 Thanks for checking out this unboxing video, and this is the video for the March Snaku box Which if people didn't know what this is just go back to my first video, which was for the February Snaku basically, it's just a bunch of snacks from Japan curated by a guy Shigeki who I think the whole story was that he had been going to Japan For some reason and then coming back to the United States and kept bringing snacks with him and Would give them to other people and they'd be like, oh, can you pick me up this or that when I when you go back? So then he was like hey, I can make a whole, you know business model out of this So that's how you have Snaku. This is the tasting box version Which is the cheaper of the two the regular box has a lot more items and it has more of those items This is usually I think like five to seven items and it's just smaller portions So as it says tasting box, you're just gonna taste a little bit Which is perfect for me because I just want to taste a little I don't want a ton So I'm got my water sitting over here Make sure you got to have some water for these things. So like I said, this is the March one I was quite happy with the February one last month. So go ahead and check that out We'll read off the card. So this one it doesn't say it on the card, but this is Osaka This is the theme for Osaka for March Just as a reminder like each month. That's a different region typically that's that's highlighted except for last month, it was just kind of like love or like things associated with like Valentine's Day, so Not gonna read you information on Osaka, but if you want to pause and read There you go. You can do that You can read the information on Osaka So there's a few things in here. It's always nicely wrapped in there Packed for how small this is one fell out, but for how small this is is packed pretty tightly See all that stuff tons of stuff. So you're gonna go through this I'm only gonna eat a little bit of each one of these because I then share them with my wife Because she wants to try them So thankfully there's two of these which I'll just kick this off with and this is the Sorry for my pronunciation up front Okonomiyaki Okonomiyaki Sunba I believe It's a savory version of a Japanese pancake made with flour eggs shredded cabbage Meat and topped with a variety of condiments. It's apparently very popular street food That was actually created on these streets of Osaka apparently This one's busted up, which you know That's gonna happen when it's being shipped but Smells fishy So they shrimp You can see Not quite sure exactly what all the stuff is But it's almost very very fishy. It's good It's got like a Like a crunch and a consistency that's between a cracker and a chip really I get a lot of kind of like the seafood Coming through at the end which is coming off kind of like shrimp There's a little sweetness up front Do I love this? No, do I dislike it? Also, no, I'm in the middle on this. I don't like love it. I don't hate it. It's interesting The fishiness is probably what's going to turn most people off. I'm trying to figure out what's on there. I can't I think Looks like maybe like a dehydrated tomato on there Can't really pick out all that many actual items, but yeah, it might not be Shrimp actually it might just be like pieces of dehydrated fish on here, but That's an interesting one the Okonomiyaki Senpai Not bad not my favorite but not bad. I haven't feeling my wife's not gonna like that one We'll see. All right, so the next one this one's real interesting looking This is a black sesame Senpai. It's also like a rice cracker It's a soy sauce rice cracker twice toasted and embedded with baked black sesame seeds I better cleanse my palate because of this fishiness Looks like it's from Halloween time because there's like a ghost in there, which is weird Kind of looks a little bit like a like a pork rind in a sense You can see it's a little bit like a pork rind, but with rice You know smell that soy sauce. Oh There's like a tanginess Upfront I get that with a lot of like rice crackers and um, that's one of the things I really like about rice crackers So this starts with that tanginess. It's more dense than I thought it was gonna be but that's good It adds more crunch. So a consistency thing is kind of like a fun thing for snacks for me Hmm So I don't Hmm I was gonna say I don't necessarily taste the sesame, but actually as I was saying that I think I started to actually Taste a little bit of the sesame So really plenty of soy sauce the sweetness on there is almost a little bit like an Apple cider vinegar without the sour vinegar portion of it, which is kind of weird When you definitely get the rice flavor and the sesame, it's really good. I actually really like this I'm a rice cracker fan anyway, so something like this is like bound to please for me So that was the black sesame senpai Mmm. Oh, I'm like the residual like soy sauce On there. Oh my god. Honestly like that like soy sauce Coating on the outside is way more rich and flavorful than any other ones I've had from rice crackers in the United States That's delicious. I like that a lot. Hmm. I hope my wife takes one little bite of it and doesn't like it Cuz I want to finish it Cuz yeah, there's not an additional one in here, boo But you know, so there are two of these though Those this is the a koshi. It's a traditional puffed rice snack Made with Miyazaki rice Oh, so people probably want to see the packaging or some people probably want to see the packaging You can see it right there Yeah, it kind of looks like a rice