Vending machines in Japan are unique from the rest of the world. Not only are they everywhere, and I mean absolutely everywhere, they're ubiquity is only outstripped by their availability of selection. I would be willing to wager that there are at least eight different companies with vending machines set up around Japan, and in every vending machine there is no less than ten different drinks.
If you can't find something you enjoy, then have some water.
With this in mind, I'd like to introduce a new feature to this blog of mine! Everyone put your hands together for Vending Machine Roulette! Please come with me on a journey for the ages, as I venture out on a magnificent quest to buy, try and review every single beverage available for purchase from Japanese vending machines.
Today's drink is something called Match. Aside from sporting a fancy yellow colour, and taking up residence in a tiny little machine next to an off white liquid called 'Pro-Sweat', which may or may not be real sweat, bottles of Match come with a fun little pump up message: Let's Vitamin! Yes! Let us Vitamin!
In the area of taste, it is on the borderline of too sweat and addicting. Its flavour is that of liquified candy. If you took all the rockets you received as kid while trick or treating, probably not an inconsiderable amount, and blended them with syrup into a yellowy broth, you would create something with a taste very similar to match.
I've only found two vending machines holding the stuff, and they were located on a shady train platform and a dark alley, respectively.
Let us vitamin!
Ciao,
Sean
If you can't find something you enjoy, then have some water.
With this in mind, I'd like to introduce a new feature to this blog of mine! Everyone put your hands together for Vending Machine Roulette! Please come with me on a journey for the ages, as I venture out on a magnificent quest to buy, try and review every single beverage available for purchase from Japanese vending machines.
Today's drink is something called Match. Aside from sporting a fancy yellow colour, and taking up residence in a tiny little machine next to an off white liquid called 'Pro-Sweat', which may or may not be real sweat, bottles of Match come with a fun little pump up message: Let's Vitamin! Yes! Let us Vitamin!
In the area of taste, it is on the borderline of too sweat and addicting. Its flavour is that of liquified candy. If you took all the rockets you received as kid while trick or treating, probably not an inconsiderable amount, and blended them with syrup into a yellowy broth, you would create something with a taste very similar to match.
I've only found two vending machines holding the stuff, and they were located on a shady train platform and a dark alley, respectively.
Let us vitamin!
Ciao,
Sean
