Recently, I’ve discovered that a nearby deli sells Hello Panda biscuits, a Japanese brand with adorable pandas imprinted on these flavor-filled biscuits, doing random cute things like playing tennis. I’d call them more a cookie, with their various fillings of three different flavors; chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. Each is just as delicious as the next.
Finding these kind of treats is always a delight. Not everyone sells them and most certainly not if you live in a small town. But in a big city where there’s lots of imported goods, Hello Panda biscuits/cookies/whatever delicious word you want to call them, can be found in delis and bodegas here and there if you know where to look.
That’s the joy of imported candy and cookies. The foods from both China and Japan are always so different, yet delicious. They have fun packaging whose contents are not always easily discernible, but it’s never turned me away from trying something new.
They really are a delicious concoction of a cookie filled with sweet icing, almost like a pastry version of Gushers. And in my searches online for more, I came across someone who had a brilliant idea of eating them as cereal by pouring them in a bowl with milk. I think I know what I’m doing for breakfast tomorrow.
