One of my guilty pleasures will have to be something I started enjoying while in Japan. My first taste of Shiroi Koibito (White Sweetheart) was probably a souvenir from a friend who traveled to Hokkaido in northern Japan. These where white chocolate sandwiched by a couple of biscuits (butter cookies to others). Later, I discovered they also had the more typical chocolate instead of the white that defined the "White" part of the name of this product.
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| The packaging is practically the same as I remember from over 25 years ago when I first tasted this treat. I placed a pen beside the box as reference to its size. |
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| Details on the chocolate at the back of the package. Since this was sold in Bangkok, Thailand, there is already an English translation. I thought perhaps there is none in the ones sold in Japan. |
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| Unwrapping the box shows a more familiar design. |
Whenever I go to Japan, Singapore or Bangkok, I try to get a box of these to take home. There are Tokyu stores in Bangkok and Takashimaya in Singapore where I can get Shiroi Koibito. So far, I have not found a store that sells this in the Philippines.
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