There's a company in Hokkaido that makes chocolate sandwich cookies (kinda like Golden Oreos except square). The name of the company is
Shiroi Koibito, which roughly translates as "white boyfriend/girlfriend", which I personally think is a little odd, but might be explained by the fact that the original flavour of this snack was white chocolate and mabye the cookie is the BF/GF.. I dunno.. Anyways.. they have a factory that apparantly is run by Willie Wonka and is open for tours by the public.
The actual assembly line is hardly spectacular, but the main courtyard has a massive animatronic clockwork display on all sides that comes to live every hour. From hippos, to bakers, to chocolate animals, to (la creme de la creme)
bubbles. The other highlight was the wall of popular character based stampy knick-knacky things.
###J-popular culture quiz###
How many of
these can you identify?
They may be just bubbles, but watching them, I still felt like Eddie Murphy in "Trading Places"
2 comments:
I just found you blog through Gina's blog. Do u know who i am?
During old days in HK, if someone go to Japan, bring back shiroi koibito (white lover) is a must. Most of the HK people (or asians) love this chocolate so much. Nowadays you can find in HK Japanese department store. No need to buy from Hokkaido. But I still wish to visit their factory.
HT Ng
I'm not sure.. We've met before?
Oh wow, I'm surprised that you can get it in HK/. Its still pretty rare to find in Japan outside of Hokkaido (although there are other similar products)
Thanks for the info,
Damian
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