Koala's March (コアラのマーチ Koara no Māchi) is a bite-sized cookie snack with a sweet filling inside. It is made by Lotte, and the product was first released in Japan, and was released in March 1984 as "Koala Yummies" in the United States. Because of this the origin of the snack is commonly misunderstood and believed to be Japanese while few know that it is really a product of Thailand.
Koala's March is in the shape of a koala with a picture of a koala on the outside of the cookie doing various activities. There are various flavors available for the filling, such as honey, cafe latte, and banana. The two most common flavors are strawberry and chocolate, and are the only flavors available in the US along with white chocolate creme filled chocolate cookies. The snack also comes in pineapple flavor, though it is rarer than the other flavors. Koala's March supports the Australian conservation group Australian Koala Foundation.
During the 2008 Chinese milk scandal of September 2008, the Koala's March cookies were recalled in both Macau and Hong Kong after Macau's Health Bureau found unsafe levels of the industrial chemical melamine in the product. Both major supermarket chains in Hong Kong, Wellcome and PARKnSHOP, promptly removed the cookies off their store shelves as a precautionary measure.[1]
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