Last year Lotte teamed up with Suntory whisky to produce Single Malt Chocolate. This year the confectioner is offering up its Ghana brand chocolate for a collaboration with popular ramen shop Menya Musashi. The result is chocolate flavored ramen (which we think is better than if it had ended up ramen flavored chocolate).
The name of the dish is Ghana Miso and it will be available from now until February 15, in honor of Valentine’s Day. This actually makes sense if you consider that in Japan women give men chocolate on Valentine’s Day and more men probably prefer ramen to chocolate. The chocolate only factors into the garnish, as it is used when cooking the ground pork that tops the otherwise ordinary miso-tonkatsu soup.
Actually chocolates posing as popular food items have been popping up for a few years.
Like these vaguely sexed-up boxes of instant hayashi rice and curry containing ordinary chocolates, pictured above.
We also found these beer bottles filled with chocolate candies on the same shelf, likely intended for “giri chocolate” (that women feel obligated to hand out to male friends and co-workers) as they effectively take the romantic edge off the traditional gift.
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