 Thanks for checking out this unboxing video. This is the unboxing for February Snaku, yes, I'm sure you knew that from the title, but bears reiterating just for fun Yeah, this is a February Snaku if anyone's been watching this long enough You know that I was doing these unboxings for Snaku at this time last year And I was only doing the tasting size boxes, which are way smaller. It's just like a few items And actually comes from New York versus this one, which is much more items And more of the items and it comes directly from Japan So the one last year in February was themed around Valentine's Day because I guess it is celebrated out there in Japan and one of the things they talk about is the fact that men get Candy and food items from women typically in Japan. So I found that interesting I don't know if that'll be stated in the card on here or not, but another thing is there's a huge Focus on strawberry things, which is really cool because I really dig strawberries. So this could be a really good box but we'll see open it up Here is the artwork and I'll just scroll through the items if you want to pause and read each one There you go. Okay. I'll show you what's in here and then I'll read this real quick Look look at all the goodies. Look at that Looks good All right, so happy Valentine's Day Did you know that during the holiday in Japan women must give chocolates to all the men they admire? There it is. There are two types of chocolates women give to men Geary Choco and Honmae Choco Geary Choco girl mean oh, I'm sorry. Geary means obligation Are chocolates a woman gives to her friends colleagues bosses and close male friends Honmae Choco is given to her boyfriend or husband Japanese women often prepare honmae Choco by them by themselves as many believe store-bought chocolates do not adequately Express their true love. I'm assuming they could buy the Geary Choco No problem Chocolate isn't the only food that's popular in February. It's also strawberry season in Japan So we've included a bunch of strawberry snacks, too. Awesome Totally down. So the first item I'm gonna do This was in I think it was the exact same February box last time but like I said, I was doing the tasting box So I'll do it again since it's been a year, but typically if it was like just a few months ago I wouldn't eat it right now. So this is the Chocolate Arar or Arari From a rice cracker store in Kyoto comes a snack 10 years in the making these chocolate covered mini rice crackers Have even been featured on TV in Japan. They come in two pouches bitter and sweet the bitter pouch includes matcha green tea Dark chocolate and white chocolate covered crackers. The sweet pouch contains strawberry milk chocolate and white chocolate covered crackers Well, let me figure out which one I don't want. So this is the one with the matcha in it I'm not big on matcha. So I'm gonna do the sweet one Which has the strawberry in there plus, you know, it's about the strawberry So here's one. I assume this is a white chocolate Smells like white chocolate. It's like white chocolate to me has like a waxy Consistency but also has a little bit of like a waxy smell, which is weird So what I like about this is you get like a chocolate flavor But you also get like a really nice crunch if you've been watching this long enough, you know that I am big on crunch I like texture with my snacks and crunchy things. I like a lot That's why I like senpai. So these little rice crackers, these little senpai covered in chocolate. Pretty awesome So this is a strawberry one, which I assume is actually White chocolate with strawberry added to it. Yeah, I mean it tastes like white chocolate And then the strawberry comes in after But the thing that's really nice Is that the rice cracker in there is giving a little bit of a saltiness a Little bit of like a soy sauce note, which complements the sweet really well I really like sweet and savory together. So it's really nice And then there's just a straight chocolate one in there, which you know, we know what that's going to taste like So really good. I like those got my water over there. Sorry every time I pick up my water and set it down I think it shakes the camera a little bit. So I do apologize for that All right next let's do this one. This is Oh a senpai. Okay, I just kind of randomly picked it a limited series It's heart senpai a limited series rice cracker in the shape of a heart to share with your loved ones Oh Oh, yeah, I should use packaging There you go. I mean, it's looks kind of like generic ish packaging. So we're like anything written on it. So Oh my it is heart senpai As you can see It's not super thick. I mean sometimes senpai done like this just kind of looks like a rice cracker Yeah It's a little fishy Smells fishy. It tastes a little bit fishy But the good thing though is The fishiness is up front and it kind of goes away real quick because you get a lot of saltiness to it As you can hear it have a lot of crunch which I enjoy I'm gonna stress that later. I like it. I do Get this fishiness off here. It kind of