Some sweet Japanese treats

If sushi is the only food you can think of when you think of Japan you're missing out on a lot of other sweet stuff. Here are a few examples of some Japanese sweet food stuffs:

Here we see RatCat eating a type of sweet bun called melonpan (melon bread). They don't get their name because they taste like melon (they generally don't), but because they kinda look like a melon (kinda...). RatCat's favorite has chocolate chips.

BFFB is eating a butterfly sized Pocky (a type of cookie stick covered in chocolate). It's quite a well known treat and available in many countries other than Japan. A wide of flavors exist, but the chocolate is really the classic Pocky.

Finally we have Count Slugula munching on some, slug-sized, Dango. Dango is a type of sweet dumpling made from rice flour and many flavors exist. Slugula is eating a classic: the hanami (flower viewing) dango.


That's it for today. Tomorrow we'll have some monsters you can fit in our pocket (come on, you know what I'm talking about!). Until then! =^o,,o^=