Chocolate works in mysterious ways.
Posted by ilyana | Filed under Fashion, Food & Nosh, Make-Up & Beauty
So on Monday, I finally met Yumi for a pancakes and pasta brunch date - we were both from the same design school but never really knew of each other’s existence till she found me via tea noir and twitter. Coincidentally, we’re both going to be stuck in Melbourne for the next couple of years so I thought- ah what the heck, let’s quit being the cool, mysterious arty design bitchez we already are for a day and get to know each other lol!
Yumi’s half Japanese and prior to our date, she was trudging in the snowy mountains of Fukuoka, bravely battling the high winds to shop for the kitschy cute and weird Japan is known for. She told me she got me a couple of stuff which is incredibly sweet considering we’ve never officially met lol. I mean I could have easily been an unmarried 40 year-old man with a make-up fetish posing as a girl who writes beauty entries to lure other girls in but Yumi fearlessly decided that she was going to meet me despite the odds - you’re fierce, girl, just fierce.
LOL OK JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR: I am NOT a 40 year-old man posing as a girl mmkay. Anyway look at what Yumi got me:
HOLY. MOTHER. OF. OSAKA. When she handed me the bag (isn’t it the cutest plastic bag EVER?) I was like O__O dayumm, that’s like the whole of Japan in there rofl. She got me so many things from food to chocolate lip balm omg, thank you so much sweets!
She got me a bottle of her favourite leave-in hair treatment. I have no idea what brand this is but let me tell you girls, this is the SHIT right here. The treatment has a watery gel-like consistency and has the most amazing scent similar to that of sun-ripened fleshy peaches growing in the valleys of Persia. My life feels a little more complete now that my hair smells like peaches rofl XD Btw I am loving the engrish on the bottle - “Even turns high damaged hair from coloring and perm into moist, manageable, and shiny beautiful hair just by ‘Sa~tto’ applying it” HAHA WHUTTTT.
Yes, yes getting to the food bit now. ROYCE Fruit Bar Chocolate is a Hokkaido-exclusive, you can’t get it anywhere else except Hokkaido. Yumi’s mom received a box of ten from a friend and she gave me a piece to try. I don’t know about you guys but this feels as epic as someone giving birth to 10 beautiful babies and giving one of them away for the greater good. LOL WHERE AM I GETTING ALL THESE RIDICULOUS ANALOGIES FROM?
I have to be honest here: I’ve never been fond of mixing fruit with chocolate so being the skeptic I am, I was really expecting the usual: pieces of fruit stuck in a bar of milk chocolate (mehhh) but what lies beneath the deceiving milky pink packaging is perhaps THE best fruit-based chocolate I have ever tasted.
It’s mainly made of puffy cereal with pieces of mango, banana and assorted berries lodged in between the minute gaps and covered with a light berry-flavoured WHITE CHOCOLATE. You guys have no idea how obsessed I am with white chocolate - I know it’s not really chocolate but who cares.
ROYCE, please accept my sincere apologies, I will never doubt your supreme chocolatey powers for as long as I live. I will tell the stories of your chocolates to my children and they will then pass on these stories to their own children, thereby continuing your chocolate legacy forever. God, I’m so high on sugar right now (I just ate 2 donuts), someone save me before I start rambling incoherently >_>
Milk-flavoured candy + keepsake tin can = happiness. It’s a magic formula!~
WHOO HOO JAPANESE CURRY! And at only 178kcal per serving, how can something so good be….diet-friendly?!! BRB MOVING TO JAPAN NOWS TTYL.
OMG another pack of royal milk tea kit kat!! T__T I’m hiding this one in my room to prevent chocolate thieves, I am not going to let this out of my sight.
Kellogg’s Cocoa Rice Krispies lip balm…I have no words - I’m completely out of adjectives to describe how awesome this is. It smells and tastes like chocolate, I’m awfully tempted to just eat the damn thing.
Yumi hooked me up with a copy of egg magazine which focuses on the gyaru fashion culture in Japan.
Japanese make-up tutorials are epic, they’re really detailed and give you step-by-step instructions on how to recreate a certain look. I think this page shows you how to apply different falsies, so fascinating lol.
Oh and Yumi, here’s proof that I have a cat LOL. He sleeps in the weirdest positions ever. Thank you so much for the Japan-in-a-bag treat lol, I LOVE EVERYTHING and er thanks to your filtering/packing horror stories lol, I’ve started to pack and I totally agree with you when you said..
