Chocolate

Some weeks earlier, I visited an ice-cream parlour at the Yorkdale mall where I ordered a matcha ice-cream and it was obvious that they had topped the generous scoop of cream with a ‘finger’ of greenish KitKat, the world’s most popular chocolate bar. I could easily reckon it was a matcha flavoured bar! KitKats are fun and I mostly carry one during my walks for instant energy to continue with my workout. Their smaller size also makes them a perfect guilt-free snack but provided you are actively exercising. Although chocolate is the most common flavour available I have relished other varieties too, such as orange. Most recently, Nestlé also introduced the four-fingered ruby chocolate with cocoa beans in the UK. So, continuing with my appetite for discovering new tastes, when I stumbled on a new KitKat flavour I had to buy it. I searched everywhere, on Amazon and the aisles at Walmart, but couldn’t find a trace of it, so I wondered maybe the vendors were importing it from elsewhere. Until finally, at my regular grocery shopping spree, I found a Japanese version of this flavour at a local Chinese supermarket. A short online research threw up the name as “Nestle KitKat Mini “OTONA-NO-AMASA” and a website which says it’s flavoured “by kneading “Uji Gyokuro Tea Leaves” into the Uji Matcha (green tea) flavoured dough, a fragrant Uji Matcha aroma and taste is brought out.” I am considering myself fortunate to relish this KitKat which is a “limited regional product” right here in Toronto. Ah, the times we live in!