Shopping for junk food is always a fun activity when traveling abroad. During my recent trip, I was in such a hurry going from place to place that I really didn't have much time to shop for clothes and shoes. However, I couldnt' possibly let all these precious empty spaces in my suitcase go to waste. As a result, my brilliant plan of filling up my suitcase with junk food was hatched.
My all-time favourite chocolate bar is Jacob Chocolate Orange Biscuits. Unfortunatey, I just couldn't find them anywhere during my brief 24hr stint in London. My original plan was to get at least a dozen of these. Luckily, in their absence, I had lots of room for goodies from Marks & Spencer. Here is a run down of what I ended up getting:
- Nestle BreakAway: this chocolate bar is remarkably similar to Jacob except that it doesn't have the orangey flavour. It is really tasty.
- Marks & Spencer Dark Chocolate Ginger Biscuits: a little light on the ginger flavour but definitely loads of dark chocolate. Not bad at all.
- Marks & Spencer Extremely Chocolatey Orange Biscuits: I was hoping for extremely orangey but instead I got extremely chocolatey. Each piece of biscuit is thickly coated with milk chocolate. My friends like it a lot but I'm diappointed.
- Marks & Spencer Chocolate Refrigerator Cakes: dark rich Belgium chocolate with digestive biscuit pieces, sultanas, and golden syrup. I have yet to try them.
- Marks & Spencer All Butter Flapjack Squares: chewy all butter flapjacks made with oats and golden syrup. I have yet to try them.
- Marks & Spencer Mini Cake: luxury mini fruit cake topped with marzipan, soft icing, and a silver bauble. At first I was going to get one of those mini round birthdays that look so....shelf-stable. However, seeing how bulky they are, I decided to get a petit-four size mini cake instead. I wonder how it tastes?
- Yauatcha Dark Chocolate with Sesame
- Yauatcha White Chocolate with Black Sesame
- Yauatcha Assorted Macarons: the kumquat flavour is the best. Most of the flavours were very bland and too heavy. It centainly doesn't measure up to my favourite macarons from Laduree or Mulot at all but thumbs up for their flavour combinations.
- Minamoto Kitchoan Spring Wagashi: it's a little strange to admit that I shopped at the London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Hawaii, and New York locations of Minamoto. I always love sakura flavour wagashi and of course spring time is sakura time! I bought a few sakura gelee as well as a strawberry gelee wagashi.
- Konditor & Cook Fruitcake: One of my guilty pleasures is high-quality fruitcake. I just love the rum/brandy-soaked raisins and nuts. The version by Konditor & Cook is delicious without being too rich. The proportion of cake to fruit is just right.
- Konditor & Cook Magic Cake: Such adorable petit fours! The cake base was a very moist citrus-flavour butter cake. I expected this cake to be all looks and no flavour but I was pleasantly surprised to bite into a deliciously well-made cake.
