Mike Popcorn: Red Bean Toast Flavour

Mike Popcorn is probably best known for their soy sauce butter flavour. However, like most Japanese snack brands, there are limited edition or seasonal flavours that come out every so often. One that caught my eye was the ogura toast flavour, probably because I live in the city who prides themselves on the red bean paste on toast culture (Nagoya). Ogura toast is usually sweet red bean paste spread atop of a well-buttered piece of white bread toast. Sometimes whipped cream is added or placed ontop of the red bean in place of butter, but Mike Popcorn uses the conventional butter and red bean combo.

The flavour of the red bean is quite prominent, slightly sweet and has a good adzuki  (red bean) aftertaste. Although it smelled like buttered popcorn, I didn't really get the sense of the butter flavour. I actually thought at one point that it almost tasted like the Corn Pops cereal!