Hokkaido Rich Butter Potato Chips

These were great. I love crispy chips that has a flavor I would like and is different. They almost were like Lay's regular chips but had a more rich butter taste to them. It was like a creamy baked potato loaded upon some butter but in a crispy form. Nice for one sitting if you don't mind the 320 calories from the entire bag. The little cow face is cute too and Hokkaido is known for their agriculture. If I can find this again, I would grab a bag.

Karamucho Hot Chili Flavored Chips

These chips have a bit of a kick to them but they are good. When I opened up the bag a chili smell came from within. I was disappointing that the bag was 1/4 full of chips. It made it a good snack size that is for sure since I do not want to sit and eat tons and tons of chips. I would get these again and I am usually not a chip guy. Gosh they are crispy and taste great. I would find these and get these again!

Kanro Wasabi Grilled Seaweed

This is a small re-seal-able package with some nori or seaweed inside. It has two layers of seaweed with some wasabi placed between. The nori taste great has that strong fish taste but once you hit the wasabi it has the kick that brings you to attention. Not a big bag enough for a quick snack and it is nice that they offer a seal as a option if you want a few latter. Some of the other nori packs Ms. Noodle gets you have to eat them in one go since there is no seal, unless you have a Ziploc and put it in there. Not sure if I would get them again, I am not a nori guy, Ms. Noodle is but she is not a wasabi girl!

Glico Pretz Sweet Corn

Ms. Noodle loves these things. She has bought them almost every time at the market since she tried the first box. I know she gives the A+. These are a lot like Pocky in shape but they are not coated with chocolate or anything. There is some seasoning on the outside but they are different. Nice and crispy, it has a "corn" flavor to it. Imagine eating some corn on the cob that is slightly sweet. It is that taste in a biscuit stick. Pretty good, definitely one of the more enjoyable Pretz that Glico has produced. We will be getting this again.

Calbee Honey Butter Potato Chips

Honey and Butter chips why would you not pick this up at the store. Calbee comes out with some great flavors. They try all kinds of things in Japan with these chips kinda like Pringles trying out flavors. These are just like all their other chips but butter with a sweetness from honey I expect. Ms. Noodle enjoyed them and would like to get some more. I am about mid way, I have had other chips I enjoy more like the spicy ones. 

Karamucho Hot Chili Fries

WHAT!?!? This are like hot fries but smaller. They are so tasty! This bag is not that big and the fries are pretty small and narrow. Grab a few and put them in your mouth as you get that nice spicy kick! The old lady on the bottom of the bag is yelling for more (not sure if she really is). I want more, I may go look for hot fries after work today!

Kuai Kuai Corn Snack - condensed Milk Srawberry flavor

this is interesting. So they are shaped like Cheetos but they taste like Captain Crunch cereal. They are pretty good. The flavor is strawberry and not like a weird strawberry. They are crunchy and pretty good. Opening the bag for the first time has a nice strawberry aroma to it. I am not sure if I will get this again as it isn't usually my thing. They were not amazing just not bad. 

Koikeya Potato Sticks Karamucho Hot Chili Snacks

These are good, no doubt. They are delicious and taste like hot fries. The actual sticks are really small and eating 5-7 at one time is not that big of a bite. They are spicy but not enough to not enjoy them. Gosh I am going to stop my review so I can go eat more. I don't endorse a lot of snack foods but this one is grade A to me. Go get some...now...

Umaibo Cheese, Tonkatsu and Veggie Salad

These are crispy and crunchy in deed.  They are like cheese puffs in texture and form but have some interesting flavors. They are not bad just interesting. Nice little snack and they stuck to my teeth so I had to lick them to get all of it off. Not sure if I would go out of my way to buy these as this came in a Japan Crate but they were enjoyable for something different. 

Calbee Seaweed & Salt chips

These are not really me since I am not a big fan of the seaweed but Ms. Noodle loves eating the dried seaweed stuff. There is a lot of sodium and saturated fat like a lot of chips. Guess not the best thing in the world to have but not a lot of things are on this site. If you are a chip guy/gal and enjoy some seaweed this might be you. 

Kasugai Peanut & You

So there are peanuts in this bag FYI. There are the little balls that you see on the cover of the package but also nuts mixed in as well. There are nuts inside the balls as well. I'm guessing You is related to squid? These tasted pretty good but I could only snack on them for a little while. This is a bag of them and they are not individually wrapped. Kasugai once again brings a pretty tasty snacking item to the table or couch. 

Glico Purple Sweet Potato Sticks

Ms. Noodles likes these a lot, she says it taste a lot like sweet potato pie. Crispy biscuit sticks from Glico but not like Pocky. It isn't dipped in anything and they are hollow inside the stick. She would buy them again for sure. 

Straight from Japan Crate!

Glico Pretz Pizza flavor

Pizza, not bad at all. Pizza flavor was spot on and it was in Pretz form. Not the Pocky so this is more biscuits than anything dipped in chocolate or what not. Crispy like other Pretz but seriously it does taste like Pizza. We would get this again but we also like the Corn Potage a lot as well. Just comes down between the two at this point. 