I don't know reminds me a little bit of like Shrimp crackers. Have you ever had like shrimp? Shrimp crackers are also like shrimp toast Kind of reminds me of that especially with the crunch Because it tastes like it's not like fishy like fish fish. It's like fishy like shrimp That's decent It's not my favorite, but it's all right Okay, next once again, I'm just randomly grabbing these. What is this one? Okay. I think this is Is this the brownie? Yeah, I think so. So I believe this is a strawberry brownie Yes, chocolate brownie. Yeah Wait a minute chocolate brownie They both say chocolate brownie, but it's supposed to be strawberry brownie I don't know. We'll find out Maybe it says that on there and I just can't read it. There you go Strawberry brownie from fubion Comes a brand new snack a delicious walnut brownie with bits of freeze-dried strawberries Huh? Since these sell out quick we had to work with fubion for over six months to make sure we could get them for you Wow so kind of like I guess you can't say like exclusive, but it makes you feel that way. So Kind of rare. That's cool, man And it just it kind of like shows the work that's being put in here Um by um shigeki at uh snaku Man, this is really It looks really good. It's really soft. I mean it's a brownie. You can see I don't know if you can like I can let me see if I can Because you can kind of see can you see right there like the difference in color? Like you can see where the strawberry portion is See what I mean? It smells like chocolate with a faint fruitiness I don't know if I'd be able to pick out strawberry on the smell It's really soft That's really soft So the chocolate which I appreciate is not crazy sweet. It's very very cakey. It's very moist light Tastes like like chocolate, but it's not like super sugary. You can tell that it's kind of like sugar reduced Although maybe it's not sugar reduced and it's just that the strawberry when it kicks in there is kind of lessening Your perception of the sugar That's really good. I like it. Yeah You can definitely taste the strawberry. The strawberry is not super aggressive though It's kind of just like a light note that comes in at the end of each of each bite. I like it. That's yeah That's a good one. Hmm. Definitely have to cleanse my palate after that chocolate You know All right, this one Actually, I might not do that one because I'm not gonna be sure What it is Okay, so here's one This is the mentai umaibo One of japan's favorite puff corn snacks. This one tastes like spicy cod roe called mentaiko Okay, so this one This one could be rough I hope not, but this one could be rough I'm sorry if you hear my hVAC system in the background Running it should be kind of like low because I've changed the setting when I do these videos Okay, this is very funky looking. It looks like the fattest No, it looks got a hole in the middle It looks like the fattest cheeto I've ever seen. It's like a cheeto cigar Doesn't smell fishy It just smells a little spicy like kind of cayenne pepper and then salty paprika actually There's a lot of paprika flavor in there Yeah It's kind of like I don't know like it's definitely it's like a corn snack. So it definitely tastes like corn It's just like a corn cheeto with a lot of paprika flavor It's not fishy. I don't I don't understand the cod roe And there's like a little bit of like a cayenne pepper flavor after all the paprika But there's a lot of paprika in that to be honest which I don't really like this all that much because I'm not big on paprika If you really like the spice paprika, then that's for you. You would love that If you don't honestly if you don't think about the flavor too much You could kind of view it as like a very tone down version of like a barbecue Because sometimes paprika is used for that Cleanse my mouth on that one. Okay next Do this one. I think this is Strawberry carara, but I'm gonna have to take it out of the package before I know for sure So there's package Sorry if I'm sniffling like The weather's been changing a lot and it just makes me like Makes my science is good nuts So I get a lot of head leakage Yeah, that sounds great, right Okay, yeah, so this is a strawberry carara Oh, man, it's broken a little bit. That's fine All right bound to happen strawberry carara You can see where it broke there, but So it is delicate butter cookie sandwich from a famous shop called fubion. I don't know where the other one was from In Kyushu is southern island in japan The cookies are filled with a luxurious mix of cocoa whipped cream and freeze dried strawberries It smells that sounds really good It smells like So much strawberry It smells buttery Sugary buttery strawberries is what it smells like okay So the freeze dried strawberries add a little bit of a crunch But it's almost a little bit of like a styrofoam type crunch to it. So it's a little weird for me I'm the type of person who doesn't really like Like the marshmallows and lucky charms like that texture when I chew it It's kind of like nails on a chalkboard. This is more toned down than