 Thank you for checking out this unboxing video. This is for the July snack who box which is always a good time treats from Japan and Yeah, so Usually a big fan of this one. I Usually try and get to it as fast as possible. So I apologize that I didn't get to this faster I've actually had this for over a week. Maybe even close to two weeks. It's just I've been kind of busy The other thing is if I start to look like I'm getting a little Glistening it's because it's a little warm at the moment because I always have to turn the air conditioning off when I do these videos Because there's our AC area right there Otherwise it'd be too much noise too much noise in the video and I don't want to screw up the audio quality for you guys Sorry So yeah, so let's let's get in this July one and the theme is kuma moto which has a cool little cute panda and And Let me see I'm not gonna read all the little like text in the beginning So if you want to pause on that and read it feel free to do so I will do the reading of the information on the snacks as I do the snacks. There's some good-looking stuff I'll let you know if it's part of the themed portion of the of the box Or if it's one of the popular snacks that are listed on the side here So and then I'll show you this afterwards. All right, let's open this up Love me some snack you I think was it the last box or the box before that it was like one of the best I thought that I've gotten This is what it looks like in there some good-looking things So let me get into it. Oh I need to grab my water real quick Because I definitely need to take drinks of water. I Had just recorded a video prior to this so my throat's already a little Parched okay, here we go grabbing this one premium sweets This one nothing on the back really this would be one of the kumamon premium assortment Snacks it looks like there's three different types you can have kuma moto exclusive cookies There are three types of cookies sweet cheese butter Okay, milk chocolate crunch and pastry puff chocolate sandwich Which one is your favorite? So I think this is the milk chocolate crunch This looks like it's probably gonna be more like straight up. It basically looks like like Chocolate and rice crispies and a bar kind of so I'm not gonna try that one This one must be the cheese one Yeah, the the sweet cheese butter I feel like I should do this one because it's more weird Interesting. Where's the other one? Oh, and then this one this one is the Pace pastry puff chocolate sandwich, which this one looks like it's probably amazing I had something we had something kind of like this in a recent snack box So go back and check those because it's basically like pieces of pie crust that are like Sugared have like large granules of sugar on it with chocolate in the middle and I guarantee this tastes awesome I bet this one tastes pretty good. Don't know about this one So we're gonna go ahead and do this one because it's the most interesting and that's what I want people to see in these videos Is the stuff that's most interesting. So yes, once again sweet cheese butter Let's uh, yeah Little worried to see how this one is. Oh, it's actually more It's it's not as soft. I figured it would be like kind of soft And it's more hard. You know if I start putting some pressure on it's giving It looks like the bottom's like nicely browned there. Yeah It smells like cheese. There's like a little bit of that funky cheese Note in the nose. Yeah, you can smell the cheese. It smells like like a cheese bar cookie I don't really smell that sweet because all that cheese It's very cakey. It's kind of like A really soft, um, like butter cookie It's very buttery and you do have that kind of like savory cheese flavor tail And it's a little bit salty as well Which I'm down with You know Hearing what this is the description of it Well, the name is basically the description of it I was very apprehensive, but It's pretty good. It's not super sweet. It's more of like Kind of a savory cookie I'm I kind of like it. It's good It's not amazing or anything. I wouldn't like go out of my way to be like, oh my god. I need more of those but For being in this box. I'm happy it's there because it's interesting And it tastes good and if someone gave me more in the future like in the you know another snacku I'd be like, okay, sounds good What is this one? I think I'm gonna have to open this first to figure out what it is Oh, I think it's one of these. Okay. I think I might okay. I'll show you the the packaging first Okay Very cute packaging Cool cute cool. It looks good. It's pretty. Okay. It is this so this is one of Okay, so there's two of these things that look kind of similar on here So I'm gonna have to figure out which one this is This must be okay. This is the shiwase mayu Take a look. It's it's like purple And just like brown around the edges. It looks like it's like crispy rice krispies in the purple cream there What is this? another award-winning snack made by kumamoto jin sion Local purple ube potato puree is whipped together with organic chocolate and sandwiched in a delicately baked butter cookie This is one of our all-time favorite snacks. Okay It smells pretty sweet actually Doesn't smell like potato really it smells like sweet buttery There's a little bit of like a sweet floral note, which