Mayo Beef

As if just plane mayo isn't enough, they had to make it "mayo beef". Well, it's from the same brand as the other weird chips, so I guess this is just one more to add.

Edamame Chips

Yup. It's been a while since I've posted. This was actually from a while ago. Oh well.

This is edamame (えだ豆), which is soybeans, flavored chips. I'm not a fan of edamame, so...yea. None for me, thanks.



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Store: Lawson

[Review] Beef Kabob Pringles Chips

I was totally amazed and ready to try this when I first saw it. Beef kabob is yummy. Pringles is yummy. It should work!



But really? Not as good as expected. It was basically a toned down version of BBQ chips. And I'm not a big fan of that. This was a total let down. I know I shouldn't be expecting much, but still...

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Store: Lawson

[Review] Curry-flavored chip sticks

This is a review for the curry-flavored chip sticks I posted a couple entries earlier here.

This was a disappointment, sad to say. Well, for me at least. The curry flavor was way too spicy, and didn't really taste much like curry. It was more like lots of pepper and lots of random spices mixed together. I actually got sick after a while and couldn't finish it all. And there was also definitely no potato flavor, despite it being potato chip sticks.

::sigh::

The lesson? Not everything curry in Japan tastes good.

And I had such high hopes for this......

Curry-flavored potato sticks

This one's really got me interested. I love curry. I love potato fries. The combination just sounds delicious. One day I'll go back and get it. I swear.



How can anyone resist?!

The curry's by CoCo, a restaurant. I've been there once. It was ok. The curry was a bit too watery for my taste. But this is on chips. So it should be ok?

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Store: Lawson

Mayo chips

The absolutely most disgusting thing I could possibly come across. Seriously. I hate mayo. With a passion. And seeing it splattered all over chips? Gross.



You can't really see the picture too well, but there's basically lines of mayo running across each chip. Ugh. The Japanese sure love their mayo...

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Store: Lawson

Wasabi seaweed chips

This really doesn't surprise me anymore. I mean, you can get normal wasabi seaweed as snacks, so why not make them into chips?

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Store: Lawson

Bread chips

These were in the chips section, and have a taste like really really thinly sliced French bread with sugar and butter on top. I actually did get a bag, and it was really yummy! The only problem was, it was definitely at least 80% air... I know they do this so the chips won't be crushed or whatever, but it had more air in there than almost any other chips bag I've gotten! Even for something this delicious, it isn't worth the 140 yen for a 2/3 bag of air...



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Store: Lawson

Ramen chip fries

They're not really chips like the way we have them, in slices, but they're more like chip-fries. They're chips, but in the shape of fries...

It really is ramen flavored. Well, ramen-made-with-thick-pork-belly flavor. According to the Kanji, at least (濃厚豚骨 - noukou tonkotsu). And I guess that according to Yahoo! Japan, it was the best ramen flavor of 2007-2008. Interesting, to say the least.

Also, sorry for the blurry picture. I didn't realize it was all blurry like that when I took it...



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Store: Lawson

Wasabeef chips

Wasabeef (わさビーフ), a combination of the words "wasabi" and "beef". That says it all. It's chips, in wasabi and beef flavor. I can't even imagine how that would taste. Or that this combination could ever even exist. But, alas, it does...



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Store: Lawson

[Review] Beef tongue chips

I also got a bag of the beef tongue chips. The first impression I had of it was that there was a lot of pepper. I could smell it when I opened the bag, and I could see all the pepper sprinkled in with the chips.

The taste was definitely a lot stronger than the sakura chips, if mostly just the pepper. I could taste a bit of beef tongue every now and then. It's the BBQ kind, not the kind of beef tongue you would find in Western Chinese restaurants that come in steak-like form (which I personally find to be delicious). It was a bit too salty for my taste, and the pepper added to that effect too. I finished the bag, but by the end I felt like I was drowning in salt.

I might not eat this more than once either, but I liked it more than the sakura chips. This one at least had a discernible taste.

Beef tongue chips

I love beef tongue. It's really yummy. My mom would cook up a bunch for dinner. And it's also really good at Korean BBQ. But as chips flavor? I'm really not too sure. Maybe I should try it anyway. What do you think?


牛タン塩 - ushi tan shio

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Store: Lawson

Ninja chips

Because when you're a ninja you eat a special kind of chip. Obviously.



Bag on the left with the red ninja is sea urchin (雲丹 - uni) flavor. The things people here use to flavor snacks just baffles me.

Mr. Blue Ninja on the right is normal salt (塩 - shio) flavored. But this is Japan. And he's a ninja. It's gotta be extra special salt. Yup.

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Store: Lawson

Various Japanese apricot/plum-flavored chips

These are chips that are flavored with Japanese apricot/plum (梅 - ume). I personally really don't like them, but it goes with a lot of traditional Japanese meals. Each of these have their own variation on the taste.


Faint plum flavor (ほんのり梅味 - honnori ume aji).


Plum kelp flavor (梅こんぶ味 - ume konbu aji).


Plum tuna/bonito flavor (梅かつお味 - ume katsuo aji), on what seems to originally be an edamame-flavored snack.

I think that's right. The last two just makes me really confused about the combination of flavors...

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Store: Lawson

Sakura chips

Behold, O'Zack chips with cherry blossom flavor!

It says it uses sakura leaves. Not quite sure how that'd taste...


Cherry blossom salt flavor (桜塩味 - sakura shio aji)

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Store: Lawson

Big Bag chips

Nothing really special, but I was just greatly amused by Japan's standards of "big". Here is a picture of a "big bag" of chips next to a can of chips similar to the regular size in America.



Wait til the Japanese go to an American supermarket and see what a big bag really is!

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Store: Lawson