Kracie Naru Naru Gumi Candy Kit (Soda)

Hey everyone, we're back after another (very busy) hiatus :D

Just a note, I went to Isetan KLCC recently and they've stocked up with an entire shelf full of new candy kits (price range RM 7-RM19) so here's your chance to bag yourself some!

What we have here is a very simple yet popular candy kit that allows you to make your own gummy 'grapes' in a rather unique way. I got this for RM9.90. I think it was a promo price because I've seen it being sold for RM12 elsewere before. I got it at one of those Japan snack faires. There's a grape flavour too, which I imagine would have been sweeter than the soda one.

Inside the bag you have the makings of a grape 'stem' made of plastic as well as three bags of sugary substance, namely a bag of fizzy sprinkles, a bag of the gummy powder and one more bag of powder you mix into a liquid to dip the 'stem' into.

 

How this works is you assemble the stem after cutting them out of the lattice (that tree shaped thing) and repeatedly dip it into the liquid, into the powder and then back into the liquid to build up the 'grapes' as you go along. It pretty much looks like this once assembled. It fits in a wee bit loose so make sure you snap it all in as tight as you can.

If you're not entirely sure how it fits together, there's some very easy to understand instructions on the back of the packet.

The kit is pretty straightforward. After you piece the stem together just pour in packet number 1 into compartment 1 and fill it up to the water line. This pack had a very strong ramune smell when I opened it up. Stir it till it dissolves and you're good to go to package 2!

Package 2 simply goes into the next compartment. It kinda looked like soap powder out of the bag, but it distinctively smelled of ramune too.

Just stick the stem in compartment one, rotate once and you're ready to start!

You just keep going back and forth between the powder and the liquid and watch as 'grapes' start to form on the stem. Our advice to get the most out of your powder is to even it out once grooves start to form so you get more even coverage.

 You'll eventually end up with this (or bigger!)

The last package has a bunch of fizzy sour lemon sprinkles in it that happilly fizz away when they hit the grapes. Personally I don't like the sprinkles all that much but they're quite nice to look at.

As far as taste goes, I was a bit surprised it didn't taste AS strong as I expected. The grapes have a gooey gummy texture of sorts and they aren't too sweet. If you made them too large they do have a tendency of randomly dropping off but generally speaking there's enough material in the packets to make almost two full stems worth of 'grapes'.

Spire sez: It was relatively fun though I probably wouldn't eat it again on pretext of not really enjoying the texture and flavour all that much.Overall this kit's end result wasn't too impressive and it can turn into a giant mess but it'll keep the kiddles entertained while you untangle the confusion about how grapes really are made :P

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 3/5

Price: 3/5

DIY level: Easy

Fun: 4/5

Meiji Mogimogi Grape Gummy

And we're back! This is Spire here on the wire.

Anyway here's another one from Meiji involving fun and tasty gummies, is the Mogimogi Grape Fruits gummy, which essentially looks like a literal bunch of grapes growing from a vine.
This cost me about RM 4 ( you can get it for RM 3-something in some places) and the gummies are a combination of red grape, muscat (green grapes) and some soda-ish flavoured stuff.

Here's the ingredients. Not exactly a very healthy thing to eat though, but its great for sharing among friends because you get multiple grapes and the 'vine' is edible too.

I pretty much opened it post haste, and let me tell you, the smell of grape when its opened is immense. It was really strong to say the least. The gummy was also rather sticky, somewhat like the sushi one, making it a bit difficult to pull out of the packaging in one piece.

But once it was out, it was real pretty to look at, all shiny and stuff. You're supposed to pluck off the grapes and eat them or share them before tackling the vine, but I went ahead and took a bite of the entire lower bit of it.

The red grapes tasted juicy and so did the green ones. They sort of fell apart in your mouth in little round bits so there was a bit of 'genuine' feeling of eating grapes there. The stem on the other hand, was rather flavourful too but I couldn't quite taste the flavour, it was like some kind of grapish-yogurty flavour. It wasn't bad but I can't figure it out at all.

EDIT: The vine is melon soda flavour! my bad.

Spire sez: Overall, I kinda like this, because it manages to have a juicy taste, even the stem. Great for sharing or as a quick snack as well!

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 4/5

Price: 5/5

DIY level: Nonexistant
Fun: 5/5