The contents of this blog are matters of opinion formed over one more visits. There has been some artistry applied and metaphors and similes should not necessarily be taken literally. All meals are independently paid for - the author has no conflicts of interest to disclose.
These were actually good. The outer layer of cake was moist and chocolatey, though not too sweet – almost like a flat, less dense and less rich brownie.
The item is not advertised as dark chocolate, but I think is dark in the sense that most East Asian snacks just aren’t that sweet, which is a good thing.
The creamy ‘salted egg’ filling was hard to appreciate as a flavour, so if I were really keen on this dimension of the snack I’d stay away, but as a generic chocolate brownie-type snack it’s a win for me.
好丽友咸蛋黄流心派 Orion Salted Egg Yolk Lava Pie 6920907833379
I picked up a packet of these Mibazi Strawberry Black Tea Flavour Sablé Sandwich Cookies from our local Asian grocery store, I think for around $4. The photo, with its microscope level detail of the fruity looking filling, was promising a lot, so I entered into this agreement with perhaps over heightened expectations.
The sable sandwich cookie component was quite good. The biscuits were rich and buttery. The filling however was quite different to what was pictured. Instead of having fruit throughout the core, the majority of the filling was this sweet, caramelly, brown mixture, with a hard consistency, similar to a hard toffee. Whilst perhaps I could imagine a scent of tea, I couldn’t say that it definitely wasn’t due to being incepted by the word tea in the name of the product, and without prompting I probably wouldn’t have picked it.
I don’t think I’d get it again, but at least now I know the word sablé
米芭滋 沙不列夹心饼干 Mibazi Strawberry Black Tea Flavour Sablé Sandwich Cookies 6978362741876
Around 4 years ago, I had a delicious fried prawn head snack from the Korean grocer in Strathfield Plaza. It was crispy, crunchy and umami. Not getting the name nor the photo of this snack was one of the regrets of my life, and though I suspect it was from Jung Sae Woo, I have never again seen it for sale.
Today I came across what appeared to be a similar snack at a local Chinese grocer. This packet of deep fried spicy shrimp was only around $2, and so relatively low risk to try. Unfortunately they ended up being not very similar to what I remember of the Korean shrimp. These Chinese spicy shrimp were not just the head but the full animal.
They had a sticky exterior coating which meant that they were a bit softer rather than truly crispy. The stickiness of the coating made the snack seem sweet even though the flavour of it wasn’t particularly sweet – more of a spicy with a little bit of numbing and a bitter aftertaste
I didn’t really enjoy these as much as I had hoped, although my orange cat did enjoy one (and he will probably therefore die).
One of the important functions of this site is for me to remember what I don’t want to eat again, and this Samlip custard cream soboro bread bun was particularly bad and uninspiring.
It featured a semi-pineapple bun like exterior, however was damp and soft and not at all crispy or craggly.
The bread had a slightly bitter flavour and the custard filling was in reality much less substantial than what was pictured on the packaging.
I truly could not recommend this. Ever. Please avoid it.
This beef jerky was very thin and crispy, with a natural-tasting beef flavour, a little salt, but not much else in terms of seasoning – generally flavoured in more of a Western style compared to most Chinese jerkies. Allegedly spicy but imperceptibly so.
The thinness, allegedly at 1mm a slight, I thought was a bit overboard, in that it actually became sharp enough to be uncomfortable when poking the oral mucosa.
