Kado Dagashi Snack Assortment M – 5 Classic Japanese Snacks Set

If Japan’s dagashi culture has a royal family, it is Kado.

This famously low-profile maker from Ibaraki Prefecture — a company so old-school it does not even keep a website — is behind an outsized share of the icons filling the shelves of every dagashi shop in the country, most of them named like sons of the family: the beloved “Taro” series.

This set gathers five of the greatest hits in one go.

Big Katsu is the star — the legendary “cutlet” of the dagashi world.

A thin, breaded and fried snack built on fish surimi, it impersonates a full tonkatsu pork cutlet at pocket-money scale, drenched in the sweet-tangy flavor of tonkatsu sauce.

Generations of Japanese children have eaten it pressed into a slice of bread as an ersatz katsu sandwich, and grown-ups now buy it as a beer snack without a trace of shame.

Cabbage Taro is the other superstar: crunchy corn puff balls coated in Worcester-style sauce and dusted with aonori seaweed.

There is no cabbage in it whatsoever — the little green-flecked spheres simply resemble tiny cabbages — and the surreal frog policeman on the package is one of the most recognizable mascots in Japanese snack history.

The remaining three round out a proper dagashi-shop haul.

Don Don Yaki delivers crispy fried wheat pellets soaked in the same festival-food sauce flavor, named after an old street-corner snack.

New Mochi Taro is a palmful of tiny fried mochi crisps with salt and scattered peanuts — the simplest and most timeless of the family.

And Morokoshi Wa Taro brings light, airy corn rings with a gentle savory sweetness, the mildest voice in the chorus.

Every item is the genuine 30-to-40-yen article, unchanged for decades. For anyone curious what Japanese childhood actually tasted like, this is the answer, five bags deep.

About this item
Item Name : Dagashi Snack Assortment M (5 Items)
Brand : Kado
Item Form : Snacks
Number of Items : 5 Bags (Pack of 1)