 Thank you for checking out this unboxing video. This is a unboxing for the August Snaku box So a few things one sorry. This is actually pretty late Sorry, let me get the there we go lights a little bit better. That's my first. Sorry actually sorry. I'm lying Sorry, this is actually late. I've actually had this box for a few weeks It's just life gets crazy and you try and figure out where you can fit things in so it's not snack Who's fault that there hasn't been an unboxing and tasting of this box. It's my fault. So sorry about that The other thing is I'm battling something sinuses issues here. So I'm gonna try and keep my energy level up to the best I came with smelling and tasting and If I sound weird, sorry about that because it's whatever's going on here Need some water Hate this time of year Like I always have this problem when when the season shift when it goes from summer to fall and then when it goes from winter To spring always gets me. All right, so let's get into this box. So the theme on it. I Think it's samurai actually As you can see it looks samurai-ish and Then if you want to quick, I'm not gonna read the opening thing But I will put it up there if you want to read that and then if you want to get a little preview you can Go ahead and pause And see what's gonna be in there. There's something in particular that doesn't show up in these boxes a ton Then I'm excited about So when we get to it, I'll let you know All right, the other thing is I'm gonna try not to like bite things in half I'm gonna try and break them in half This is why I have a plate down here because I'm gonna make crumbs because I want my wife to be able to try another half of what I tried And since I'm dealing with something. Maybe it's a cold. I don't know. I don't want to get her sick. So the first thing is Dude to do Variety bites a mixture of traditional Japanese crackers includes baby shrimp senpai dried whiting fish Squid crackers peanut cracker ball sea weed senpai and sesame crackers peanut cracker ball So normally I would say not gonna open this because we get things like this Quite a quite a bit in in Snaku But the peanut ball has me kind of interested so I'm actually gonna go ahead and open this one It just it just smells like the shrimp crackers. It's very very strong Maybe this now. This looks like it would be like a twice baked Semi Yeah, man, no one's tastes like fried Like sweet salty soy sauce That's awesome. I love that. That's really good. What is this? Is this the whiting fish? Maybe I don't know There's something coming off it. It's a little fishy. Yeah, it's fishy Tastes a little fried, but it's not too fishy. It's just like a little bit of fishiness Crackery little sweetness It's actually pretty good. I'm a fan of that. I guess this is a peanut ball. I Mean it's a ball Kind of the only thing that's a ball in there. So I kind of shouldn't know that from the get-go Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh So it's sweet, but it's not crazy sweet It's almost a little bit like a honey peanut because there's a peanut-iness in there. That's good actually This is honestly one of the Actually, this is one of the best of these types of variety bite things that they've ever done in this box in my opinion This one's good. So I'm actually glad That we have two of them I'm gonna set that aside for now That's good. My wife's probably not gonna like I'm just like stuff like that typically All right, let's go to our next thing Got two of these. Let's give this a go. So that one was under the popular snacks Do you know on this side are the featured snacks? This side are the popular snacks that one was a prop popular snack this one Should be a featured snack Komabiki I believe is what this is. Yeah, it feels like it is I'll read the description on that So the Komabiki another old-school favorite from Bezegna a soft sesame wafer stuff Stuffed with locally produced mochi and a bit of a zuki red bean paste perfect with a nice cup of tea. Okay, so this speaks To me because I like the red bean paste and I like mochi So hopefully this one's good. Oh man, it's like really soft So it kind of like feels a little bit like a waffle on the outside like it looks like a waffle and feels a little bit like it But it's super Flimsy and pliable you can see You can kind of see that there's the mochi in there Just smells like bready slightly sweet. Yeah mochi and Red bean paste I mean So in this case I Don't feel like the mochi adds much of any flavor to it Just a little bit of sugar in this the red bean paste is mainly what the flavor is with this and the outside like waffley cookie thing Just kind of there To contain everything so you guys can see the red bean paste in there with the mochi If you like mochi, if you like red bean paste and you're fine with the consistency or you like the consistency of mochi You'd be down with this. I like it. Oh, damn it Sorry, I said I was gonna like break stuff off and I already forgot that my wife's not gonna eat this anyway Though because she does not like red bean paste and she doesn't like mochi. So double strike. I See this whole thing not right now, but a little bit later Put that down All right, I'm just some water. Sorry. I put my water on The table that my laptop is on where I'm recording so it kind of like shakes it a little bit So my apologies on that. Okay, so here. Let's do this. Oh, this is another one of the featured snacks It's a sesame