A while ago, when my friend returned from Japan, he bought me a souvenir box of cookies, called “Maid Cookie”. Has anyone ever seen these or tried them before? They’re quite good. More pix after the jump!
I’ve seen it more than once, as some of my other friends have recieved it as gifts before. The little maid on the box front is so cute!
“Maid in Tokyo
MAID COOKIE
Milk & Maple”
A close-up of the kawaii meido. I’m assuming the tiny Japanese characters on the cookie say “Meido”.
The cookie box has a flap opening, revealing individually packed delicacies inside. And there’s Mikuru, ready to serve some delightful tea-time favors!
Each cookie has a printed expression of the maid. I have to wonder, who was the artist for this? Why would a cookie company shell out for such a product? What is their target market? Need I really ask? It’s Japan.
Each cookie is individually wrapped, and comes in either Milk flavored, or Maple flavored.
It’s tea time! I hope you enjoy your cookie. I know I will!
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All I have to say is MOE~
You mean this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/vihena/nmh_moe1.jpg
🙂
kawaii! wonder where your friend got it! I want to buy some for myself HAHA!
According to e-jump, http://ejump.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/back-from-japan-maid-cookie/
They’re from LAoX. I don’t know what that is though. ^_^;
Maid cookie?! Haha there surely are souvenirs for otakus there! The packaging looks quite well done though! XD
Indeed! It’s so nicely done that I can’t get myself to open a pack to eat it! Eating the one that I took a photo of was such a rewarding treat!
Wow, I want one now ><
Ya, it says Meido. I want the Nikoniko one!
ha haaa that one is the most kawaii!
It’s so cute. I wonder how the maple cookies tastes.
They taste very good. Well, they taste like regular cookies, I suppose. The maple taste isn’t very strong, but that might be because Canadians drink maple syrup. (lol no we don’t).
That is some really awesome packaging for a simple box of cookies. It’s so sleek and shiny. I’m so used to the plain packages you see for Oreo cookies or Chips Ahoy.
Japan has so much awesome stuff. I’m sure I’d go broke just buying novelty food items like the Maid Cookie box.
It seems a lot of Japanese products, especially souvenir food products, are packaged this way. It makes me appreciate the attention to detail they put into the presentation of their products, and the importance of aesthetics in their culture.
… though it’s also a bit wasteful for the environment. 🙁
Those are the cutest cookies ever…
It seems that the Japanese have ALWAYS been obsessed about presentation. As you can observe with sushi especially, of which has been a long time established tradition for them. It’s really interesting to see how presentation and aesthetics have a big impact on what sort of emotions get evoked in reaction to something (like products).
wow awesome
its really interesting products that wrapped with high quality box and asahina as your maid WOW what a wonderfull day
japan products is awesome, its full of high quality product
Haha you too you got them! XD
they look super kawaii well not anymore after youve eaten them ^^
well the target market is mostly for otaku right?
or probably firls you likes cute drawings on cookie ^^
they’re great eh? 😀
I want more…
My friend Nori always brought me a box of these whenever he went home for a visit. Unless I go to Japan I will never be able to eat these again. Most amazing morsel wrapped in a super cute package! I absolutely love them!!
I bought another box while I was in Japan, but I never ended up opening it, so now it sits forever sealed in my snack drawer!