Sweet Spots

Big. News.  KitKats have mostly disappeared.  Ten years ago, every candy aisle in the country had at least three or four flavors of KitKats.  Wasabe, red bean, green tea, white chocolate, the list goes on.  Now... there are no more KitKats.   In Kyoto we saw a handful in the tourist areas... but mostly gone. I just saw some green tea at the grocery store yesterday and some fruit/white chocolate, but they are really not as everywhere as they were.  #Sad.

Nonetheless, we have survived and managed to find other Japanese sweets to satisfy the crazy sweet tooth you get when walking 11-20,000 steps every day.

People eat CRAZY amounts of carbs and sugar here. I have no idea why they are all so thin.  I do have some idea why many have terrible teeth.  Ours would fall out if we lived here.

Rafi's breakfast

The ubiquitous vending machines of tooth rot.  The boys BEG and PLEAD for Yen every time we walk by one... which is every 5 feet.

Rafi cuteness.

The best thing ever... soft ice made of grape juice in a plastic jar you can just eat when it is 900 degrees out.

Turns out the panda bear is not candy, but tinySlim Jims. Ick.  Everything else, delish.  I love the red bean paste and cookie treat next to the Panda.  At first it tastes like cardboard, but then it is yummy once you get used to it. 

Truly horrific even for a cilantro lover... chocolate cilantro.

Cuties.