Very small sample size. I’ve only had Mexican and Vietnamese candy. The Mexican candy was a goat’s milk sucker and this. I don’t remember what the Vietnamese candy was.
The sucker tasted like caramel but took getting used to. I probaably would have been fine had I not been told there was goat’s milk in it. I didn’t know the Spanish word for goat. The other two candies made me long for a pack of Now and Laters.
I stock Mexican pinata candy in my classroom, and I adore English candy. The rest I can take or leave, not being a chocoholic.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Japanese Kit Kat Bars. 
edited to add: Available in lovely gift packs!
Some flavors of mochi (from Japan) are pretty good. I’ve also had azuki flavored ice cream, which wasn’t bad.
My parents brought back Japanese candy when they visited in the early 60s. It reminded me of salt water taffy, but the bonus was that they were wrapped in rice paper, so you could eat them without unwrapping.
Whenever I’m in Canada or the UK, I stock up on Maynard’s Wine Jellies. I discovered them through a SDMB candy exchange, and they were delicious.
Agree. I also like Pocky, Yan Yan, and Botan Rice Candy.
Japan has some pretty awesome snacks/candy.
And some pretty scarey ones.
So the answer is “Yes, sometimes”
I once started a thread about Dutch salt licorice–egad!
I’ve tried the Mexican lollipops–the red, white, and green ones they probably sell on Olvera Street. And as a kid I ate panocha; that’s too much sugar for me now.
My daughter recently offered me some Chinese green tea flavored candies someone had given her. I held one in my hand and it was exactly the texture, size, and weight of a testicle. I pinched off a tiny piece and ate it. Unsurprisingly, it tasted like green tea which I don’t even like, so I gave the rest to the dog. I had to get up in the night and take the dog out because she had the shits.
We had some nice candy in Australia, though. I bought some chocolate bars that we don’t find at home, something with mint filling, a Cherry Ripe, some variety of Cadbury bar. I wanted a Violet Crumble but they weren’t in store at the time.
I’m convinced that the Japanese just don’t get the concept of sweets. They get it right occasionally, like with Pocky, but that’s just by accident. But sugar-coated soybeans? Seaweed-flavored cookies? No, those don’t work.
I grew up in the SF Bay Area and it was in most of the grocery stores. No passport needed.
Oh god yes!
A lot of Thai candy is good.
If it anything like Finnish Salmiakki salt liquorice then that is fantastic stuff! 
Milk candy from japan is a perennial favorite of mine (I prefer the kasugai brand since they offer a hard candy). Konpeito is great too, but it’s harder to find even in the local asian groceries. Pocky doesn’t have enough umph for me anymore - I like Meiji’s Fran version more since it has a thicker coating, but when the choice is pocky or milk candy at the checkout I’m taking the milk candy. (I’ll take flavored Pretz over Pocky any day though!). Japan has the best kit kat flavors - why they never brought the more generic strawberry or dark chocolate over here is a mystery to me. Ice cream mochi is an interesting experience but ultimately I’ll just take straight ice cream since that’s why I’m eating it to begin with.
You could sort of consider soda a candy so I also like ramune. Less sugar than a standard Coca-Cola or the like. Lots of fruit flavors. Small bottle. Fun shape. (Bought a fukumaneki neko (lucky cat) one the other day, couldn’t resist). What’s not to like?
My parents get japanese candy assortments for me as birthday gifts sometimes so I’ve had dozens of different types and I’ve pretty much liked them all. The commercial ones are all pretty standard stuff. The only one that was “meh” for me that I can remember was those botan rice candies.
Oh man, now I want that. Do I have to go to Japan to get one?
I love the durian-flavored coconut candy of Viet Nam. I’m also fond of the banana candy (kẹo chuối), and kẹo kéo, a sort of soft taffy mixed with peanuts.
In England, I remember liking acid drops, but mostly just because of the name.
I enjoy Tamarind candy. A Dutch/Indonesian coworker introduced me to it.
Does baklava count? I like halvah, but a little goes a long way.
We were gifted with some Japanese wrapped candies recently. I didn’t try one after the look on my daughter’s face. We’re just hoping it was seaweed flavor.
I still buy Botan rice candy sometimes, out of nostalgia for childhood visits to Chinatown in Chicago.
I also like lavender pastilles, with the anise seed in the middle. Those are a little exotic, I guess.
The botan rice candy, I remember when it had a little toy in the box We used to get it at an asian grocery store in Rochester NY back in the 1970s.
We go to an asian grocery store about once a month for cooking ingredients, and will pick up assorted different stuff that looks interesting [mrAru has a serious sweet tooth. I will generally try a tiny nibble.] We have tried various flavors of pocky, these little thimble sized jellies, little fruit things but not in zero calorie, dried haw, adzuki bean jelly, in all 5 flavors! Sesame candies, pumpkin seed candies, assorted fruits nuts and flakes of all sorts.
And I like musk candy :smack:
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