Maho was a frequent commenter on this blog when I was in Japan the last time. A while back I saw that she wrote on twitter that there was a special kind of candy she liked and that it was Swedish candy. Of course I recognized the candy and thought I’d send her some more as a thanks for the comments explaining various things! Emma and I then went to the store and gathered up a variety of Swedish types of candy including the kind Maho liked and sent her a package.

The package

Today I got a package back from her! :D

The package

The package is about twice the size (if not more) than what we sent her! And it’s completely covered with awesome!

Awesome postage stamps

When opening the package I found more awesome! Everything was so neatly laid out and cute!

The insides

She had also written this totally epic letter! This is way, way more effort than we put into our package :P

Best letter ever!

This is all the stuff we got, I haven’t tried anything yet but I’m going to next time I meet Emma!

Contents of the package

Emma got a special little bag of goodies just for her with the cutest most awesome stuff ever created by man!

The stuff to Emma

Thank you soo much Maho! :D

I will post more on each item as I/we eat them! :D

So there was actually one thing that I missed from Sweden, and that thing was candy.
The Japanese had quite a lot of candy, it’s not really that. But almost all their candy tasted very unnatural, it was all chemical tastes and the chocolate wasn’t really to my taste either, and of course you can’t really find real liquorice (you can’t find that in most of the world).

But the one thing I missed the most about Swedish candy was this:

Buying candy by the weight is something I rarely see outside of Sweden, but I love this! You can choose to buy as many pieces as you want from as many different kinds as you want and you only pay for how much all of the candy weighs. This is something I’m having a hard time seeing Japan take on because of their “fear” of unpackaged things and need for sterile cleanliness. But it’s really awesome because you can customize what you buy and you don’t need to buy a whole lot of packages of different things.