crispy treat with larger Rice pieces rather crispy like rice crispy pieces. See it's kind of like a yeah, like a rice crispy treat looking ordeal You definitely get a lot of rice Flavor to it There's a sweetness like honey Yeah, it's like puffed rice with like a honey sweetness to it and it comes off a little like cereal like like not quite It's like Golden grams without like the cinnamon almost a little bit like a little graham cracker II pretty good It's just kind of like a Yeah, it's kind of like between Like a rice crispy treat and like graham cracker ash like version of that was a lot of honey flavoring to it It's very like cereal in the way it tastes. I Don't love it. It's okay That um, black sesame senpai was awesome. Uh decent Next thing you get two of these these are sweet bean cakes very excited about these because My favorite thing from the last box had like red bean paste In it, there's just It was like little Pancakes with like a red bean paste in between So let's try these sweet bean cakes soft chewy baked dough filled with Japanese sweet bean paste Yeah, they feel you know, they feel a little bit hard on the outside because they're they're like toasted but A little bit soft when I apply pressure to it and it looks like there's like a sweet sauce Maybe on on the top there and then when I shake it I Can hear the paste on the inside It's like one little brick and it's moving around in there. So I know it's in there It's very cake-like on the outside as you can see bit in there and there's just That bean paste in there It actually kind of tastes similar to that thing I was talking about having last time but Not as good It's mainly just very cakey And it's less like pancake cakey like the other one and more kind of like a really like light cakey cookie It's like sugary a little bit of vanilla to it And then that red bean paste like I described in the last video tastes a decent amount like like fig just like a sweeter version of a fig That's solid Once again, like I don't love it but I like it and Glad I had the opportunity to try let's take that one for last maybe go with this one All right Something I'm potentially not gonna like at all because it's a flavor thing for me. This is Osaka mochi banana That's a traditional baked castella and mochi cake made in Osaka. That's filled with banana custard I'm not a banana fan. Now. Let me qualify that by saying that I like bananas But I don't like banana flavored things and I typically don't like banana in things. So For that reason if I don't like this it's just gonna be because I'm not a banana person Well, I guess I can't say it's just gonna be because of that but it's going in with that disadvantage. Let me say that much All right. Oh, it's cute Like literally looks like a little banana and it comes with like one of those little silica packets to keep moisture down because Oh my god, it smells so much like banana because it's really really soft you probably can't tell let me see if I can I can show you like how see how much I can like Squish it like really really soft and spongy smells so much like banana, but Honestly, it smells like a mix between like actual banana and like a banana flavor like the banana runs have just like an Artificial banana it's kind of between the two She's like a little banana. I try it. I mean if I could see people who like banana stuff really enjoying this It's not for me so much just because Like if you can see that there you go, it's like a You see that it's kind of like a paste in there So it kind of tastes like it has a consistency of like like a mashed up banana, but it's sweeter It's got that banana flavor, but it's sweeter and it also has that kind of like sugary artificial banana flavor as Well and smell But I think that someone who's really into like banana flavored things and things made with banana could really like this It's not my thing though Not my thing Yeah, it's very sweet though. I could see actually kind of enjoying that if it was Literally the same like you know real soft cake on the outside Which is like really nice and soft with actual mashed banana in there with like no extra sweetening I can probably like that, but that's just me The next thing this is interesting Um this looks like this might be an extra something that was thrown in here Yeah, this is an extra because it's not on the card here, and I think this was actually from January's box maybe add some extras Cuz forget what region that was supposed to be But they did a lot of stuff with like potato items and like purple potatoes and stuff like that So I was kind of interested in that so this one looks like a like a little pastry with Whipped like potato purple potato Surprising new sweet with a classic taste is what it says on it But it doesn't say what it is unless I could read Japanese which I cannot Oh, it says tart on there, but It's platinum sweet tart. So I'm assuming it's going to have sweetness to it and be sugary Which would make sense See if I can find an easier way in it has like a little rip tab area Make a little bit of them getting crumbs all over. I'll have to clean that up later All right, here we go So yeah, it's just like a like a little pastry boat With the purple what I assume is potato It smells really sweet though Vanilla actually kind of smells like a nilla wafer like this vanilla wafer things. That's what smells like sugary That's definitely purple potato You get that immediately from the consistency and like how starchy it is You know how like potatoes like after you've had mashed potatoes And then they like