Anime is actually pretty trendy. If an anime becomes popular it no doubt will have some kind of icon associated with it, including snacks. I have seen many snacks eaten in anime that seems to be picked up by a lot of otaku. You have chocolate coronet from Lucky Star, melon-pan from Shana and Dears, and you have the infamous pocky from Onegai Teacher. It’s amazing what can be picked up and passed on as a trend, I went out to try these snacks just because I saw it in the anime lol. Tell me if you know any other popular food out there that became famous just because of an anime or maybe even your favorite anime snack ^-^.
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Melon pan is really yummy =9 So is Pocky…I love Pocky. I also remember asking my mom to buy Sata Andagi when she went on a business trip to Okinawa just because me and my boyfriend saw it in Azumanga Daioh and Yotsuba& ^_^
@coeli: Ahhh, sata andagi…I too want to try that but I tried a local version here, I think, called malasada. (Drool) Thinking about that melon pan I had in Japan again…it tasted like melon lol, over here it tastes like cinnamon.
Sata andagi kinda tastes weird at first, with that grainy texture and stuff.. The melon pan that I ate was huge! Oh, onigiri is good too ^_^
@coeli: I know what you’re talking about with the melon pan size, the one I ate was the size of my head lol. Onigiri is quite common where I live and can be picked up at the local 7-11, though its much more satisfying making my own every now and then.
My boyfriend makes onigiri for me ^^ It’s hard to find onigiri here in the Philippines. Only a few Japanese restaurants serve them.
@coeli: You could always buy a onigiri molder, like the one I have, then you can have onigiri anytime you like ^-^. Though I barely use it lol, I keep forgetting about it as it sits there in the cabinet. I don’t know if I have seen any Japanese restaurant selling them, even when I was in Japan. I only saw onigiri in konbini’s (convenience stores).
I know of two restaurants here in the Philippines that serve onigiri.. It’s quite impractical to make onigiri because the short-grain rice here is so expensive.
@coeli: Sorry to hear that but thank you for that info. I don’t know how well long grain would do but I just hope those restaurants don’t overcharge you for onigiri that can be bought for about 1 USD or 100 yen.