Pet pies are ready to take you on a style journey.
It’s all about pups and pies at McDonald’s in Japan proper now, as a result of the chain lately launched a duo of Sankaku (Triangle) Choco Pies with cute Shiba Inu canine on the packaging. Whereas the triangle pies have been making limited-time appearances on the menu through the years, that is the primary time for them to be served up in such cute packing containers so prospects have been additional hungry for them.
Our personal reporter Haruka Takagi couldn’t resist the charms of the Shiba Inu pair, so she stopped by McDonald’s to strive them. This was an enormous occasion for Haruka as a result of she’s one of many few folks she is aware of who hasn’t ever eaten a triangle pie earlier than, so she determined to go all out by making a meal of them.
▼ With 1,000 yen (US$6.63) in her pocket, that is what she ordered.
Haruka often solely eats burger units at McDonald’s, so this was a complete new expertise for her. Along with her favorite Huge Mac burger set costing 750 yen, she wouldn’t have been in a position to afford each pies — the chocolate pie prices 160 yen and the candy potato and caramel pie prices 180 yen — so after some artistic considering and recommendation from associates, she determined this could be one of the simplest ways to strive the pies whereas consuming a considerable lunch that will maintain her full for the remainder of the working day.
Fortunately for her, she had some coupons available to assist her get much more for her yen, so she was in a position to choose up the next:
▼ Giant fries — 280 yen (coupon value)
▼ And a five-pack of Hen nuggets — 240 yen (coupon value).
▼ The BBQ sauce that she selected with the nuggets was a superb accompaniment for the fries as effectively.
▼ It didn’t take lengthy for her to complete the savoury gadgets on her tray, particularly with a small-sized Coke Zero (120 yen) to assist wash them down.
Now it was time for Haruka to get her first style of the pies, beginning with the chocolate flavour, which she was in a position to buy for 150 yen with a coupon.
The pie was fantastically crisp, and although her first chunk didn’t get her shut sufficient to the cream centre, she was in a position to style a powerful flavour of cocoa within the dough.
She was instantly impressed by the eye to element in each the style and texture of the pie, and her emotions intensified after she obtained to strive the nice and cozy cream. It was easy and candy, however with a barely bitter style that gave it a richness and sense of high quality that she wasn’t anticipating. There have been even advantageous almonds within the combine, offering a pleasing crunch to distinction with the smoothness of the cream and the crispiness of the dough.
▼ Haruka says the standard of this chocolate pie is superb.
▼ The candy potato and caramel pie was additionally a steal, at 170 yen with a coupon.
The second she bit into this one, her ears tingled on the nice crispy sound earlier than her style buds signalled that this was one other spectacular providing. When the candy potato centre squirted into her mouth, she was instantly besotted with the seasonal flavour, which was made much more scrumptious with the addition of chocolate and crunchy caramel-flavoured corn items.
In case you have been maintaining a tally of the invoice, Haruka was in a position to stroll away from this scrumptious meal with change in her pocket, because it got here to a complete of 960 yen. Feeling completely satisfied and satiated, Haruka extremely recommends this choice of menu gadgets for a cute and hearty meal any day of the week, however the pies will solely be obtainable for a restricted time, with the pink selection on the menu till early November and the black till late December, so that you’ll need to get in quickly to strive them!
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