senpai love senpai if you've been watching these, you know it Um Kind of looks like like a bird seed suet cake or something like that Toasted sesame seeds are needed into a rice cracker senpai and then lightly baked in a clay oven a simple yet Delicious snack from Bezinia. That's another one from Bezinia, which actually I've never even heard of that area So it's kind of new to me There we go Usually the packaging is relatively easy to get into with these Japanese snacks Yeah, see like I said, it kind of looks like a Suet cake it smells a little nutty actually it smells a little peanutty Which is interesting. It's kind of like peanut. I mean, I guess that's kind of like What the sesame is doing with the sugary nest that's in there because it's like sweet sugary Little peanutty Kind of smells like a peanut butter cookie because there's a decent sugary-ness to it. It smells like a cookie Hmm. It's a little chewy actually Oh, it's kind of crisp, but it's kind of chewy and I think part of the reason for that is it's very dense with the sesame seeds in there and The sesame seeds are like kind of hollow on the inside. So there's a lot of give I Just mainly tastes like sweet. It's like sugary sesame seeds Damn it. I didn't break this off either. Oh, well, it's fine She's not gonna care for this either. She's not using sesame What does she like that's that question? I don't know You'll find something in here It almost does start to taste a little bit peanutty as you keep going, but it's a lot of sesame flavor It's just like sugary sesame. It's good. I like it. I Like sesame a lot too. That's another thing I just find that like a lot of these things that are popular flavor-wise in Japan. I'm just like I'm all about it. Awesome Okay, let's go with something on the featured side Yes Kappa ebison Kappa ebison. I don't know. I do my best at pronunciation So this is arguably the most popular snack in Japan. These have been a staple Japanese snacks since the release in 1964 Once you start eating them, you won't be able to stop Challenge accepted. I like once you can open cleanly on the top like that. Oh They smell. Oh, yeah, there you go. I failed to notice They shrimp on the front shrimp prawn. I don't know Whatever you want to go. I know there's probably a diff I know there's a difference, but I just I don't know Yes, it smells like shrimpy Yep, it's like all I smell So that flavor clashes with that sweet sesame thing. I just had so that's kind of rough But the more I eat it it's kind of light It almost tastes like a puffy potato chip With a little bit of that shrimp flavor. It's not super pronounced So I actually like this and there's a little bit of a saltiness to it This is pretty good I see what you're saying If you don't like any shrimp flavor whatsoever, you're not gonna be okay with this But if you're okay with some shrimpiness You'll be all right with this. It's it's I like it. I don't like a lot of shrimp shrimpiness to it. That's good So, you know, it's got to be on the low end That's good. I enjoy that Pretty pretty good Sorry Okay, I think this is The black thunder. Oh, yeah, there's like lightning on it. So it should be I think that's upside down. I don't know. Yeah Okay, so the black thunder Original snack. This is on the popular snacks regional snack that can only be found in tokyo A chocolate crunch that covers baked brown sugar glazed peanuts Sounds up my alley. I love I obviously like a lot of people. I like chocolate. I love peanuts and peanut butter So Should be good. Oh, this looks like it melted at some point. Maybe You see the bottom's kind of like melty looking Yeah, you see that's like crispies in there. I'm just gonna eat this whole thing If my wife wants some she can have the extra That's what we can do Whatever I assume there is. Oh, no, there might not be another one. Oh, no, wait, there it is I was almost potentially in trouble Really nice milk chocolate to it. It's sweet, but it's not crazy sweet. I definitely start to get the peanut-y-ness There's a really nice crunch from those like crispies in there A little puff of rice No I mean It starts to taste a little Kit Kat like With like the wafers because of like the the crispy little puffed rice That's really good. That's really tasty. Um, that's probably the most milk chocolatey tasting snack Japanese snack that I've ever gotten in one of these snack ooze and it is really good I said it's only available in tokyo Yeah, you only get it in tokyo It's really good though black thunder Really nice. Hmm Definitely have to cleanse my palate after that so rich. So chocolatey very very tasty great dessert Okay, let's jump to this. This is interesting and this is already this one's already like broken in half. So I'll be good Um, this is from the featured honey sugar waffle when Tokugawa became the shogun. He moved the Japanese capital to ito modern-day tokyo Yokomoku is a popular high-end snack shop in tokyo They recently came out with this new snack Which has been a huge hit this crispy waffle cookie is drizzled with honey from world japan and baked to perfection Well, you can assume there's honey because there's a bee on it and it's kind of like shaped like a honeycomb Which is cool See I like that For the most part they make their packaging pretty accessible like you can really get in there easily United states it's not as much. See it's like honeycomb. It's like half of it. So it kind of looks like a waffle Kind