Japan's largest snacking website mognavi.jp publishes the Japan Snack Awards list every day in the middle of the year and at the end of the year, summarizing the most popular snacks in this period based on comments from netizens. According to the comments on the website from November 1, 2017 to October 31, 2018, the list of the most popular snacks in the second half of 2018 is out!
The next time the plane lands in Japan, take a picture at the nearest convenience store. If you don't have any travel plans to Japan for the time being, the good news is that there are some world snacks in this list that can also be bought at home. Thanks to convenience stores, convenience stores are the light of the world.
First of all, if you are too lazy to read too much, or give yourself only a little snack quota, take a look at the top three of the comprehensive list:
Pino Chocolate Crispy Vanilla Ice Cream from Morinaga Dairy.
Well, eat ice cream in winter, be happy.
top 2.
Nissin cup noodles
This year's simple Nissin Cup Noodles won second place.
The award speech goes like this: "Sometimes I want to eat a bowl of Nissin cup noodles, it's gentle, nostalgic, and it's really delicious." ”
top 3.
haagen dazs mini cup vanilla cup
The whole world loves Haagen-Dazs, of course, other flavors are very praised, but this time, it is also the purest vanilla flavor back to dominate the list.
In addition to the top three, the champions of various categories are below, and this year's list of traditional flavors has returned, while matcha, grapefruit, and sweet potato are good flavors that are welcomed in all categories.
Best Chocolate
Meiji melty kiss premium chocolate - winter only
It's a sweet kiss that belongs only to winter, melting the taste of winter with rich cocoa powder, as if eating winter into your stomach.
uha taste sugar - Anna taro honey from Kagoshima Prefecture
This uha taste candy looks sweet potato flavored... Using Kagoshima's sweet potatoes, Kagoshima's sweet potato production is the largest in the country, and it is said to account for 40% of the national production, and the variety of "Anna Taro" is called the sweet potato with the highest sugar content. The sweet sweet potato taste, combined with the mellowness of milk, is the feeling when eating this sugar.
Speaking of which, winter is when you miss the taste of sweet potatoes.
Best Cookies
Tohato salty salt flavored butter biscuits
Finally, there's a cookie that salty snack lovers can try.
This butter biscuit uses gelando salt salt from France, and the crispy texture has a hint of saltiness that better accentuates the buttery aroma of the biscuit.
Best Pastry
7-11 Matcha flavor dense mackie
This is a puff dessert made with Uji green tea. Using 1.2 times the amount of traditional matcha, the slight bitterness is exactly what matcha lovers really want. Compared with the price of 130 yen (about 8 yuan), it is already very good to be able to do this.
Best Japanese dim sum
7-11 Matcha daifuku produced
It's still matcha, it's still 711, but this time it's a Japanese confectionery "Daifuku".
The rich matcha cream and black honey flavored fillings are delicately combined to strike a balance between sweet and bitter, fluffy and moist, and glutinous rice dumpling lovers like me should not miss it.
Best cup for snacks
7-11 Pumpkin Pudding
It's a rich-tasting pumpkin puree, plus a smooth flavored sweet cream and bittersweet caramel sauce that's as cute as a small portable pumpkin.
Best snack
Calebbe cheese flavors thick cut potato chips
This "pizza potato" with four different cheeses delights pizza lovers, thick-cut potato chip lovers and cheese lovers.
Best carbonated drink
Suntory sugar-free ginger flavored soda
This "zero calorie sugar-free carbonated water" makes people enjoy the taste of carbonated acid with zero guilt, while the slight ginger-stimulating taste makes it not as boring as a bottle of soda.
Best soy milk/milk drink
Japan's first national coffee brand doutor's cherry-scented white chocolate latte cup 200ml
Doutor produces a very girly white chocolate latte with a focus on cherry blossom flavors. Comments such as "Feel the cherry blossoms in your mouth" and "You can't help but smile when you take a sip" are very heartwarming.
Best tea drink/coffee
Starbucks gold late cup
After improving the ratio of coffee to milk, a portable coffee with a "rich bitterness", the fans in the reviews felt that the taste was still quite worthy of the name "gold".
Best alcoholic beverage
Asahi grapefruit flavor cocktail
Grapefruit is the most popular flavor this year, and this drink contains a whopping 41% grapefruit content (the second place fruit on the wine beverage rankings has only 29% content, and the third place is 31%)
So people actually like to drink grapefruit juice, and then add a little alcohol that makes people slightly drunk (4% alcohol) Oh?
Interestingly, this year's second place in alcoholic beverages is also the yuzu flavored Kirin Pink Grapefruit Cocktail, which may be worse than the first place because it only has a 29% yuzu content.
Best non-alcoholic beverages
Suntory white peach carbonated drink
Not a particularly sweet refreshing peach-flavored drink, the comments are very graphic: when you want to have a little carbonated drink when you eat fries, come to a bottle of this, when you pour it in the glass, with the sound of the carbonated drink into the glass, you will find that it is a beautiful pink ocean.
Best soup
kotokoto corn soup
The rich corn flavor, the warmth of a cup of yellow in winter.
Meiji the greek yogurt
A rich Greek yogurt, sugar-free, rich in protein and low in calories. It can be said that it is a model student in snacks!
Best Healthy Desserts:
Glico sunao fermented butter biscuits
A very healthy (dull) biscuit that combines healthy concepts such as food fiber, fermentation, and low sugar, and the small package of 15 pieces looks very light.
Balanced and nutritious food of the year
Asahi Cream Brown Rice White Wine Strawberry Praline Chocolate
It looks rich and is actually very rich in "Balanced Nutrition food of the year", bitter brownies, with a rich strawberry sandwich, it is not a secret, very much want to eat.
Best sweet bread
First bread steamed potato flavor
Very simple, pure taste, when you want to eat a sweet potato but can't buy it, use this bread instead.
7-11 Cream cheese and basil chicken breast flavored sandwich
Although it may seem to be more bland (just a normal 7-11 sandwich), it tastes really good, the basil is fragrant, the cream cheese is smooth, and if you want an affordable and delicious breakfast, you can try this taste.
Best meal bread
Pasco super cooked English muffins
It's a muffin, but it's a light muffin that can clip everything with a flatbread, and it's a good supporting role, white, thick, fluffy and soft.
Best cereal
Hershey's chocolate filled cereal
Without further ado, cereal with chocolate milk fillings is the king of cereal in every child's heart (and mine).
For some simple chocolate cereal lovers, this king-level cereal can also be eaten directly without milk, so that it is crunchy.
Rosen pompom purin pudding dog cream bun
"Every time you buy it, your face is different" is one of the biggest selling points of this bag, and the comments are full of all kinds of long-biased dogs.
After all, the top three bag players are the following style, so "what kind of face can I meet today" is the biggest expectation when I go to buy cream buns with animal patterns at convenience stores.
Rosen spicy kimchi flavored fried chicken
With its unique pickle flavor, this fried chicken has become a "small challenge in ordinary life".
Best convenience store coffee
Family Rum raisin ice cream smoothie
A novel rum raisin smoothie with a little real wine and an alcohol content of 0.3%.
Happier than eating ice cream in the winter is eating a little bit of drunken rum ice cream.
Best donuts
7-11 Sweet potato flavored donuts
Sesame and sweet potato flavor doughnut, this year's sweet potato flavor can be really red.
Image source: mognavi.jp, Visual China