Nuts and chocolate are a natural pairing. The pleasant crunch and flavour of roasted nuts go well with the bitter sweetness of chocolate. Glico Pocky Almond Crush is a biscuit stick enrobed in milk chocolate studded with crushed almonds.

The rather muted flavour of almonds, when compared to other nuts like peanuts and hazelnuts, and the softer texture means the crushed almonds provide sufficient crunch and nuttiness without overwhelming the flavour of the chocolate or the crunch of the biscuit stick.

Indeed, you get three distinct textures – the chocolate mousse (a less dark, hence sweeter chocolate than Chocolate), the crushed almonds and the biscuit stick, which remains the crunchiest part and is thicker to provide greater surface area for the crush almonds to attach. It’s very moreish.

The box of Glico Pocky Almond Crush con­tained 2 bags each with 7 pieces. It was man­u­fac­tured in Japan and pur­chased in Hong Kong in 2015.