is interesting. Hmm. Hmm Yeah, there are like, um Like little rice krispies in there because there's a bit of a crunch It's not cream in the middle like it is nice and buttery But I do get that potato knowing that it's in there It like makes it more like starchy and a little bit of like a potato flavor But there's a nice sugary sweetness to it too, but it's not over the top And I really like the crunch that there's krispies in there giving it because it adds nice texture I'm a big person on texture, especially when I'm having snacks. I really like crunchy um, yeah And there's like butter wafer cookies on the outside Tastes exactly like that. You know like butter wafer cookies And I'm trying to figure out If somebody gave this to you and didn't tell you that there's potato in it Yeah, I don't think you'd know Because of the level of sweetness and the butteryness coming together It kind of masks a lot of the potato unless you know, it's there and you can kind of look for it. So I like that I I could see I mean, I I could see why they'd say it's their favorite, but I've had many snacks from snaku. That's they're a lot better But it is good. I'm excited for my wife to try that. She'll like that Yeah, man That's good. Okay, so let's jump over to another thing that looks like it's crispy Oh, there's the texture of that one. Okay, so this is from the popular snacks The other two were from the actual like featured theme ones So this is black puffed rice Yep, looks like chocolate puff rice baked organic japanese rice puffs glazed with dark soy sauce and black sesame paste Isn't that crazy? It looks like chocolate. It looks like it would be chocolate, but it's not Sorry if it's very noisy I just don't want to be getting stuff all over the floor Because I'm just doing it in my basement. Yeah, look at that. Oh, you can smell the soy It's like that immediate tang a little bit sweet real tangy Slightly salty Not good It's not crazy on the soy though. So if you're not like big with soy sauce flavors Like there's it's there, but it's not like super tangy or in your face Which I assume part of that's because of the sesame kind of like downplaying that tanginess Yeah, this is good for for a savory snack And there's a little bit of a saltiness It kind of like grows as you continue eating it, which I like like a nice salty quality with my savory snacks I like that. That's good Okay Next let's go with another one that is Off the popular snacks portion. This is heavy star ramen There's an actual ramen. Let's find out. Look at this You see that? But boom What is it? Dried ramen noodle crisps flavored with Japanese miso Okay Pretty concise to the point I'm always I always worry when I'm opening bags like this from the top because I mean, obviously that's a preferable way Preferable way to open them But sometimes they're like really tough to get and then when you're really going at it You can just like rip it because it reaches that breaking point And then you're still exerting too much force and it's just like So I always worry about that Anyway Actually, am I able to show you inside there? Kind of without dumping them everywhere. There you go. There you go You can see it. Look at them all in there. They look overexposed because of the lighting. So sorry, but Look basically Yeah, it's just like ramen noodles Oh You can smell the miso, but it's interesting because it it almost smells like beer It totally kind of smells like beer. It's really weird Obviously, it's crunchy. You can definitely taste the miso. It's very miso driven This is a fun snack to be honest I mean It's mainly just like a like a like a miso flavor With like a starchy noodle flavor coming in after the miso And it's crunchy like there's not a ton of flavor to it. It's just like Miso starchy noodle crunchy So it's kind of more of like a Munch on this maybe after you've had some beers to be honest Um, and just enjoy like the texture of it I can see like you'd eat them kind of fast to be honest just because they they go down kind of quick. They're not like super flavorful Those are okay. Not my favorite. They're all right. I don't think I need them in the future You know What is this? Oh that I'm gonna I'm gonna save that for last because that let me get this Yeah, I'm gonna like to calm down a little bit. What the hell's going on? Okay, so that one thing I'm very interested in that it's it's very interesting So we'll save that for last What is this this would be? I don't know I'm gonna have to open it. I think it's xion We'll only find out and if it is the xion then it is part of the theme For this I don't know. That's the problem with using just like a camera on your laptop I'm not high class here I'm not spending a lot of money on this because I don't make money on it. It's just a hobby Anyway, oh, yeah, okay So I've had something kind of like this before it's kind of like a little bit like a like a cake bar And the last time I had this was like a brownie with dehydrated Um strawberries in it. It was amazing. So this one I should read. Let me show you it first There's some purple in there. This looks like cake with like a purple filling But it's got that purple potato An exclusive snack from kumamoto jin xion Which has been making delicious word-winning snacks for 10 years The light deliciously baked