{"id":2263,"date":"2025-09-25T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:00:27","slug":"new-japanese-kitkat-flavour-lets-you-eat-a-zunda-milkshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"New Japanese KitKat flavour lets you eat a zunda milkshake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-713430\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/new-Japanese-Kit-Kat-Flavour-zunda-shake-saryo-sendai-sweets-chocolate-regional-shop-souvenirs-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Sweet edamame paste gets the KitKat treatment for a limited time.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always a good day when Nestl\u00e9 reveals a new Japanese KitKat flavour, and seeing as it\u2019s been almost half a year since its <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2025\/04\/08\/new-japanese-kitkat-flavours-include-sakura-and-pineapple-candy\/\">last limited-edition release<\/a>, this latest reveal is very good news indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Called <strong>Original Zunda Shake Flavour<\/strong>, this new addition to the stable of exclusive Japanese KitKats comes to us courtesy of Zunda Saryo, a Sendai-based zunda sweets specialty store whose signature sweet is the <strong>Zunda Shake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-713435\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/new-Japanese-Kit-Kat-Flavour-zunda-shake-saryo-sendai-sweets-chocolate-regional-shop-souvenirs-6.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zunda is a traditional, sweet-and-savoury green paste made from <strong>finely mashed edamame beans<\/strong>, with a history that dates back to the Sengoku period (<span class=\"LrzXr kno-fv wHYlTd z8gr9e\">1467<\/span>-1615). A specialty of Japan\u2019s Miyagi Prefecture, particularly the city of Sendai, zunda can be hard to find outside the region, but now it\u2019s set to become more widely available, thanks to this new KitKat release.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-713440\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/new-Japanese-Kit-Kat-Flavour-zunda-shake-saryo-sendai-sweets-chocolate-regional-shop-souvenirs-3-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To help recreate the flavour of Zunda Saryo\u2019s iconic shake, which is officially the best-selling freshly made edamame shake in the world, edamame powder is mixed into the cream sandwiched between the wafers. Wrapped round it all is a rich chocolate flavoured with zunda shake, imparting the same sweet, nutty, rich and milky flavours throughout the palate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-713441\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/new-Japanese-Kit-Kat-Flavour-zunda-shake-saryo-sendai-sweets-chocolate-regional-shop-souvenirs-4-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u25bc The KitKats will be sold in a nine-piece box for 1,069 yen (US$7.14).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-713439\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/new-Japanese-Kit-Kat-Flavour-zunda-shake-saryo-sendai-sweets-chocolate-regional-shop-souvenirs-2-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The KitKats will be sold exclusively at Zunda Saryo stores and select Kasho Sanzen stores, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shop.sanzen.co.jp\/shop\/g\/g459\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Kasho Sanzen sells a number of specialty sweets from MIyagi Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-713434\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/new-Japanese-Kit-Kat-Flavour-zunda-shake-saryo-sendai-sweets-chocolate-regional-shop-souvenirs-5.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like the previous Zunda Shake KitKat release, which graced stores for <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2019\/11\/27\/japanese-kitkats-now-come-in-edamame-milkshake-flavour\/\">a limited time back in 2019<\/a>, this updated version will only be available for a set period, from 1 October to around the end of March 2026, so be sure to grab them when you can!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source, images: <a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000088.000029663.html\">PR Times<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u25cf Want to hear about SoraNews24\u2019s latest articles as soon as they\u2019re published? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RocketNews24En\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketNews24En\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet edamame paste gets the KitKat treatment for a limited time. It\u2019s always a good day when Nestl\u00e9 reveals a new Japanese KitKat flavour, and seeing as it\u2019s been almost&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}