of looks like a waffle It smells like like bran, you know, you have like, um Like a raisin bran or something like that for breakfast. It's got like a real grainy brand types smell There's a little bit of sweetness But not a lot. You definitely smell the honey too Got a really nice crunch to it Oh The honey is really nice. It's not crazy, but you can definitely taste it and it kind of just coats your mouth and It stays with you throughout Um, what you're tasting It's crunchy, but it doesn't hurt your teeth. So it's got like some nice give you can easily go through it Satisfying And it does taste it does not taste like Super-processed honey from like a large corporation. It really does taste like More rich and flavorful and it has more Dimensions to the actual honey flavor I like that It's pretty good. It's not my favorite in this box, but it's pretty solid for what it is It's not something I would naturally reach for and be like, oh something with honey. I'm not huge on like honey type snacks You know Like when I was a kid I like teddy grams, but I only really liked the chocolate chip teddy grams not really like the honey gram ones And I didn't like the the honey honey made graham crackers I need the cinnamon ones. Those were the good ones In my opinion Okay, next let's go with I can break this in half. So this is another featured one. This is goma hitahira Sounds like there's a lot of crumbs in there A limited edition black sesame cookie made by the famous Ginza tamaya Snack shop in central tokyo The slow baked charcoal cookie sandwich is in the shape of a sakura flour pedal and is filled with a slightly sweet black sesame cream I had black sesame stuff in this box a few times and uh been down with it So hopefully that continues. I mean the big thing is I just like sesame in general so Oh It helped together. Okay missing all on the bottom, but yeah, it just looks like It's just black. So this one I am going to remember to actually Break there we go. Okay. So I got a little bit for me. It kind of looks like An Oreo You know, it's like white cream and then the black on the outside What does it smell like? So it smells kind of like a sugar cookie Like a honey driven sugar cookie With like a little bit of a vanilla hint, which I'm assuming is coming from the cream and a little sesame Oh There it is. It takes a little bit you get all the sweetness upfront You get a little bit of a vanilla little honey And then the sesame kicks in on the very end and it's like a really nice kind of toasted sesame flavor Still stuck on my finger in there. That's good I like that. It's a little weird for like a cream filled cookie to taste like a really toasty sesame flavor But it works It's good and it does taste a little bit ashy on the finish. Maybe that's like partially Suggestive, so I'm just getting it. I feel like it does taste a little ashy, which is fine Okay, next thing This must be the Mikawaoi Oh, I'm sorry. I totally screwed that up. I'm sure Mikawaoi. I don't know Um, Bezenya has been making snacks since 1782 and took a guy was hometown of Okazaki This is I'm not gonna say the word again Is one of the first snacks that they made That they made the store first when the store first opened up There's some words missing red bean paste from Hokkaido is filled with locally made mochi And stuffed in a wafer cookie stamped with the family crest of the Tokugawa family Okay, so mochi in there red bean paste That's not though. What's not for me to like I don't know which way it goes My bad All right, here we go I can just eat this one straight up and not try and break it in half Because like I said, my wife doesn't like mochi. She doesn't like red bean paste, so Oh, it's very crumbly So it's kind of like a I don't know It's like real like a really thin wafer on the outside of it Don't really smell like anything actually smells a little like moth balls, which is weird I don't like that like wafery thing on the outside. It's just like really dry Yeah Yeah I don't like that, but I like the red bean paste in here. It tastes very very strongly red bean paste There's a little bit of the mochi in there I guess mainly just for texture I mean When you have something like red bean paste with mochi It's just like the the red bean paste just dominates. You're not gonna taste anything from the actual mochi See, it's okay If you really like red bean paste, that's pretty much all you taste So it's for you Man, I got like so many crumbs on me. I'm gonna slob All right, we're getting there. We got two more two more and actually I I went through all the featured ones Just so you know, so what's left are two of the popular snacks I'm gonna save the one I'm Excuse me. Oh things are on the move here I know you probably didn't need to know that I'm gonna save the one I'm most excited about for last and you when you see it You might be like why are you that excited about that? But you'll see what I'm talking about. Uh, so this is a sky tree baked chocolate. This is a very classy packaging right there No, there's nothing on the back, but classy Base based. Oh my gosh baked milk cookies filled with milk chocolate These cookie cookies are only available if you visit tokyo's sky tree observatory. Oh, that's cool Oh, that's really cool So I bet they look so nice because it's like a touristy thing So that's probably why okay. Oh, that's kind of cool that like it's pretty exclusive then, you know Do you can only get at that