Japanese Kat

I was surprised to see that Sakana-kun got his very own brand of snack chips. If you don’t know who Sakana-kun is, watch this clip first. It’s how I first came to know of him. So yeah, anyways, onto the chips!

Sakana-kun Chips

The official flavor is “Salted Seaweed”, but it also contains bits of Shrimp and Cod as you can see from Sakana-kun’s fine drawings on the bag.

When I first opened the bag, I got a large whiff of fish smells, but that was only at first. The chips themselves don’t really smell “fishy”, but rather, they just smell like salted chips.

The chips

These are also put out by “Baby Star”, so they are made of the same stuff that the Gyouza Chips were. They didn’t really taste anything like fish, which is good or bad depending on your preferences. It tasted exactly how they advertised it: Salty seaweed. The flavor was simple that of a lightly salted chip with a hint of seaweed, which taste kind of salty themselves. So, if you don’t like your snacks smelling and tasting like the sea, you have nothing to fear here. These chips are about as safe and delightful as Saka-kun himself.

I still really want his hat.

There’s a snack in Japan called, simply, “Caramel Corn”, and it’s a cross between actual caramel corn and a cheeto. It’s cheeto-shaped, but is very light and crispy. The normal flavor is, of course, caramel, but there’s always new flavors coming out. There are two special flavors that just came out for the summer: Vanilla Shake and Cola.

Vanilla Shake and Cola

The vanilla shake ones taste like a vanilla version of the caramel corn, and that’s very good. I remember the vanilla bean KitKats being one of my all-time favorites. It has a hint of the standard Japanese “milk” flavor in there, but not enough to make it tase much like a shake. It’s fine as it is as a vanilla-flavored snack.

The cola ones are a bit more interesting. They have a powder on them that instantly dissolves as soon as it touches your tongue, and it does a really good job of replicating the feeling of carbonated drinks as you drink them. I’ve given samples to a whole bunch of people over the past couple of days, and every single one of them has had the same “Whoah!” surprised reaction upon tasting them, myself included. The flavor is also pretty spot on. If I had to choose, I would say that it tastes close to Coca-Cola if you were to get it from a fountain machine. The flavor itself is very sweet and, combined with the carbonated effect, does a really good job of tasting like cola. This is something I didn’t expect from a “dry” snack.