bite-sized cheesecake Oh, okay Is made with local kumamoto kumamo To kumamo to kumamoto They cut the word up weird in there formatting Made with local kumamoto rice and purple ube potato picked by local co-op farmers in the region A perfect snack to go with a cup of tea or coffee Oh, it smells cheesy just like the um that sweet cheese butter bar It smells cheesy. It's weird Yeah I can smell actually a little bit of the potato, which is weird Doesn't smell sweet at all Tastes a lot of potato To be honest There's a little bit of a sweetness in there And it does taste kind of cheesy, but it's very much potato oriented It's very soft my cheese cut right through it. No effort whatsoever It's very very soft. I really like that And one of the big reasons for that Like we don't do this in the united states and I I don't know if it's because people are just like Think people are too dumb and they just eat it But they have like these little like silica gel silica packets in there to absorb absorb moisture So to keep it from getting like too moist in there Um, so you can keep these things actually naturally moist so Well, you know it works obviously because that's very moist plus I said it's been sitting for a little bit, but um That's not very sweet It's not very snack-like in my opinion like the the cheese portion with the potato is a little bit Not what my palate wants, but it's not bad either. So You know, I like how soft it is like the softness of it is Pretty impressive Okay, moving on Okay, let's go to one of the popular snacks On the sidebar This is Genji pie Delicately baked folded pastry puff snack topped with granulated sugar Looks like like elephant ears. Is that what people call them in the united states? like that type of like texturing And pastry it's like an elephant ear. Am I right about that? Put a comment down there. Let me know. Am I right? Okay, so there's kind of broken That's fine. I'll just show you a piece of it up close. There you go See Nicely brown smells very sweet buttery Yeah Hmm Hmm I like the texture on this Oh, it's really buttery There's like a nice sweetness, but that gives way to the butteriness them And it's a tad bit salty Which I do like in this in this flavor profile, but like these like layers Are very Like nice flaky pastry I love that type of Texture I love this type of flavor. It's like a nice buttery pastry Are really nice So it's a bit crunchy But it's also very soft and easy to chew I love it That's really good. That's a really nice pastry And it's not super sweet either is there's just like a little bit of a sweet sugary coating on the outside But it's mainly like focused on the buttery pastry flavor And that's nice. That is very nice. I like that Uh, I'm gonna say yeah, it's my favorite in this box thus far Mm. I like that. I love it Okay, next let's go with another. Oh, I don't think I'm gonna like this. Well, we'll see These look interesting Bourbon poochie eebie poochie eebie, whatever Bourbon, I don't know. I don't think it's actual bourbon. See the prawn on there Shrimp prawn I don't know shrimp things. Yeah, okay. Let me come on. There we go. Soft or light. Thank you Send by rice cracker made with grilled baby shrimp caught off the sea of Japan The packaging is weird because it's kind of like this sleeve I'm gonna go to get this open. I don't even know My hands a little There we go. Helping my keep Okay, no, I'm not gonna open this all the way but oh my gosh, there's a lot in here So if you see how it's kind of stacked in here and the length of it There's a lot of these in there, but they're like small. They're like real small little crisp discs There you can kind of see what that Yeah, show you the other side see And that smells like shrimp and salty. It's like salty shrimp Very nice crunch the crunch is great. So the the shrimp flavor is actually not as Fishy as it usually is in these types of things is it's more dialed back and has a really nice saltiness to it I'm actually good with these. I kind of like it This is another thing that I think would be good after beer Which I think I'm gonna have a beer to tonight. So I'm gonna keep these available to munch on Probably mainly after the beer Okay That's actually pretty good. I kind of like that. I'm very very iffy with um the shrimp flavoring but With this one Hey, good job because it's not too over the top. Like I said, not too fishy I really try to get that flavor out of my mouth for the next thing All right, moving on. Where we going here? What we got? What is this one? Heavy or no, we did the this must be oh the geca no Kumamoto jewel Sorry I probably just slaughtered that It's a terrible job with it. It's like one of these little like cakes filled with stuff These snacks are only available at the Kumamoto castle. Let me have a castle. I didn't know about that. Come on Um, they are made they are made to symbolize the full moon that rises and casts a soft yellow hue over the castle These baked manju are filled with a sweet chestnut bean paste and baked in a low heat clay oven Come on, man. What is wrong? Keep it soft Anyway, sorry So I don't think I'm really gonna like this most likely. I've had Jesus, I'm gonna be able to even get it open Teeth again Oh, there we go Got got it at the right angle Uh, so I don't think I say I don't think I'm really