PACKING IS A BEECH. OMFG YOU GUYS. My pretty glitter-flecked knits…my gold brocade skirt..my houndstooth sweater..my warm cosy layering basics…my sexy forest green dress my mother must never see T__T I think I’m going to have a serious clothing meltdown soon urghhh.
I’m going to take photos of my make-up collection before I start wrapping them up in bubble-wrap, that should be interesting lol. The MAC All Ages, All Races, All Sexes Collection is finally out in Singapore, I bought a couple of things from the collection yesterday so you girls can expect that in my next entry ;D
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Tags: food: chocolate, japan, life, nosh: japanese food
15 Responses to “Chocolate works in mysterious ways.”
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mariam Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:35 pmilyana! awesome stuffs uve got there!
have fun in melbourne! -
AtelierGal Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:44 pmAll these food are making me drool, especially when my hormones are running amok right now!
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nlngstar Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:33 pmhave fun. Ha, I’m mouth watering looking at those choco!
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Blair Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:33 pmYumi is the sweetest! She hooked you up girly!!! And dayumm, I want me some of that leave in hair treatment!
Actually, I can believe that Visee lost. It’s just that terrible -.- No idea how Tsuya Tsuya compares to MAC, sorry!
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nadz Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:43 amThat plastic bag is from Art Box! Damn cute! What’s up with your cat o_0, he looks like he have a tummy ache! or having a really wet cat dream lulz.
That chocolate lip balm looks ~MAJOR~.
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jas Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 2:49 pmXD i can’t believe that she got you a copy of Egg lolol it’s got more epik eye makeup than Popteen for sure 8DD
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Sue Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 4:41 pmomigod! can have the chocies please? Japan stuffs are so kawaii~neh~ xD
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ilyana Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 8:22 am@ mariam
thank you! I’m still in the midst of packing sigh!@ AtelierGal
I knowww what you mean! When my period comes I usually tend to get more junkfood cravings than ever lol.@ nlngstar
The chocolate lipbalm is awesome! It smells and tastes like the real thing lol, I think it’s useless as a lipbalm for me because I keep licking it off
@ Blair
YEAH GIRL HOOKED ME UP REAL GOOD LOL!! Omg Blair the hair treatment smells sooo good, I swear it makes my hair almost edible lol.I expected better quality from Visee sigh! Btw have you tried the KATE gel liner? I hear it’s good.
@ nadz
Mikhail’s always ALWAYS sleeping like that, I don’t even know why cats have the strangest sleeping positions ever….is it really that comfortable lol?@ Jas
IKRRRR! The eyelash tutorials in the magazine are INSANELY DETAILED!@ Sue
Nah uh I’m not sharing any of this mehhhh. Hahha is there a Japanese candy store near you hun? You should try the milk tea kit kat..it is SUBLIME. -
jeannie Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:44 pmthose royal milk tea kitkats are to die for!! I LOVE them and wish I could get them in the US!
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Jennifer H Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 5:55 pmholy crap! that’s a lot of goodies in there!! i love the milky girls’ candies since i was small, now they’re not easy to find everywhere! and ROYCE chocolate is heaven lol!
are you packing for Aussie?
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amy Says:
February 6th, 2010 at 12:25 pmWhat an amazing looking pack of goodies ! XD
Japanese curry is the best!!
That fruit choco bar is gorgeous, I love the ‘high-end’ packaging. ^__^
<3 milky candies! the tin is super kawaii -
evie Says:
February 6th, 2010 at 2:38 pmlove the package!!!!! and the royce looks superb!
erm i sure alot of ppl will say this alot of times but good luck with the packing!
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ilyana Says:
February 6th, 2010 at 6:49 pm@ jeannie
hey! thanks for reading! they are my faves!! So sad they’re only limited edition :/@ Jennifer
I knowww, my eyes were like O_O when I saw how much stuff she actually bought for me! I have such great friends ;D I haven’t tried the milky candy but I will soon.YES I’m packing for my move and absolutely dying.
@ amy
I love love love Japanese curry too <33
Royce chocolates have some of the best chocolates I’ve ever had the pleasure of trying!@ evie
Thank you hun, I love it too!!
LOL THANKS! I NEED THE LUCK. -
Catherine Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 1:02 pmWow, so much awesome stuff!!
And LMAO. Your cat is so freaking awesome. I love him! What’s his name?
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StoryBookDreamer Says:
May 1st, 2010 at 12:19 pmThat’s awesome. The plastic bag alone is so adorable. And all the contents are so cool. I’m jealous! D;
Hahaha. Your cat is very cute(:
