Several months ago, Borders sold some Asian snacks as part of a limited promotion. They had two kinds of Pocky: chocolate, which was delicious and sold out quickly, and strawberry cream, which no one wanted. They also had two different brands of milk chocolate-filled biscuits, Hello Panda & Lotte Kancho:
Hello Panda is a Japanese brand produced by Meiji Seika. I bought the kind with choco cream filling; they also make other varieties like peanut butter or vanilla cream. The cookies are the size of quarters & come in round and panda-head shapes. I found them overly sweet, with too much vanilla in the chocolate, but then I'm a dark chocolate eater. If you want to try some for yourself, many online vendors sell boxes, including Amazon
Lotte Kancho, on the other hand, is Korean & produced by the Lotte Group. I preferred this brand, because the cookie wasn't sweet & the filling lacked the vanilla aftertaste. Amusingly, "Kancho" is the Japanese word for "enema" and slang for a practical joke where the pranker places his index fingers together and then tries to forcefully insert them into the victim's anus. I'm not sure why it's also the name of chocolate product, but maybe there's some translation trickery going on here?