place? Yeah, these just look like little like whitish cookies with some chocolate in there. They look good I'm not gonna break this. I can't Oh I smell so much chocolate That's pretty much all I smell. It's like a really nice kind of Milk it's kind of like a mix between a milk and a dark chocolate to be honest It smells really good actually a little more on the milk side. That's pretty much all I smell. It smells very nice so, okay So it tastes good The like but it's like the cookie is like powdered milk kind of so you get that like milk flavor And then you get like the milk chocolate and the chocolate tastes really good And the milk flavor is fine with that chocolate because milk chocolate and milk it's fine But the texture is really weird and throws me off because Like I said, it's like a powdered milk on the cookie part on the outside And it's kind of gross like it's real grainy I don't Because uh Because when I bite into it, it just Immediately starts like falling apart into like just this grainy It's like kind of having like real fine sand in your mouth Yeah I don't know. It's kind of like putting like confectioner sugar in your mouth or something actually a little more grainy than that, but I don't Like it tastes fine, but that texture is terrible like that texture is killing me Bluh, it's kind of like almost nails on a chalkboard like for me I have that problem with textures like another big thing for me is um Like uh cereal marshmallows like those dehydrated marshmallows again things like Lucky Charms Ugh can't do it chewing on those oof. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Just thinking about it's like Even even when they're soaked in milk even when they get you know Way more soft. Okay, so here's the thing I was most interested in most excited for Starberry high chew if people don't know what high chew is and I mean it's kind of like uh like starbursts or I was gonna say like laffy taffy, but a little more like starburst than like a laffy taffy um The thing I like about high chew versus things like starburst and laffy taffy in the united states Is they're sugary and they're like chewy But they're not super sugary especially in comparison. The sugar is way down back You taste more of the actual like fruit in it This extremely extremely popular soft chewy candy was made was first Geez, sorry was first released in 1975. This specific flavor is made with Japanese strawberries. So use actual strawberries It's not like flavors. That's another thing in the united states. If they made something like this It would be like made with strawberry flavoring or made with just random artificial stuff So they're individually wrapped in there, which I like that's nice. They're not big relatively small This one has a nice pink look like you would assume because it's strawberry Yeah, it's nice like light pink. It's a little white in the middle Sorry, my sinuses are going crazy Oh, yeah, it's very like strawberry aromatic It's chewy I don't think it's like it's sweet But it's not really sweet So it's almost a little milky So there's like a creaminess to go along with the strong strawberry flavor And it does taste like You know, you get like Real strawberry, but it's like concentrated It's kind of what it tastes like It's really nice sorry It takes a while to chew these things. I bet there's some people are like, oh my god, I can't handle that sound It's really good though Yeah, I'm gonna put this Thing over here. All right So There we go done. Sorry. Uh, let's sum up what my favorite ones were actually pretty impressed with those variety bites these things Um the high chew obviously, which I just had us pretty excited about Um Other than that really did not like that sky tree Cookie the one with the like the powdered milk outside. No, thank you. The black thunder was quite good But that also tastes like something you could probably get in the united states. Just less sugary version Um other than that the sesame senpai was another thing that I really liked Um, so yeah, those were my favorites. I would say overall a good box It's always good to just try new things Not my favorite box not even close to like my top five I don't think but it's always fun to try new stuff and um, I'm excited Oh, I was almost gonna say I'm excited for the next one I'm actually kind of not excited for the next one for the september Which actually I might get the video out and not too long because I'll get it in like a week or two. Um It's mainly focused on like fruited jellies All right, so I don't know um Could be okay But I'm just thinking ahead and I'm like, I don't really that doesn't sound like great to me But I'm sure there'll be some other stuff thrown in there too. So let's find out together the next time Thank you everyone for checking this out. If you appreciate this or any of my other videos I'd really like it if you could hit that subscribe. That's the best way to pay me back I'll make money on this or anything and I have sponsors None of the stuff's donated to me when I do unboxings. I'm paying for this So if you could just hit that subscribe do me that favor It's like painless for you. It takes like a second and then put some comments down there Would you think about these snacks? What sounded interesting to you? What sounded terrible to you? I'll let me know and we can kind of talk a little bit and thank you very much for checking this out And until next time keep it brutal