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Japanese fruit.

mimizumimizu Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey, I have a tin of old-fasioned hard candies from japan, in various fruit flavors. grape, pineapple. orange, melon, lemon, strawberry, and the one I'm asking about, hakka. The rest are written the english with katakana (eg; sutoroberi-, remon). I have no idea what a 'hakka' is, and I can't find it on google. Does anyone know what a 'hakka' is?

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  • BlochWaveBlochWave Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Could it be the Hakuto or Kaki? That's all I could find that's even similar, hakka is apparently a place

    What's it taste like?

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    well, the colour for it shown on the tin is white, and it tastes cool and crisp, similar to mint, but diffrent.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You mean Sakuma drops?

    One of the flavors is mint, and you didn't list mint, so... I'm guessing it's mint.

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    mabey it's 'Jumping spider' flavored XD

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    'Meiji furu-tsu doroppu'

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    it's the white round one.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    hakka means mint or peppermint

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    well, that would explain the 'minty' flavor XD
    Thanks!

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  • mooshoeporkmooshoepork Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    yeah, I had a feeling it was these drops.

    They are the best thing ever. In fact, I think I might go and pick some up :D

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Unfortunately, I can no longer eat fruit drops because I start thinking about dead japanese children and crying.

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You're supposed to watch that as a doulbe feature with totoro :wink:

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  • mooshoeporkmooshoepork Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Maybe I am cold, but I did not cry in that movie. It was sad, but...I dunno. Maybe it was the atmosphere I was in (Japanese class)

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  • Asamof the HorribleAsamof the Horrible Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Unfortunately, I can no longer eat fruit drops because I start thinking about dead japanese children and crying.

    Yeah, I immediately thought of that movie too. Seeing that picture reaffirmed that notion

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  • virgilsammsvirgilsamms Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I love those fruit drops.

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  • MoSiAcMoSiAc Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I have never seen these at my grocery or 7 11, where in Japan are these usually procurable?

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  • mooshoeporkmooshoepork Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    MoSiAc wrote: »
    I have never seen these at my grocery or 7 11, where in Japan are these usually procurable?

    when I was there I got them in a large supermarket in Osaka. I thought they were quite popular.

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I got them at an asian market :wink:

    I live need the 'korea'-town-type district in my city.

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  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    These are good? I've lived in Japan for years and never tried them. It might be Grave of The Fireflies trauma preventing me subconsciously.

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Sakuma drops are the grave of the fireflies ones, these are Meiji fruit drops. They're like the kind of candies you find in glass jars at old-people houses, but slightly sweeter.

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  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2008
    I really want to try some, but have never been to Japan. But yeah, that whole Grave of the Fireflies thing....

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    ceres wrote: »
    I really want to try some, but have never been to Japan.
    I'm pretty sure they can be found outside Japan. I remember an Asian grocery store near where I lived in Vancouver had them. And the Japanese are in the minority of the Asian population in the Vancouver area.

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  • mooshoeporkmooshoepork Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    ceres wrote: »
    I really want to try some, but have never been to Japan. But yeah, that whole Grave of the Fireflies thing....

    I have seen them in Asian supermarkets often. If worse comes to worse you can always get them at www.playasia.com

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  • mimizumimizu Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I didn't get them in japan, I got them in the saint louis suberbs XD

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  • MoSiAcMoSiAc Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Does this classify as irony, something Japanese that can't seem to be readily found in Japan? (for sake of argument I keep forgetting to look really hard at the grocery)

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  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    MoSiAc wrote: »
    Does this classify as irony, something Japanese that can't seem to be readily found in Japan? (for sake of argument I keep forgetting to look really hard at the grocery)

    You have to go somewhere old-fashioned and they have them. 7 11 probably have them but in a different package - something snazzier.

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  • MoSiAcMoSiAc Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Found them today actually at the "dollar store" so to speak. Almost picked up a can but then I remembered I have to put metal in different garbage than other stuff, and its only once every twice a week that it comes, so I opted out, but maybe next time heh.

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  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    MoSiAc wrote: »
    Found them today actually at the "dollar store" so to speak. Almost picked up a can but then I remembered I have to put metal in different garbage than other stuff, and its only once every twice a week that it comes, so I opted out, but maybe next time heh.

    Ah come on - don't let can-gomi put you off.

    Just rinse the cans and stick them in a plastic bag, or be sneaky and give 7 11 a 'present'

    100yen shops ftw!

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