Now here are two web sites that a compulsive consumer of all manner of Asian snacks can really use, Sinosplice's Junk Food Review and Junk Food Review 2. To think that this random walk through various kinds of Chinese snacks has been around for more than a year without showing up on my radar boggles the mind.The intrepid John and Wilson work their way through a dozen snacks and beverages rating them either thumbs up or thumbs down. The items range from Salami, a jerky-type product that neither like to Peppermint Plums, a preserved plum product that combines sour, sweet and minty and draws raves from both. SSS Carrot Juice gets a unanimous pan, with John calling it "Nasty, nasty, nasty."
I'm not sure where in China these two did their first tastings, but Junk Food Review 2 was done in Taipei. This time around the boys cover 10 items. My favorite thumbs-down items were Recover snack bars, a Powerbar type item that John calls "shortbread gone wrong" and dried juruo, which Wilson likens to chewing on peppery dead skin. The boys sometimes disagree. President Papaya Milk draws a rave from Wilson, but John hated it. [via Serious Eats]
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12-14-2006 @ 7:02AM
ak said...
They tried Mister Potato!. Cheaper than Pringles, tastes good too (except for the "Original Taste", its really plain-potato-original). Its actually a Malaysian product.
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12-14-2006 @ 10:08AM
Rhea said...
Great websites! I work near Chinatown in Boston but am hesitant to try some of the stuff in the grocery stores. This will help me a lot.
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