Forrest Brown

I’m in Hong Kong for 6 days. By accident, it turned out that the day I arrived is the National Day of the People’s Republic of China and was being celebrated in Hong Kong with a fireworks display in Victoria Harbor.

My hotel was a few blocks from the harbor, but I had watched the Chines New Year fireworks from near there last year, so I decided to head to Victoria Peak to see if I could find a good location to watch the fireworks.

Fireworks in Victoria Harbor.

Flying from London to Hong Kong I had a plane change in Mumbai India. Turns out that an airport in Mumbai is really not that different than an airport anywhere else.

One interesting thing about Japan are it’s Kit Kat candy bars. Everyone has probably eaten a Kit Kat and knows that they are creme filled wafers, covered in an layer of milk chocolate. But In Japan, Kit Kats come in a huge variety of flavors, everything for the regular chocolate to a crazy Wasabi flavor, some really good and some truly awful. What’s interesting is that different seasons and different regions of Japan have different flavors of Kit Kats that people collect as souvenirs of that region.

Once I saw that there were so many flavors of Kit Kats, I started watching out for new flavors to try whenever I was traveling.

Soy Sause Flavored Kit Kat

Soy sauce flavored Kit Kats sounds pretty strange and possibly awful, but they were actually pretty good. They had a sweet and salty flavor, kind of like chocolate covered pretzels.

Click here to see all of the different flavors of Kit Kats that I tried

A Yubari Melon is a Cantaloupe like melon that is grown in the town of Yubari in Hokkaido Japan. The crazy thing about the Yubari Melon is how much they sell for. Just one melon sells for $100 -$200 (yes, really), with two melons selling at auction in 2008 for $26,000 (yes, Japan is strange sometimes).

I’ve never had a Yubari Melon, so I can’t say if the price is worth it. But I’ve had Yubari Melon flavored Kit Kats.

The Kit Kats were interesting, they were milk chocolate and looked like a regular kit kat, but there was a faint cantaloupe smell to them. The taste was pretty much what you would expect if you crossed a cantaloupe with a Kit Kat. Unfortunately it’s a combo that doesn’t really work all that great together. The Cantaloupe flavor was not real strong, but it was noticeable.

Yubari Melon Flavored Kit Kat

Click here to see all of the different flavors of Kit Kats that I tried

I was walking through Shinjuku Station when I saw a group of ladies stopping to take photos of a new Hitachi ad. I’m not sure who the guy on the ad is, but he was sure popular. I watched for a couple of minutes and in that time 15 – 20 ladies stopped to take his photo.

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Hamburger steak for lunch.

Ramen for Dinner.

My ramen being preparing

I’ve found an old friend in Tokyo.