Ishiya Shiroi Koibito

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.

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.

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.

Unwrapping the box shows a more familiar design.

Opening the box reveals 24 pieces of dark and white chocolate varieties of this favorite of mine. There is also a picture of what the biscuit looks like.

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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