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Sanritsu Genji Pie
What is a Genji Pie. Looks familiar? Yes, if you turn it upside down, it is a palmier. I like palmiers and I have wrote about a few nice ones before here and here. These Genji pie is marketed as a “heart-warming” pie because of it’s shape. Well, I don’t really care if it looks …
Waza Sakiika Natori / Dried Soft Squid
The dried squid is a popular snack in East and South-East Asia. It is normally chewy and has a relative strong fishy taste to it. Some variations in South-East Asia is spicy and some are glazed with a sticky coating of caramel. This is the Japanese variety, which is slightly less chewy and more bland. …
Futaba Cookie Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate cookies, vanilla and ice cream. What could possibly go wrong? Althought it sounds like a sure-win recipe, the problem is that the customer’s expectations is set sky high. Chocolate cookie is nice. Vanilla is nice. Ice cream is heaven. Put all 3 together than you get heaven in heaven! That is where the problem …
Tasting Your Boyfriend / Orange Potato Chips
These days, chips or crisps comes in many exotic flavours: Tako Octopus, Red Caviar, Spicy Bloody Mary, etc. Most of these are wild flavours that are designed to catch your eyes and imagination. This trend is actually getting a bit boring as they are no longer shocking. Hence, I was very surprised to find this …
Tarami Konnyaku Jelly
Grapple or Apprape? Konnyaku jelly is made of a plant amorphophallus konjac, native to Asia Pacific. Jelly can also be made from animal based gelatin or algae based agar-agar. For this review, I have two packets of Tarami fruit flavoured konnyaku jelly. One is apple flavoured and the other one grape flavoured. I opened both, …
Donki Pure Apple Juice
The rivers are flowing with juice. Fruits are seasonal. When an apple tree bears fruits, it bears so many fruits that it’s impossible to consume before it rots. When there’s none, there’s none. What do you do? Well, you can give some to friends and relatives. But chances are that they will also have a …
Healthy Club Chocolate Wafer
Chocolate wafer that breaks the formula. As a food manufacturer, one of the safest bet is to add chocolate to something crunchy. Like wafers. The sweetness of the chocolate and crunchiness of the wafer works well on any palate. Which makes reviewing the Healthy Club chocolate wafer a simple thing. It looks nice. So it …
