Name:    K✰Pop Choco Biscuits (케이✰ 팝 초코비스킷)

Calories: 195 per serving

Maker: Lotte

Yum: ♥ ♥ 

Korea has really been embracing the whole K-pop wave that has been going on in Asia for the last several years now… and yes, this extends to snacks as well!  In the airport you can get candy and chocolates as souvenirs with drama or K-pop themes, but for today’s Korean snack review we will be looking at something you can find right at the grocery stores here for about 2,000 Won~ The K-pop Choco Biscuit!

These always stared at me on the shelf at my local store asking to be bought. You don’t see true novelty snacks every other day here like you do in Japan, so I was very amused that this was even around in a normal store… usually these sorts of things exist only for kids shows or at the airport like I said! So yes, K-pop cookies! Complete in a glamed up box with dancing lady silhouette!

The box claims that you have 86 possible collectable cards from K-pop stars that could be nestled among the biscuits with special edition RARE cards and the like.  My box told me specifically that my box would contain a collectable card from Kara/ T-ara inside  in English and in Japanese, so that solidified my opinion that this was a tourist treat.

The biscuits themselves have a nice design on them with “K-pop” stamped in the center, I felt so hilarious eating these.  Maybe they are made from the K-pop stars that never made it big? lol Korean Soylent Green… ok I’m weird, anyway!! The biscuit is a very standard and not so sweet cracker with a nice layer of chocolate on the bottom that is semi sweet like most Korean chocolate snacks I am noticing. I thought the cookies looked very nice, but I wish the biscuit had more flavor… they are a little too cracker-ish and the chocolate does not save them with that issue.  Still though, its not BAD and being the lovely lady that I am I totally ate the whole box in one sitting while working tonight…whoops.

The prize K-pop card was inside below all the cookies in a safety package~ here is who I got! ♥ A pretty card of Ji Yeon from T-ara ♥ The card appears to be a nice collectable quality, its on a nice heavy paper, high gloss, good color, and has a nice shine/foil stamping with the stars signature/name in the bottom corner,

The back is a black and white shot of the pop group + ID number for the card

I found out while writing this that they have (or maybe HAD, since I have only come across the cookies so far) a whole line of K-Pop snacks with these cards… cookies, chocolate balls, gum, and some tie-ins with cheetos, etc.  Quite an assortment O_O  Anyway, these may not be great to just buy and eat when you want cookies, BUT they would make awesome gifts to bring home for friends!!