tasty snacking

Marunaga 焼きおいももなか Roasted Sweet Potato Ice Cream Sandwich: This ice cream sandwich is shaped like a roasted sweet potato using potatoes from the Kagoshima prefecture. It is impressively textured to mimic the wrinkly skin of a sweet potato using monaka, a thin rice-based wafer used in many Japanese treats. The monaka doesn't have any flavor on its own, but inside the two halves of the potato are a white sweet potato ice cream and a yellow paste, almost like a cross between a jam and a mash. Overall, I found the dessert to be too sweet, especially ... (read more) 3.0/5.0

icecream japanese santouka dessert sweetpotato marunaga 焼きおいももなか 3.0

Wei-Chuan sweet potato buns: These frozen buns have a nice consistency when steamed, but I have mixed feelings about its sweet potato filling. It tastes true to the ingredient, with a similar soft consistency, but I find it to be uncomfortably reminiscent of baby food. It isn't too sweet but also verges on lacking flavor. 2.5/5.0

weichua sweetpotato buns chinese frozen 2.5 weichuan sweet potato

North Folk Sweet potato kettle chips: Regrettably bitter and tasting more of oil than vegetable, these kettle cooked sweet potato chips were a disappointing, underseasoned batch. 2.5/5.0

sweetpotato northfolk sweet potato kettle chips 2.5

Back to Nature sweet potato and cinnamon crackers: Faintly sweet crackers that are too crunchy and hard. Flavor could be a lot more robust. Underwhelming. 2.0/5.0

backtonature crackers sweetpotato cinnamon sweet potato 2.0