gonna like it because I've had the chestnut paste and stuff before And I don't I don't like it. I'm more of a red bean paste kind of guy with things like this So, yeah, it looks like kind of like one of their little pancake things I mean, it's soft on the outside And it just smells sweet. I'm like ready. There's just a really grainy mealy texture to it That i'm not digging so much You can see a chestnut paste there Yeah, so the texture is weird because it's like very bean-like, you know, it's like grainy beanie texture We get a lot of beans in your mouth I don't like that texture It's sweet It tastes a tad bit vanilla-y I get the chestnut flavor It's actually okay for as far as like How I feel about these chestnut paste flavors It's on the better side of what I've experienced. So it's decent. It's not for me though. I'm not like huge on it. So Pretty sweet though as you continue to eat it just kind of becomes like more and more sweet Okay, second the last item. This is gigantic. What the hell? Taco octopus senpai Look at this octopus there. Yeah octopus is a thing At some point I'd love to be able to try some takoyaki Which if people don't know what that is, it's basically like a like a pan case pancake batter that has octopus in it that is then um Like done in these little In these little like cups so that they make them into balls And then they put some sort of like sauce on top. Okay. Well, these are individually wrapped within So that makes it easier. So I have to go These smell fishy. I mean it's from the ocean. So, you know, it's gonna happen It's octopus. I guarantee when I show these to my wife. She's gonna be like no, thanks I'm still gonna make her try it at least like one bite. That's kind of the rule It's like you have to at least try it make sure you don't like it Oh, it smells pretty fishy though. Check that out. It's pretty thin It smells fishy a little bit salty. That's about it. It's harder than I thought it would be Hmm, so it's it is fishy and more fishy than I typically like But the flavor is also kind of like a soft seafood at a frame time kind of weird There's a slight sweetness on it with a decent amount of saltiness It's okay. I mean, I'm not I'm not wild about it, but I don't dislike it either So that's a plus I don't know What's not gonna like it Should be like too fishy. I just smell it immediately and just be like I believe we're going to the come on going to the last thing Yeah This is gonna be interesting. This is the final thing and this is not from the those last two were from like the theme These are not these are Black sesame caramel interesting Black sesame caramel Very interested there we go A super unique caramel made with black charcoal And black sesame don't be alarmed if your mouth turns black. It's completely normal and safe Do it Is it natural if I feel less comfortable after reading that like when you give a warning like that It's kind of like making me suspicious. Oh man, this might be like really hard on my teeth I don't know as you get older people You gotta be more careful with your teeth. I'm just saying. Yeah, it's like Yeah, it looks like just a black caramel It smells Sweet kind of like milk milky And sweet is what it smells like very chewy It's black like there's nothing else on the inside Huh It kind of tastes like peanut butter It's like caramel and peanut butter is what it tastes like to me. Okay Hmm That's weird I would not expect it to be like that Okay, there we go On my second bite It's starting to taste what I was thinking is tasting like peanut butter. It's starting to taste more like Sesame Yeah, so a few bites or maybe like a whole eat a whole one of those at one time They're gonna taste more sesame than peanut butter But it still has this kind of weird peanut butter note And when I say weird, it's not that I dislike it. I love peanut butter So I like it. I think that tastes very good. I really like that And it looks cool It's like a fun thing But Like caramel is very chewy very sticky Let's see if my mouth is black at all Uh-huh Black tongue That's fun Okay, cool. Uh, so overall with this box, um Yeah, once again At the least with this box. It's always fun. It's always interesting if you like trying new things So let me go ahead and give you the rundown real quick. These are all the ones that were the themed items go ahead and pause and read those if you want And then on the side are the ones from the popular portion that are not part of the theme Same thing pause when you want to read those things. Okay. So what were my favorites? Hmm the black sesame caramel Definitely one of my favorites the genji pie. Definitely one of my favorites Those are my top two for sure. Um, the kum, uh kumamon premium assortment here I have a feeling that the this one right here the like puff pastry Like the pie crust with the chocolate in between that that's going to be amazing And the shiobase mayu The this purple one that was quite good, but my favorite favorite favorite I'd say my number one the genji pie and then that black sesame caramel but pretty close between those two But anyway another successful, uh snaku. Thank you so much for checking this video out Um Check out snaku if you want to they don't you know, I don't get their stuff for free. 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