Calbee Curry Flavoured Chips: Review

Tonight, i'd like to share my thoughts on these Calbee Chipes: Curry flavor.

 



 

These were made in Hong Kong as opposed to what most people associate flavored calbee chips to be from (Japan). As with most chips from any brand, it is filled with air to hold freshness and once opened , the bag is only about half way full.

After opening the bag, there was a definite curry smell to it, mainly of what reminds me of curry powder (as opposed to say thai red curry, etc).

 

 

taste wise, I will have to honestly say that I am kind of disappointed. I was hoping for a strong intense curry flavor, or at least around the same level as some of the Japanese curried snacks i've had. I even had my mom try it and she did not like this at all. I asked her if it was the curry flavor but she said that it just tasted bad to her and would never repurchase it again. I would probably not repurchase this item again either and rather buy heartier snacks with curry flavor. I feel that the chip size and texture (being so thin and all) does not fit well with this flavor either.

 

 

Bacon flavored chips!?

Quick Snack Post on this interesting product.. Pop Up Bacon Flavored Crips

 

 

 

This product I found in Canada at an Asian market and is in Hong Kong.

At first bite, there is definitely a bacon flavor, it almost reminds of bacon popcorn or even bacon salt.

As you can see from the picture above, the crips are shaped and colored to look like fried bacon with a whole lot of fat. The texture is like pork rinds/chicarrones?sp? which makes sense if this is an entirely pig/pork type of product.

 

I'd say this isn't for the faint of heart, or adventurous types, or people bad with odd textures. It is almost like you are biting into fried pieces of bacon fat. My cousin was with me when we tried it and he said it does taste like bacon, but he couldn't do more than one piece.

I, however, love this type of stuff and weird/odd things and found it quite addicting.

For an Asian snack, it reminded me more of a Western snack.

 

Not bad, i'm glad I tried it, but no need to go back to Canada to purchase it again. hah

These Renkon chips are sneaky!

 

So sampling out these Renkon/Lotus root chips today and from the bag and not reading anything on it, I really thought they would be a sweet coated dried renkon chip.

 

Wrong!

 

 At the first bite of this snack it was an intense, spicy/wasabi like flavor that was salty and with a hint of bonito to it.

 

Not the flavor I was expecting. However, I will say that its not bad for a snack but I just can't eat too much of it. The flavor is a little too intense for me and there really isn't a renkon/lotus root flavor.

 

Glad I tried it, but I probably wouldn't purchase this myself if it wasn't for this being a sample.



Calbee chips: korean cuttlefish flavor

 

I must say, I've always loved the different flavor chips the calbee brand comes up with but the Hong Kong calbee that came with this one did pretty darn good! Even mi madre liked it and she's a pretty health conscious, doesn't like the junk food type of person...

 

 

The squid/ika/cuttlefish flavor wasn't overpowering at all and there was that hint if grilled flavor to it (like you see in the picture of the bag of chips).

The only down side is the amount of chips that are actually in the bag. As many of you know from opening almost any bag of chips, the amount in it is sometimes half or even less than half and the rest is just aromatic air!

 

The deep "wave" cuts in the chips make it a nice texture, almost like ruffles but imagine a bigger wave.

So sad I can only find these in Canada...