that, but there's a little bit of that there A lot of strawberry in the flavor It tastes good. I mean it's it is very buttery creamy sugary And tons of strawberry tons and tons of strawberry because those freeze dried strawberries in there This is a winner This is a good one and I like it specifically because It's not common. This is not something I'm Well, maybe not something I'll ever have again. So It's cool to have I like that Hmm when this dog is yelling let's save that because I don't know what that is Let me deal with this. What is this? Six pieces of Random thing. Okay. Kanako mochi cake It'll be a first for this. Many Japanese mochi pound cake Covered in a savory yet sweet roasted kanako soy powder a taste of rural japan and every bite interesting So don't really know anything about this so much. Yeah, I mean it does look like a pound cake on there If you can see whoop six pieces this is large hopefully I like it because then It won't sit around for too long. Oh, they're like these little Like super little baby pieces Okay, that's totally manageable. Let me get this out of here without Destroying the whole packaging. Okay. So yeah, so it's like this little pound cake This is a little baby pound cake there you go it's It smells almond Like vegetables and almond kind of mixed That must be that soy Yeah, the soy powder This is weird. I don't know kind of weird Consistency is good It tastes a little prefab, you know, like kind of chemically So i'm not A big fan of that. I see where the soy is coming into play But I don't feel like it really fits so much. There's a little bit of like a molasses flavor to it, too I don't know. It's kind of chemically though I don't really like that Yeah, definitely get the soy more And for me sometimes like Soy starts to taste tad bit corn-like at times and that's kind of doing that I don't like that one I don't think my wife's gonna like it either Unfortunately, okay, let's go to this This is something that we've had before in a box. Uh, we had a different type So I'll do this but I'm excited because I did like it before. This is uh, emo kimpie I like potato sticks basically You might want to see all that Yeah, so emo kimpie, uh, a traditional brown sugar glazed baked sweet potato snack from japan Goes perfect with a nice cup of green tea Of course I don't have any green tea. I have like flavored green teas, but you know like straight green tea Okay, so brown sugar sweet potato I'm not I'm also Sorry, I'm also not big on sweet potatoes, but sometimes Okay, they look like real shiny like makes you think they're gonna be greasy I mean, they've definitely been fried. You can tell that They smell super fried they're like Really hard Okay, so they're like crunchy, but they're like soggy crunchy You know, I mean like if something's been fried a lot and then it just sits and cools down You know, I mean like it's kind of crunchy, but it's not it's kind of soggy at the same time weird Definitely got a lot of brown sugar Which for people who like sweet potatoes, I think you'd really like this because Brown sugar goes really well with sweet potatoes. I know a lot of people feel that way I think my wife is gonna love these There's a little bit saltiness to it that comes in in the end That kind of increases its flavor for me Something I actually kind of like in there So it's I'm not huge on it just because I don't really like sweet potatoes But if you are into sweet potatoes, I think you really would like this And if I can I'm not into sweet potatoes, and I kind of like it That's pretty good so all right The brown sugar is nice And that saltiness at the end Okay, just have I think three more items left always save the hard candy stuff to the end Okay, this one could be a real mess Let's give this a shot strawberry or um caramel strawberry bomb yeah, um I'm not familiar with that, but There you go So it's like a kind of looks like another like pound cakey type thing Bumkuchen are layered roll cakes, which originated in Germany, but became extremely Extremely popular in Japan after it was introduced to Japan in 1919 During a confectionery trade show. That's interesting. These particular bumkuchen Are seasonal to this time of year and made with local Japanese strawberries from Kyushu Once again the strawberry theme I'm I'm in I'm so down with that And they always have like these packets these like silica packets to keep moisture down and to keep Well to keep it from sweating, but also to keep it moist So as you can see It's just like a I mean it's a ring you can see you can see the layers in there It talks about like many layers. You can see all the layers. I'm sorry. I like overexposed it. You can see the layers Which I think is cool. I can just pull it out like this More brown on that side Smells like so much strawberry. It just smells like a really nice Strawberry cake and it feels really soft Yeah Yep Yeah, it's just like a nice It's I was gonna say light, but it's actually a little more dense than that. It's kind of like a medium density cake So it's like a medium dense Sweet