ICHIBAN CANDY AND SNACKS — Attraction in Chicago

This is a SERIOUS candy store. They sell EVERYTHING from Mango gummies, Green tea Matcha Kit Kat’s (They even sell dark Matcha flavor), peach mint Kit Kat’s, wasabi peas, ginger chews, Pocky in most flavors, Ramune Soda Pop, jelly teas, Japanese candy, soda flavored hard candy, lollipops, shredded & dried pork, dehydrated fruit, cake candy, gummy cakes, hard and soft candies.. Seriously just GO!! If you want to try anything, just ask. Everyone there is super friendly. Monday mornings are the best time to go because the shop is less crowded and you can see more products and fewer people. Here are the Kit Kat flavors if you are a collector : Matcha, Peach Mint, White chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Mint, strawberry, Birthday Cake, orange, milk chocolate. I’m sure that there are more flavors, so this is just a short list. If you want unique treats,...

Huge selection of exotic very good candy and preserves, polite staff, but (EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE!!!) they even sell some regular candy that you can find on other stores (E.g. M&Ms and Toblerone, And other regular candy) but they sell it at TRIPLE the price! Way too expensive for the average family! not to mention that they tend to follow around while you’r surfing around, despite the fact that they have like 20 cameras every were , i understand its their business and they have to take care of it, but following you around its kind of uncomfortable, they are polite though , but they still follow you pretending like they are putting items on their right place, but they are actually checking you, if you don’t care about any that, and don’t care to spend a-lot of money , they this is a good place to find some good exotic...

Been coming here for Asian candy since I was a kid! The workers definitely watch you to make sure you don’t steal because the items are so small. They don’t yell at you if you try some of the candies. They have remodeled recently so there’s less candies to taste but at least they made use of the space in the back and made it a cash register.

Definitely your trip to Chinatown won’t be complete unless you come here and try some interesting Asian candies. I went here yesterday and saw deep fried crab and seaweed peanuts. I’m into trying new things so this place has a lot of new flavors that most people haven’t tried. I like some of the sour Asian candies like dried sour plums or dried mango.

They have common sweets like Skittles and Pocky so don’t be scared off. There are familiar...