Meet My Favorite Candy: Hi-Chew
For several years, I’ve had the pleasure of receiving a special kind of candy from friends who’ve traveled to Japan called “Hi-Chew” (thanks Colin, Dave, & Yame). After these people stopped going back to Japan, I thought my relationship with this candy was gone forever. Recently, I discovered them in the international candy aisle at Wegmans, score. $0.99 snags you a 10-piece wrapper that looks similar to a pack of Bubblicious, double score. Strawberry is the only flavor I’ve ever had from the Japanese packaging, but my last trip to Wegmans yielded a pack of Mango. Although it exhibited all the qualities I love about a Hi-Chew (very chewy texture, strong flavor, longevity of consumption), I prefer the Strawberry.
The pack of Mango got my Melon thinking, so today I decided to check Google for an official Hi-Chew website to find other flavors not available in Wegmans. Besides discovering 4 additional flavors (Green Apple, Grape, Melon, Orange), I also found some translated tag lines. I really want to try Green Apple!?
Tags: candy, Fail, hi-chew, international, Japan, translation, wegmans
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April 13th, 2010 at 10:34 am
This was my favorite candy back in NYC…in fact, if I still had access to these they would continue to be my favorite candy. They had it in most of the Bodega’s and I have had the supreme luxury of trying every flavor. They are by far the most amazing candy ever created. They have the texture of something between candy and gum and the flavor of life mana. I prefer the Mango over any of them because it tastes like an ACTUAL mango….while the other flavors have more of a ‘Candy’ taste to them.
April 13th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
I’ll give you that Mango definitely tastes more like a real fruit than Strawberry. The texture of them is unlike any other candy I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating. It’s so god damned chewy.
April 13th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Phil, 20 packs of mango for $17 on Amazon. http://amzn.com/B0028PCEGI