Tired of the same old Doritos, Pringles, Lays and Fritos? Well in Japan though they have Pringles and Doritos it seems like they come out with a couple new flavors of chips every few weeks. It’s like flavor of the month. They have regular plain potato chips and you can find Doritos here and there but or example you can also get "Funky Soy Sauce Pringles"
Here are a few I picked up just in the last 2 weeks.
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It should have occured to me earlier but somebody pointed out to me the "uma" in "Uma Shio Ramen" is not Uma as in Horse it's uma as in Umai (delicious)
Still, they do eat horse here so it was not hard to believe.
I thought I was the only non-Japanese who loved Japanese potato chips. All of my friends gag even when I mention the flavors.
Anyway, when I went back to Tokyo for a visit this past March I did my best to search out the new flavors. My favorite was definitely the takoyaki mayonnaise puffs. Actually, all of the ones with mayo were great.
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This isn’t that important (I’m just being picky), but I believe in the first example “potaaju” is supposed to represent the French word “potage”, meaning a chowder or soup.
since I don’t know French I didn’t know the word but I assumed it was something like that.
There is no “BBQ” flavor of potato chips here, it’s instead called コンソメ(konsome, like as in “beef consomme”).
“Karl” is one of the most famous snack characters – check out the
official page at < “>http://open.meiji.co.jp/sweets/snack/karl/index2.html>
I’m pretty sure the “Doza” on the bag is a stylized “Piza”. And of course “Don Takosu” is the same honorific as “Don Quixote”.
I’ll have to look for that ninniku ramen flavor – that does sound good!
There are plenty of BBQ flavor in my area. Consumme is soup broth flavored, not quite the same. This summer they have Ume flavored. Those ROCK!
Dos Tacos should be Don Tacos. It’s pretty close.
Also Doza Poteto should be Pizza Poteto. “pi” in katakana looks like hiragana “to”.
So how was that “nankotsu aji”? Must be like yakitori, isn’t it?
I’d really like to try consomme-flavored chips, but I can’t exactly afford to go to Japan to get them. Is there any place at all in the United States (esp. in California) that I could go to to buy them, or order online somewhere?
Oop, nevermind, I found some consomme-flavored potato chips in a grocery store in Japantown, San Francisco. Woot!
How can I purchase these???
Do you know where I can buy theseonline ?
I came on here looking judt for these chips, i spent 2 years in japan and these chips are what i miss the most about japan. The pizza and the french onion are out of this world!!
sorry if this has already been answered but what exactly are consomme flavoured chips?
i saw them in death note <3
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Mmmmmm, Corn Potage chips. I miss those so much!
I saw it in Death Note the movie and i was wondering too lol.