I found these chips over at the Wahiawa Tamura's while I was hanging out in the Asian aisle. I was looking for Korean tea and ramyeon. The Asian aisle is quickly becoming one of my favorites in any store. You can always find goodies for cheap. This Tamura's only had two Korean snacks, the other was a bag of roasted chestnuts. I told myself that I would pick up the bag of chestnuts closer to the holidays. Thus, I settled on the Tako Chips made by Nong Shim. It's a brightly pink colored bag with a pink octopus in goggles and snorkel. Cute.
Looking to change it up as far as movie snacks go, I took this into the movie Burlesque with a friend. When I opened the bag, she said it was really smelly. Ooops. Yeah, I probably should have thought about whether it would be distracting to others. Haha. I did not think it smelled of octopus-ish all that much, but I guess when you're with someone who really hasn't been around many Asian things the smell could be more intense for them. The chip was bite-sized and shaped like a octopus, fish, bomb, or vase, depending on the way I held it. And there were ridges on it, it looked like fingerprints. As far as the taste, the flavor of octopus was mild. And it reminded me of shrimp stick-shaped chips.
Overall, I would say the chips were meh. But it was only $0.84, so that was a steal on experiencing some new Korean stuff.
Grade: C-
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