We took our role as snacking scouts quite seriously.

More delicious (and not so delicious) snacks to report.

Novelty Snack: Salted broad beans
Description: Dried and salted beans
Tastes Like: Nothing special… an uninteresting texture with an aftertaste of salt
Verdict: Thumbs neutral.

Novelty Snack: Green pepper flavored potato chips
Description: Potato chips covered in pepper flavored powder
Tastes Like: Mildly spicey potato chips
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Custard Cake
Description: Custard filled sponge cake
Tastes Like: Couldn’t tell you… Molly finished this one off pretty quickly despite not liking it too much
Verdict: Thumbs down!

Novelty Snack: Street Toast
Description: A thick piece of bread or cake covered in the toppings of your choice
Tastes Like: Sweetness. One half was vanilla with raisins while the other half was chocolate and sprinkles. On top of that was sweetmilk (or some such milky substance).
Verdict: Thumbs up! (but consume in moderation or beware of a tummy ache)

Novelty Snack: Strawberry flavored balls
Description: Like a strawberry flavored whopper
Tastes Like: Don’t remember exactly so I’m going to say like a strawberry flavored whopper
Verdict: Thumbs neutral.

Novelty Snack: Jack and Jill brand chips
Description: Cheese potato chips
Tastes Like: Not too crispy chips
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Pretz
Description: Thin breadsticks in a variety of flavors, this package is pizza
Tastes Like: Crunchy breadsticks with a vague pepperoni flavor
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Melon Seeds
Description: Roasted and salted watermelon seeds
Tastes Like: sunflower seeds
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Still a few more treats to share…

xo, jill

Oh, delicious.

Thailand is a lush country full of sandy beaches, smiling people, and best of all… novelty snacks! Molly and I were eager to test out as many new treats as possible. Here are our findings:

Market Snacks

Novelty Snack: Chocolate Milkshake… of sorts.
Description: A milky and slightly grainy milkshake.
Tastes Like: A milkshake heavier on the milk than the shake, chocolatey enough
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Spiral Potato on a Stick (don’t remember the proper name)
Description: A potato curled and stretched out on a stick, covered in a powder that’s supposed to taste like cheese
Tastes Like: Nothing much… bland potato and tasteless powder
Verdict: Thumbs up! (I’ll eat anything with potatoes!)

Novelty Snack: Meat on a stick
Description: Meat on a stick
Tastes Like: Meat on a stick
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Sweet Thai Tacos (We named these ones ourselves.)
Description: Marshmallow and orange colored something in a wafer like shell
Tastes Like: Marshmallow inside a fortune cookie
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Fried Bananas
Description: Fried banana on a stick
Tastes Like: A banana that has been fried on a stick
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Potato Snack with Teriyaki Sauce
Description: Curly potato chips with a packet of teriyaki sauce you eat them with
Tastes Like: Blandish potato crisps with a sticky sweet sauce that is better to squeeze onto each chip instead of pouring it into the bag
Verdict: Thumbs neutral.

Novelty Snack: Dried mango
Description: Dried strips of mango
Tastes Like: Grossness
Verdict: Thumbs down down down!

Novelty Snack: Sweet Corn Dutch Pancake (That’s the closest approximation I could think of…)
Description: Sweet corn and coconut milk in a little pancake like shell
Tastes Like: Yummy sweet and gooey-ness with little bits of corn, very messy to eat but delicious
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Cremini
Descirption: Chocolate wrapped in a wafer
Tastes Like: Those chocolate wafer sticks with a cream filling but stale and smaller
Verdict: Thumbs neutral.

Novelty Snack: Ice cream
Description: Ice cream from a little bicycle cart shaped like a stick of butter
Tastes Like: Smooth deliciousness, mine was strawberry and Mol’s was coconut
Verdict: Thumbs up!

More snacks to come!

xo, jill