Siamese Snacks
The September Yum snack box was Thailand themed and continued the streak of fun boxes loaded with interesting and unusual snacks.
I’ll continue highlighting my favorite and number two as well as the worst and most unusual but I’m also going to mention a couple of the others that just need to be touched on because they were both weird and weirdly good.
So the favorite was the first one I tried from the box.
Coconut Snack Bites sounded like a can’t go wrong and that big package looked like it was going to be a two session snacking event. Alas it was a case of excess packaging but the contents were delicious. They were little round golden brown crispy treats with a nice toasted coconut flavor. Real shredded coconut that was not too sweet so you got the natural coconut taste. The package says crispy and yummy and I concur.
My number two was the Coconut Cream-O Choco Plus.
This was a five pack of two cookie sleeves so they were easy to parcel out and enjoy several times. The cookies had chocolate and coconut flavored caramel. The cookie part tasted like a regular butter cookie that had a well in the center lined with a very thin layer of caramel with coconut flavoring at the bottom and topped with chocolate. The chocolate was soft, the caramel was a bit chewy and the cookie was crumbly. All working in harmony to provide an enjoyable snack.
The worst snack was the only snack I haven’t finished from any box to date.
Big Roll Grilled Seaweed roll Tom Yum Goong flavor. This was the second snack I tried from the box and thank goodness it was not indicative of the rest of the box. I’m not a seaweed hater but the mascot looks like Eric Cartman so maybe that should have been a hint. Man was this not good. It was a thin, fragile seaweed roll that was flaky and on first taste had a strong salty sea / fishy taste and then I forgot about that as the hot and sour flavor came to the fore. The hot and sour wasn’t bad but trying to get by that fishy salty nastiness wasn’t worth it with a box of other choices. One of which was the most unusual.
Sticky rice with coconut cream and mango. Living up to the name it was very moist and sticky. Unusual but quite tasty. At first the coconut and mango were both mild flavors but definitely present. Then as I got into it there turned out to be a very ripe piece of mango in the center of the sticky rice. The look, feel and texture could easily be off-putting but it was a tasty little snack once you got past all that.
Two others I liked that were just odd enough I wanted to share them as well.
The Juzi-C gummy strip was a spicy pineapple fruit roll up type of snack. The strip itself was thin, flat and coated with a light dusting of sugar crystals. A bite of the stretchy treat got you a sweet pineapple taste that resolved into an eye opening spicy sweet treat. It wasn’t too hot when balanced by the sugar but it was definitely not something you have every day.
The other was a savory snack. Jack ‘n Jill sausage and sweet chili potato rings. This snack was on my radar to be in the weird column because it had a hot dog on the package and it was unusual. They were wee little crunchy rings. After I opened the package the first thing to hit me was the smell. They smelled like hot dogs so the package was no lie and as I was eating them the immediate impression was the same but a microsecond after they hit your tongue the sweet chili flavor takes over. Not bad but staying in the weird column.
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