strawberry cake Mmm. That's really good I like it And I think my wife's gonna like it too. Thankfully we have two of them So she can eat the other half of that I didn't quite eat half at the moment. So I'll finish my half off Video And then she can have the other half and then we'll probably just split the other one too So Nice. I like it. Okay. So moving on Then this much mean that these are the tokyo rusk pieces And this kind of sucks because it's only two of them and they look really small. I'm sorry I have the water in for some reason sinuses blame it all on sinuses Okay, so tokyo rusk piece. I really like rusk. I was introduced to it through this box And they've had a few rusks in there. I think this is the third. This will be like the third rusk I've had from them And I like the other two quite a bit So it's kind of sad that like they're really small pieces. There's a strawberry and a chocolate As you can see um I guess I'll just eat this chocolate now because my wife can have No, I'll save the chocolate because that's more of like a generic-ish type thing And I'll try the strawberry for the video because I don't make more sense Hopefully I can now I'm not gonna be able to save half. Sorry Rebecca in advance So it basically just looks like A crouton It's like a pink pinkish brownish crouton That's what it looks like It smells sweet sugary strawberry So it smells like I didn't read what it was I'm gonna do that right now But before I do it is Very kind of like buttery Tastes like you know, it's white chocolate until then it's like dipped in white chocolate with strawberry in there That's got a decent crunch to it So the tokyo rusk piece a bite-sized double baked baguettes soaked in chocolate Or strawberry cream It's super light fluffy and crunchy all at the same time Yeah, I agree with that It's good. It makes me really excited for the chocolate one. Although actually Since I hate the strawberry one. I guess my wife should get the chocolate one Yeah, we'll see about that Maybe maybe Okay, and then the last item Which is So there's always like a hard candy or like soft hard candy thing in there So this time around It's strawberry milk candy. So this is another thing that's been in the in the box before milk candies I think two other times as well just like the rusk and that's when I was first introduced to them And I was like at first I was like that sounds kind of weird But I actually like them they they come off a little caramel like Okay, as you can see there's some strawberry and there's some just straight up milk flavored So it says a colorful combination of strawberry and creamy milk candy from a candy shop in Kyoto Not a whole lot of description to that. That's what it is All right, so I'll do one of the strawberry ones obviously Because that's the theme we're sticking with So it just kind of looks like a hard candy very shiny very pink because of the strawberry smells like sweet strawberry so With the milk candies the the straight up milk ones are very like Creamy and very milky and a little bit caramel-y This one because of the strawberry actually has a slightly tart zing up front from the strawberry flavor Which I enjoy The candy is very hard too Some of these milk candies are sometimes like a little bit soft so you can chew them. They're almost like a taffy Uh, this one is not Yeah, this one's not I just try to apply pressure with my teeth. Hmm. It is good though Okay, I like that. I'm gonna set it aside. So I'm not just you know Sucking on that candy while I'm trying to do a video because it's a little rude Okay, so to recap What did I really like out of this? Uh, the chocolate aurorae those little um, rice crackers covered in chocolate. Those are really nice I like those as a nice snack. There's strawberry currara. Well, these were the chocolate aurorae The strawberry aurora or aurorae Which was like that, you know the the butter cookies These strawberry butter cookies with like the cream Strawberry cream filling those were really nice. That's strawberry brownie these things Uh, yeah, those were really good really really really good. I also like the caramel strawberry bomb That one that one was tasty too um And honestly I think that's that that's it for like my highlights with it I think all the things on the side that are not part of like the real theme but are like extras all of those things Were okay But I wasn't huge on like I could have been much happier if all those things were left out And they would just put more of the main things in But I do really think it's cool that with the strawberry brownie shigeki was actually able to Work with the maker fubion to get them to secure some for these boxes up front because they are so popular I think that's really awesome. So Okay, uh overall a good box not my favorite box. I think the box last month was my favorite box still I think that's what I said last month. People can go back and check me. Anyway, um, I do appreciate Whoever's watching this watching this. Uh, that's awesome. 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