: http://okashi-land.jp Buy it now at napaJapan |
3 comments:
Haha, this seems like a fun snack, but not very tasty. And honestly, the picture of the actual candy doesn't look very flattering.
The whole, transforming into a different flavor seems cool though.
I don't understand how those combinations can make entirely new flavors. I definitely want to try these though.
@ Storybookdreamer - hey sorry, I'm not the best photographer around though I try my best
@ Rodzilla - you can still taste the orginal flavours underneath but it must have some chemical reaction going on to produce the new flavour. Though the original two flavours are not entirely wiped out by the new one so it's kind of like tasting two flavours at once. You should definitely try it if only for curiosity sake!
Thank you both for commenting :)
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