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Snack Monster: Lotte Kancho & Hello Panda

December 24, 2008 by Renee Claire

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:

lotte kancho hello panda boxes
lotte kancho box
lotte kancho hello panda comparison
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.

hello panda open
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 also slang for a Japanese practical joke where the prankster places his index fingers together and then tries to forcefully insert them into the victim’s anus. Not the best name for a chocolate biscuit, methinks.

lotte kancho
hello panda lotte kancho inside

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  1. u8mypinkcookies says

    January 13, 2011 at 8:27 am

    i love HELLO PANDA 😀

  2. KanchoLove331 says

    February 10, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    I love Kancho! It’s my favorite kind of snack all-times!!! ;p

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