Interesting packaging strikes again! We've got cartoon chickens, a weird safari-ready mustachioed man with a glove-on a stick? There's a tiny chef, and the promise that these tiny little snacks will look like itty bitty fried chicken legs. How could I resist?
I tossed these into my cart the second I saw them, were they worthy of being purchased? We shall see...
Even though I'm not a big coffee drinker, I do like a little coffee ice cream once and a while, so why not try it in Bingsu form?
This container is several months old. I intended to review it right away, but it got wedged behind a few other things in my freezer and I completely forgot about it until I bought that strawberry version in New York. Now that I'm home, busting through my stash like a food blogging pro, it's time to finally try this frozen treat!
Lonely God snacks? Yup! Lonely God snacks! There is a tiny man-baby-cherub-fairy-angel on the front, and it says "Lonely God." How could I NOT buy this?
They look like Bugles, but they're honey butter flavored, and they're Korean. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm excited. (Even though I'm still haunted by Pringles attempt at using this flavor combination to produce these nightmare inducing Honey Butter Stix.)
Honey Butter has become a hugely popular flavor combination for junk food in Korea. These snacks are rich and creamy, but salty, and they have a touch of honeyed sweetness, often paired with a crispy crunchy texture. Sounds great to me! This combination of sweet and savory isn't new, but I've never seen a product with that flavor profile become this popular! Was it effective K-pop viral marketing? Or does this stuff really taste as amazing as everyone says it does? Let's find out!
Yesterday was actually Black Day, and I totally missed the opportunity to post these! Oh well, at least I can post them now.
If any of you watch anime or read manga, you might have heard about White Day, which is a reactionary holiday to Valentine's Day. Typically, Valentine's Day in Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries, is a holiday where men receive candy/chocolate from the women in their lives as a sign of friendship, appreciation, or love. One month later, on March 14th, there is a response-style holiday called White Day, where the men who received gifts on Valentine's Day return the favor and give candy and gifts (typically white chocolate) as a way of saying thank you (or returning their feelings and appreciation). Makes sense right? It's pretty straight forward, but what if you didn't get any gifts on either holiday? Well that is where Black Day comes in.
I found another one of the 'Super" candies by Nobel in my area, and this time it's a rare one! Well, rare for New Jersey anyway. I can find Super Lemon in every Asian convenience store, and occasionally I see Super Cola, but Super Umeboshi? Not so much.
In case you didn't know, umeboshi are salted picked plums. They are often shown in bento boxes, on top of a bed of rice, or in the center of an onigiri. I had seen them in popular manga and anime, so my sister and I bought some a few years ago to try it for ourselves. I tried the real-deal, and let me tell you, it's a bold flavor! I actually liked it, but my sister wasn't much of a fan. I'm not sure how popular it in Asia, but I can't see a candy flavored like a salty pickled plum selling all that well here in the states. Anyway, I found it at H-Mart, and it was the last bag too.
Adorable little panda shaped cookies covered in chocolate? How could I resist? When I saw these in the aisle, the chocolate box immediately went into my handcart, but I waxed and waned over the strawberry ones. Normally I avoid strawberry flavored chocolates at H-mart and the Asian Food Market, the artificial strawberry that Asian chocolates like to use just doesn't appeal to me. I love real fresh strawberries, but strawberry Pocky? No thank you. I came to the conclusion that I just couldn't give up the opportunity to photograph pink panda cookies, they'd be so cute! Into the cart they went, and they sat in my to-be-reviewed pile for... well, an embarrassingly long time.
To help me knock out my stash a bit faster, I'll be reviewing both flavors today, so this post will be a bit photo-heavy. (You've been warned.)
More fish-shaped sweets! The H-Mart in Cherry Hill, New Jersey has fairly large freezer section filled with all kinds of ice creams and desserts (well it's large when compared to Asian Food Market's itty bitty freezer aisle), and during our last trip to H-mart, my boyfriend and I picked up a few different flavors of these Taiyaki-Ice Waffles.
