Snacks from around the World 2

I'm indeed privileged to have received so many snacks from around the world from friends and family that I wasn't able to fit them all in one blog post.  Well, I could...but it would be a very long read.  So, here comes snacks from around the world, part two! ;)

#1 - Godiva Assorted Classic Truffles

Chocolates are always a good gift to receive...more so if they're Godiva chocolates of individually wrapped Belgian masterpieces in dark, milk and white chocolate truffles.

#2 - Irvins Salted Egg Potato Chips

#AbsolutelyGood and #DangerouslyAddictive but #ExorbitantlyExpensive at S$16 (big, 230g) or S$8 (small, 105g) are these made-in-Singapore salted egg potato chips.  The question is...would you be willing to pay about RM25 for a small bag of potato chips? ^_*

#3 - Archer Farms Deluxe Roasted Mixed Nuts

You have the unsalted variety (that's good for health)...

.....or one with sea salt.  Of course, the salted variety tastes better. ^_~  I usually give them away as my family isn't into nuts.

#4 - Jenny Bakery's Butter Cookies


Another gift from a sister-in-law were these 4mix butter cookies from Hong Kong...and they were absolutely buttery, flaky and melt-in-your-mouth delicious.


I like the coffee-flavoured ones the most.

#5 - Hershey's Chocolates

Hershey's American collection of truffles, nut clusters, caramels and other fine confections in assorted milk and dark chocolate is a pot of gold indeed.

#6 - Almond Nut-Thins

These wheat and gluten-free nut & rice cracker snacks from Sacramento (US) are sugar-free and have no trans or saturated fat for guilt-free snacking! ;P

#7 - Irvins Salted Egg Fish Skin


Equally as addictive as the salted egg potato chips (of the same brand) is this salted egg fish skin.  Much crispier but sweeter too, these crispy morsels of delight should not be missed if you're a die-hard salted egg fan! ^.^

#8 - Byron Bay's Dotty Cookies

Touted as Australia's original cafe cookies, these cookies were originally baked in an old farmhouse stove in the hills of the Byron Bay hinterland.

These bite sized cookies are studded with milk chocolate chunks and topped with colourful button-shaped chocolate (much like M&M's).

#9 - Momiji Manju

These little maple leaf-shaped cakes from Japan are really nice and soft.  The fillings are absolutely delicious and they come in many flavours. ^o^

#10 - Godiva Mousse Truffles

These 'heaven in a bite' mousse truffles comprise individual flavours of dark chocolate vanilla, milk chocolate, strawberry, lemon, peach and cafe au lait.

#11 - Korea Haitai Toppoki Snacks

Some kind of Korean rice cake cracker (shaped almost like penne pasta) that has a nice crunch with a sticky-sweet texture but lacking in savouriness.  The colour looks fiery but it isn't spicy at all.

#12 - Bangkok Seaweed Cookies

These are not your typical flour-and-butter cookies but rice cookies from Bangkok flavoured with seaweed for a nice, savoury crisp.

#13 - Furikake

Does this even qualify as a snack?  A great export from Japan...furikake is pretty versatile in that you can sprinkle it on rice, eggs, meat, instant noodles, tofu, vegetables, poke bowls or just about anything you can think of.  Well, if you sprinkle it directly into your mouth...that qualifies as a snack, right? :D

#14 - Indomie Salted Egg Curly Fried Noodles

Indomie brand of instant noodles from Indonesia is pretty well-known in the market (available from our supermarkets too).  But this one, bought from Indonesia directly, is a salted egg flavour which I've not seen sold here (or are they?).  Salted egg is so in demand nowadays that every entrepreneur is jumping on the bandwagon to include it almost everything, so why not instant noodles, right?  But this one missed the mark completely. :(

#15 - Lindt's Chocolates

From master Swiss chocolatier (since 1845) Lindt & Sprungli comes this creme brulee filling encased in the finest Lindt milk chocolate that tastes as decadent as it sounds.

Or how about a mint coulis enrobed in dark chocolate instead?

#16 - Sake Kit Kat


This Kit Kat from Japan showcases the elegant taste of sake (provided you love to drink sake) wrapped in the gentle sweetness of a white chocolate-coated wafer.


As soon as you open it, you get a whiff of sake (or alcohol to me).  Probably appeal to sake drinkers but an acquired taste for me since I have never drunk sake before (and, after this, I don't think I will if it tastes anything like this). >_<

#17 - Irvins Salted Egg Potato Chips (Hot Bomb)


Similar to the original salted egg potato chips which hails from Singapore, this is as advertised...it's a hot bomb indeed (the heat hits you at the back of the throat as you eat more).  For those who subscribe to the motto "if it's not spiced, it's not nice" will surely favour this over the original version...but for some of us, it may be too hot to handle.

So, thank you again to all my 'snack givers'.....hey, if you continue to keep this up, there may possibly be enough 'material' for part three...hihihi! ^_~