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A little bit of Japanish – Asian Snack Challenge!

May 4, 2010 Carly Findlay 13 Comments

We have three weeks left of the Asian Snack Challenge. Tonight’s one was successful.

My friend saw some pocky-like vanilla dipsticks.
‘Mmm a vanilla dipstick. That’s me’, he said.

We saw many interesting things, again. I am more and more drawn to things that look cute, but are unidentifiable – with little English description on the packaging.

These are chip-like snacks with sushi-like images on the packaging. I bet they look nothing like the packaging suggests.

This is green pumpkin juice. After last time’s pumpkin seed debacle, my friend was not touching this drink.

This is something with a frog on. I don’t know?

This is maybe apple juice? Maybe tomato juice?

These are mini icecream cone looking sweets.

This is a cat that likes pineapple.

We made our choices.

My friend bought these delights. I love his fusion food direction.

Ola! Jack and Jill Piattos and orange sangararia! Ola!

We termed his snack ‘A little bit of Japanish’! Japanese crossed with Spanish.

I thought his choices were a little boring at first. After all, he did just pick a packet of potato chips of the shelf without much consideration or commentary. But he reminded me ‘I went Japanish’.

Due to me eating a ridiculous amount of junk food before and during uni today, clearly too disgusting to spell out in separate words – onesmallboxofpotatomashies,threekfcdrumsticks,bottleofcoke,lordofthefrieswithcheeseandgravy -I was not up for much food at the Asian Snack Challenge tonight.

I was drawn to the cute, impractical dust collecting toys.

A chicken, as featured in Get that sausage!

This thing here is a duck with a plant stem in its head. The stem moves in the light.

‘Flip Flap is a cute flower bud which moves by light. Please grow your Flip Flap in your mind and bloom your own special flower. Please do not give water’.

And some Krispy Kreme-esque chips.

Disappointingly, but predictably, the chips looked and tasted nothing like Krispy Kreme donuts.

They tasted like sweet peanut flavoured popcorn.

I ate three of them, dropped one on the floor, and shared one with Plastic Chicken.

Plastic Chicken both makes a squeak, and has eggs inside its bum. I will need to unwrap the eggs so I can make it lay.

As the train pulled into North Melbourne station, we did a bit of a pantomime with Plastic Chicken, and we were reminded of that other chicken on video incident. Boris the Chicken, a video made by the North Melbourne Football Club. Coincidence?

Here is our pantomime. Much more g-rated.

Plastic Chicken ate a Jack and Jill Piatto and said ‘mmmm cheesy, mmm Japanish’.




And just like in all other Asian Snack Challenges, we laughed and laughed.

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Comments

  1. Cotton Socks says

    May 5, 2010 at 12:04 am

    oh my lordy.
    the photos with the chicken with snack in mouth are so funny.
    its all in his weird little eyes.
    and he poops eggs.
    how funny!
    hahahahah
    i love asian snacks.
    they are much more creative than our snacks.

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  2. nitewriting says

    May 5, 2010 at 1:46 am

    umm.. that chicken is on drugs.

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  3. Chiyomi says

    May 5, 2010 at 5:15 am

    You are still in Australia, right? How come you have so many Japanese lollies!? I miss them!
    The frog one is a candy bag with a Japanese cartoon on, called Keroro (croaking sound) Sergeant. Don't worry, it does not contain any frong…..

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  4. magicdarts says

    May 5, 2010 at 8:41 am

    the plastic chicken – a true mark of quality!!

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  5. M says

    May 5, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    ahaha! what a funny chicken! I like Qoo, they make nice peach juices too. I like the idea that you guys are trying something unfamiliar and having a ball.

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  6. missklicious says

    May 5, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    HAHAHA Hilarious. I love your asian snack challenges, they get funnier each time.

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  7. Carly Findlay says

    May 5, 2010 at 7:42 pm

    Hahah thanks everyone, glad you enjoy them. I really have to work on the text to go with the pictures!

    Chiyomi – yes, I'm still in Australia but in Melbourne now. There are many Asian grocers around and the one we go to is really large. Thanks for the explanation about the frog. Croak!

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  8. Morellocherry says

    May 5, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    thank you so much for the kind comment and follow on my blog, it means a lot! im looking forward to more of your posts also as i now follow you too 🙂

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  9. Ms Curious @ CCM says

    May 6, 2010 at 1:19 am

    What a fun challenge Carly! Love reading about it and the pictures with the chicken are priceless!

    The "cat that likes pineapple" is Doraemon and he was (and still is) a big hit in Japan. His favourite food is actually Dorayaki (Japanese Red Bean Cake).

    This post is making me hungry …

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  10. daisychain says

    May 6, 2010 at 4:00 am

    there are so many things I want to try in this post!

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  11. miss_aimes says

    May 6, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    That chicken if AWESOME. Nothing more to be said!

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  12. Anonymous says

    December 17, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    Piattos is from the Philippines. There is far more to Asia than Japan.

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  13. Heidi - Apples Under My Bed says

    April 15, 2012 at 10:42 pm

    My goodness that chicken is going to haunt me, Carly!! :O creeeeeepy. Love it.
    Heidi xo

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