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Where To Score Japanese Green Tea Kit Kats
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 8, 2013
Modified Feb 8, 2013
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I was inordinately excited yesterday to receive an email revealing the existence of Green Tea Kit Kats. "WHAT?! GREEN TEA KIT KATS!" I exclaimed, unintentionally revealing how little it takes to trigger my easily-amused dopamine receptors. As usual, I was greeted by icy silence and eye-rolling from my more cosmopolitan colleagues, who appear to have known about these Green Tea Kit Kats since way before they were cool. Well excuse me, but not everyone spent their adolescent summers backpacking around Japan tasting exotic delicacies and attaining Satori in ancient mountaintop temples. These Green Tea Kit Kats are news to me! And maybe I'm not alone in my provincial prole-candy wonderment?
According to the press release, these Maccha Green Tea Kit Kats have just 64 calories per serving, and come "naturally packed with antioxidants, thanks to the health-giving, immune-boosting properties of green tea." It's practically health food, and clearly explains why Asian women age so gracefully. After receiving the email, I desperately called around to a number of Japanese markets in the East Village, but none have Green Tea Kit Kats in stock. These bad boys are clearly worth traveling for, and I'd be willing to crawl over a highway of human skulls to try them. Hell, I'd even go to New Jersey.
Luckily, Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater currently has Green Tea Kit Kats in stock, and you can purchase them for $6.99 per bag. "But John, how can I get to the Mitsuwa Marketplace to buy these Kit Kats for you if I don't have car?" you're no doubt wondering. Well, it's easy: Mitsuwa Shuttle Bus Service is available every half hour from Port Authority and takes less than 30 minutes. Round trip costs $6. Of course, you could just order the Kit Kats from Amazon, but Mitsuwa seems like a fun market to explore, and they've got a huge selection of Japanese products. If you go, please grab a box of Mr. Sparkle for me too.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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