Japanese Snack Reviews

The site for the "giza giza" (ridged) potato chips that Calbee makes encourages you to enjoy the chips slowly one by one. I do...

I'm continuing my brisk jaunt through the box of snacks ZenPop sent me with two of the salted potato snacks. Besides being made of ...

My sister-in-law is currently in Madrid visiting family. She hasn't been able to upload many pictures because of her crummy internet...

As children, we are often admonished for our limited palates and our squeamishness about trying new foods. The old "eat your vegeta...

Picture from Calbee. Mini Stop convenience stores is offering this abomination before the potato gods for a limited time. The concept ...

My husband and I found these chips at an Indian market. I wasn't there for potato chips. In fact, I was there to buy loose leaf tea ...

The last time I tried consumer-level chocolate-covered potato chip snacks , it was a disaster, so I was concerned that these might be sca...

Americans are familiar with Smokey the Bear . He's the one that said, " give a hoot, don't pollute ." No, no, that wa...

The earthquake has had some interesting and unusual consequences, and I'm pretty sure that this particular bag of chips is one of them....

I've never "got" the appeal of Pringles. If you are so incredibly anal retentive or compulsive that you'd rather eat a pr...

Way back when I started this blog, I reviewed some low rent chocolate-covered potato chip snacks . In that post, I mentioned that students ...

I've read that Japanese beer makers are targeting female customers more because they are a demographic which hasn't yet been thoroug...

When I reviewed the yuzu soy sauce chips , the great and powerful Marvo from The Impulsive Buy wondered in the comments about soy sauce f...

If you spend any reasonable amount of time in Japan, you'll notice that flavors come in and out of fashion. Some flavors stay after thei...

Truth in advertising clearly is not an issue in Japan. Take this "potato snack". The first three ingredients are flour, oil, and s...

Sour cream isn't a big deal in Japan. They're good with the cream, as is evidenced by a variety of Japanese dishes made with cream l...

There are a great many things that the Japanese have taken and adapted to suit their tastes which have presented an equally good, but unique...

I like hot (as in spicy) food so these chips appeal to me more so than the average bland, plain chip. They're also the only regularly-av...