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Sometimes it doesn’t matter whether you live in Silicon Valley or Tokyo. For afternoon snack we went to Imahara Fresh Produce. We weren’t interested in the fresh produce though, just the snack aisle next to the registers. Rebecca picked the Hello Kitty strawberry jelly filled marshmallows, a health food nightmare! She decided they didn’t have nearly enough strawberry jelly in the middle, just a little smear sadly. We got the Pocky for Penelope, and I have a soft spot in my heart for C.C. Lemon and Apollo strawberry chocolates, which I only just realized refer to how the candy is in the vague shape of the Apollo space capsule. 10 years, it only took me 10 years to figure that out… oy.
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Add Yours →Why is it that Japanese junk food is so appealing, I ask myself? When we first moved here, it was a big draw for our children. Back home, I had been so restrictive about junk food – but here, it was a fun cultural thing to draw us in to our new lives.
And one learns a new thing every day – I have been living here for years and never knew that about the Apollo chocolates….
I think most foreign junk food is appealing! And easy to justify eating as cultural. 🙂 I finally made the Apollo connection when I was working out the katakana characters on the box. I think I was trying to make them say strawberry or ichigo, which the obviously don’t… I think I thought Apollo was part of the brand before I realized it was the main word on the front of the box. Anyway… I love all Japanese food!
We love pocky too after my brother brought us back some from Japan. Who would have known we could get it down the road at wal-mart.
Yes, pocky is so totally main stream now it’s funny!
I don’t know if I ever would have put together the name and the chocolate shape.
And authentic Japanese food is something I thoroughly enjoyed during the five years I spent in Silicon Valley…
Did you live here? I must have forgotten that!