Yan Yan (snack)
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Meiji Seika
is the trade name of a pharmaceutical company in Japan, , until March 31, 2011.It was the confectionery and pharmaceutical company that manufactures a wide range of products including Hello Panda and Yan Yan...
. It comes in a package with two compartments. One side has biscuit sticks (which can be sometimes called cracker sticks), and the other has chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, or yogurt flavored frosting used for dipping. The sticks themselves may also be flavored. Some Yan Yan products are sold in rectangular with 9 sticks with dip. There is also a new version which includes two flavored dips.
The sticks
- Zebra - Herbivore
- Octopus - Lucky Number: 8
- Starfish - Star+Fish
- Cat - Say Meow
- Rhinoceros - Think Big
- Bat - Only In The Night
- Squirrel - Your Best Friend
- Rabbit - Eat More Carrots
- Mouse - Do NOt Be Timid
- Horse - Gallop Away
- Squid - Black Ink
- Beetle - Lucky Colour: Brown
- Seal - Loves To Sun Tan
- Sheep - Wool Sweaters
- Stag Beetle - Love It
- Chicken - Kokekokko
- Duck - Go For A Swim
- Whale - Biggesy Mammal
- Giraffe - Tallest Mammal
- Fox - Beware Of Lies
- Snail - Snail Mail?
- Chick - Lucky Colour: Yellow
- Goat - You Are Lucky Today
- Mole - In A Hole
- Elephant - Jumbo
- Panda - Go for More
- Frog - Amphibian
- Owl - Active At Night
- Balloon - Goes Pop
- Kettle - Goes Ssss
- Cow - Muuuuu
And the mysterious ones "Golden Egg" and "Golden Log."
Some of the animal-related quotes relate not to facts about the animals, but instead to the noise the animal makes, which is printed in a Japanese-influenced English dialect. For example:
- Chicken - Kokekokko
- Cow - Muuuuu
- Tam Ho Yan - Baaaaaa
Flavors
Yan-yan comes in a variety of flavors. This includes vanilla sticks with chocolate, strawberry, mango and vanilla cream, and chocolate sticks with vanilla cream. This snack is similar to the American snack Dunkeroos.Relation to other snacks
PockyPocky
is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan.-History:Pocky was first sold in 1966, and consists of a biscuit stick coated with chocolate. It was named after the Japanese onomatopoetic word for the sound Pocky makes when bitten, pokkin . The original was followed by...
is a similar Japanese snack which includes thinner sticks pre-dipped in cream. The cream comes in a much wider variety of flavors such as green tea cream or honey-flavored cream. Yan-yans are dipped by the consumer themselves, and come in a more limited assortment of flavors. They both also have 160 calories per serving (30g). Meiji also produces a very popular snack "Hello Panda
Hello Panda
Hello Panda is a brand of Japanese biscuit, manufactured by Meiji Seika. Each biscuit consists of a small hollow shortbread layer, filled with either Milk cream, strawberry, or chocolate filling; chocolate is the most commonly available variety...
". It is a bear shaped biscuit with either chocolate, strawberry or milk flavored fillings. Every biscuit has a cartoon print on it depicting pandas playing various sports.