Hello Panda
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Hello Panda is a popular brand of Japanese biscuits, manufactured by Meiji Seika. Each biscuit consists of a small hollow shortbread layer, within which resides either vanilla, strawberry, peanut butter or chocolate filling, of which chocolate is most common.
It was first released in Japan during the Summer of 1979. Recently a yellow-boxed version containing the biscuits with a chocolate shell (instead of the usual shortbread) has hit the shelves. Printed on the biscuits are cartoon style depictions of giant pandas; presumably this is where the product derives its name. The name could also be a possible allusion to the famed character Hello Kitty.
Hello Panda is manufactured mainly in Japan, but production has been outsourced to countries like Singapore, The Philippines and Indonesia of late and is now exported to most developed countries.