kind of set in the refrigerator like that consistency when you bite into them If you don't warm them back up It's that but there's like a decent amount of sugar added to it and it tastes a little vanilla-y for being potato It doesn't taste as much like potato as I would assume it would so I guess that's in its favor actually because you know Who really wants to eat a pastry that tastes like straight-up potato because potatoes are pretty bland. Let's be honest. I Don't love that It's okay, and it's especially because of what it is like being potato So I don't know Not big on that one, but it's fine Fine next. I'm gonna leave that one for last So you got two of this next one. This one looked very interesting Osaka choco egg It's a bite-sized cake in the shape of an egg covered with white chocolate Apparently these are like really popular in Osaka specifically. So as you can see it says Osaka choco tamago Once again my pronunciation how I'm saying things. I'm sorry I don't know Japanese. I'm just I'm guessing at how these words should be said Okay, here we go Yes, you can tell it's covered in white chocolate And it's egg-shaped Yes, and it's soft though under it because I can squeeze it You definitely taste the white chocolate on the outside It's a little bit waxy as white chocolate typically is There's a little bit of a lemony flavor in there, and it's very very sugary so the inside On the card Looks like it's supposed to have Like some sort of like lemony filling and that you probably won't really be able to see it especially because like the crumbs Let's see if that like helps with the lighting. It's like in there You don't really see it too well, and I believe that's probably where I'm getting that kind of like low Like lemony flavor. There's like a vanilla in there, too. It's very very cakey very light very moist That's pretty good. I Like that one It's good and actually that like while I was saying I do get the flavor of the white chocolate and definitely the like Waxy consistency, I think it's coming off a little bit more vanilla than like white chocolate Which is fine with me because I'm actually not huge on like chocolate. So now we're coming to the final Item it is pucco cola Pucco cola or pucco cola It's a fun fizzy cola flavored yogurt candy and apparently once again. It says on here It's very very popular in Japan not just in Osaka, but Japan in general. Oh Sorry, I probably should have showed you That is the packaging You see some cola over here Yep. All right. I'm gonna give this a try. I'm very interested in this because this could be really weird Individually wrapped kind of like little pieces of gum Okay, so says yogurt covered. Yeah, it looks like it's yogurt covered. I mean they look like little kind of like a little bit lighter in coloration like caramel so Sorry, my MacBook was trying to shut down on me. So there you go. Looks like little caramels are soft. Oh Yeah, so it's like a chew. I'm getting a fizz in the middle Dude, these are cool. These are cool. I like this so I Don't need a whole lot of candy like this. I don't need a whole lot of candy in general there were a lot of sweet stuff but I like that a lot Totally tastes like cola It's chewy It's like a little bit chewier When something like a starburst and once you bite and get far enough into the center of it It does kind of like fizz But the fizzy stuff kind of explodes in your mouth And you just kind of like feel the fizz going through that throughout your mouth and the flavor along with that of the cola mmm Totally tastes like cola. It actually tastes like Fitting ones ever had like this little gummy colas, which I think are made by like Haribo or Haribo tastes like that but in like You know like starburst type form Very robust flavor. That's really good totally tastes like cola That's fun. I like that And that's it. That's all it was in there I mean I say all but like that's a good amount because this is $15 and 75 cents And that includes tax that includes shipping So I'm totally good with that So let's do kind of like a little bit of a recap real quick of what I didn't did not like the Osaka choco egg pretty good The mochi banana not my thing. Some people may like it. I don't know the okonomiyaki Senpai Kind of weird it had a lot of fishiness to it But I didn't hate it. It was okay the okoshi Right there that was kind of like the rice crispy treat. I mean it didn't have a whole lot going on It's very like honey like black sesame senpai That was one of my favorite things in this box. That's so tasty. So so tasty Yeah, I really enjoyed that the sweet bean cake down here. That was pretty good A lot of like that sweet red bean flavor to it very bready moist and then the pucco or pucho cola right down there, which we just had excellent very good and then the extra that uh that uh purple potato tart That was I mean it was potatoes with sweet sweetness added Okay Overall, this was good. I got enough stuff out of it that it's totally worth it for me Like I said, it's not a very expensive box or anything. So The main allure is just trying new stuff from over there. It's really really nice Actually, it's interesting because the aftertaste of these like cola things There's like a mintiness in there. That's kind of like lingering in my mouth Which is one of the components of that's going into the cola flavor So it's very interesting But yeah, no, I like this snaku keep doing what you're doing. I cannot wait to get the next one I can't wait to just keep going with this people. 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