There's a Crown Kicker bar, a Haitai Freetime bar, and a Nongshim Banana Kick puffs.
First up are these Banana Kick puff chips. Opening the bag, I got that artificial banana flavor you'd get from that banana Runts candy. And I don't normally like those, but these are interesting. Theresa got more of a regular banana chip flavor.
Overall a tasty snack.
Next is this Haitai Freetime bar. Now when we were tasting this, I had no idea what the name of this was. The package was saying that inside is chocolate, cacao (not sure that's different from chocolate), and peanut.
It was a surprise then when I cut it open and found this layer of thick nougat. And that almost looks like the thinnest layer of caramel.
Biting into it, yeah, that nougat was not fluffy. Jacob thought it had the texture of a protein bar. The kids like just about anything. The rest of us weren't the biggest fans.
Lastly there's the Coach Kicker Bar. It was founded in 1979. That logo looks familiar.
And the wafer bar looks like a Kit Kat Big Kat. The regular Kit Kat was created in 1935, but the Big Kat (aka Kit Kat Chunky) with 4 and 5 layers was introduced in 1999. So which really came first?
A look at the Big Kat.
So going into it, I thought it was going to taste like a Kit Kat. It did not.
The chocolate was not very sweet, but it also wasn't a dark chocolate either. It still had a creamy feel, but was unexpected. Between the 3 adults, we prefer a Kit Kat.
So it was three interesting Korean snacks we tried. I think my favorite out of all of them was the Banana Kick puff chips. They were certainly unique and not like anything I've tried before.
Those Banana Kick Puff chips are really yellow...looks like a yellow version of cheese puffs. Ian's thumbs up on the Freetime bar stood in stark contrast to his facial expression :-) Thought the Kicker bar would taste the best, but it didn't look very "wafer-like" after it was cut open...guess Kit Kat still wins out. Interesting snacks...always fun to see the packaging from all the foreign countries (some foreigner is probably thinking the same thing when "taste-testing" and viewing our U.S. snacks!) EOM
ReplyDeleteTasting other countries snacks is always fun when we're traveling.
ReplyDeleteI thought I would like the KicKer bar would be a little better too. Oh well. At least we have Kit Kats here in the US. Japan has us all beat on Kit Kat varieties. I feel like it's almost time to order another variety pack on eBay with lots of different flavors.