YUMMMMM

Tohato Caramel Corn Crackers

Awww man these are good. They are little crackers that are not that big but taste a lot like caramel corn. There are a few peanuts inside the bag which was surprising so look out if you are allergic. These things are delicious. I would get these again and again. Ms. Noodles Approves.

YUMMM

Strawberry Cake - Taiwan

So I wasn't to impressed with this at all. So it was Strawberry cake, I love strawberries and like cake from time to time. Opened the box and they are individually wrapped which is great since you don't want to eat them all in one sitting?!?! Do you? Well opened a small packaged and bit right on into it. Kinda dry and not that awesome, I was expecting to much for sure. It was a decent size like double a fig newton. I wont get this again and actually we threw them out after trying them.  Nope nope nope.

Looking where to get them? Don't!

Glico Calpico Stick Assorted Pack

These Calpico Sticks have been sitting up on the shelf at the local mart for a while, never have I grabbed them off the shelf until now. Calpico makes me think of Calpis (Calpico in America) which is a favorite drink in Japan. Well it is not related since this is made from Glico, maker of Pocky! Si I picked up this assorted box to find out what is inside. As you can see up above I popped the box and though there might have been tampons in the box but of course not! You get three sticks of Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry! 

Nice box, I left the rest in the box for now as you can close it back up. Seeing bellow the sticks are like small cones with this filling. Now at the bottom of the cones chocolate is done there on all of  them. So at the bottom of the vanilla and strawberry there is chocolate, not sure why that is. The flavor and taste is just like the cream that they use of their Pocky. The strawberry is nice and creamy, after it is on your tongue it starts the melt away and the bubbles hold that flavor for you. The vanilla is great as well, never had a vanilla Pocky but I am sure that is what it would be like. Chocolate is a lot like the Pocky as well. It is just different with the crunchy cone on the outside and this nice flavor inside. I enoyed them but I think I got them for $5! That is a little over 55 cents per cone which is probably o.k. You decide!!!

Included the nutrition for you guys as well. Also here is the only link to amazon.

Matcha Pumpkin Seeds

The size of the bag provides a good number of seeds and the coating that is a powder on the seeds are green in color. Now first impression when starting to eat the seeds is that the powder coating does taste like green tea in a slight way but the seeds themselves with the powder were really dry. The taste was weird after while and it made me want to spit out what I was chewing. The size of the pumpkin seeds were large compared to what I am use to baking from Pumpkin carvings. What they could do with the packaging is have a re-seal-able bag. That is a large bag and there is no way to finish it in one go. I moved them to a Ziploc bag before I realized that they were not good.

they now made a permanent home in the trash bin.

I'm not sure of the company or brand but you can pass on them. I love Matcha all things but this is a no. 

Glico Pocky Strawberry

 

Ezaki Glico Co. is the company that is behind the Pocky snacks! Pocky was a gateway Japanese Snack for me back in the day. The headquarters are located in Osaka, Japan. Glico is derived from Glycogen, and the first candy produced was Glico Caramel. It had enough calories in it to run 300 meters which is also why the Glico 300 meter running man became the trademark. Pocky is chocolate covered pretzel sticks and the amount of flavors are vast. They took the popular Pretz sticks and decided to coat them in chocolate. They use to do this by hand until it was to much to do manually and thus it was automated.

These a great snacks and was really my first Japanese/Asian snack food that I tried back in 2006. It was my gateway snack as you can call it and probably the same for a lot of others. Pocky was a phenomenon at anime conventions I remember and people still "cosplay" as boxes of their favorite Pocky. Most people I know love the chocolate ones but I am a strawberry all the way. It is easy to get through a box of these and they are easy to eat with hands or no hands as well. The variety of flavors are outrageous and I will have more to review yet. If you are looking for simple flavor and not expensive like some of the other ones, strawberry is the way to go. It has the taste of strawberry chocolate on this pretzel stick that "snaps" in your mouth when you bight down on it. I even leave a few boxes in my desk drawer at work to snack on while writing up a report.
I recommend Strawberry Pocky for sure, grab some!!!!

Glico Pocky - Matcha Flavor

This Pocky appeared on the shelve a few months ago when I was talking about there needing to be more Matcha flavors out there. My first bite into the Pocky stick I was wondering where the flavor was. It slowly comes around this light Matcha flavor that settles on the taste buds. It doesn't have a strong flavor like the chocolate or strawberry but still nice and subtle.

      

Yamawaki Hon Chaba Karinto (Green Tea flavored Wheat Cracker)

I grabbed this bag thinking it was Green Tea flavored baked green beans just because of the shape. No, they were wheat crackers that are flavored like Matcha. I am a fan of all Matcha things, because it is so good of course. Very nice packaging as you can open it and re seal it once you had your fill. Ms. Noodle enjoys these I wasn't to hyped up on them but I still snack on them. I will probably not spend the amount I did on them again. They are nice and crunchy like a cracker with a coating of Matcha on the outside. I didn't get the rich earth taste of Matcha that I am use to so that was a downer for me. 

Couldn't find it in Amazon and I just happened to come across it in the Japanese market downtown.