Tokyo Banana — Cookie Sand

Micki picks up six boxes every time she flies through Tokyo — usually alongside the I Love Custard cookies. The Cookie Sand variant of Tokyo Banana: two crisp cookies pressed around banana cream, not the famous 1991 sponge cake. She says they hold up to luggage like nothing else. They’ve gone out as Christmas gifts, housewarmings, meet-the-neighbor things. The souvenir that gets eaten and remembered. — Eris