ASIAN SNACKS YOU'VE NEVER TRIED BEFORE - PART 1 | Fung Bros

It's too hard to chew. Well, you're not supposed to eat a whole patty full of it. I didn't. I thought you had the fish full. What's going on everybody? It has been a while since we filmed at a 99 Ranch. Woo! And yes, that is officially the name. It's not Ranch 99. It's 99 Ranch. Facts. If you guys have been to an Asian supermarket lately, you guys will notice a few things. One, they are modernizing. Two, they're probably a little bit cleaner. And three, the snack aisle has way more variety than it used to. Woo! If you're coming up with some flavors that you would never even think of. Hey, did you see that even the white rabbit candy has a whole diverse product right now? Oh my god, man. Growing up, all you know is just white rabbit. Yo, guys, you know what's funny? We always talk about Asian representation in entertainment, but I'm talking about Asian representation in the snack aisle now. Ooh! Yeah! Man, we've been talking a lot about snacks, and y'all know how I like my snacks, man. Let's just go try some. Nelson got the taste buds of an ant, I'm telling you. He can sense that sugar from a mile away. Alright, guys, we're gonna go get a bunch of snacks, we're gonna see which flavors are new to us, and then we're gonna tell you what we think. New Asian Snacks, let's go! Alright, you guys, man, we didn't get fully through the chip aisle, but you just gotta get started at some point. Immediately, the thing that caught me off guard is I never thought that these old school Cantonese shrimp chips were gonna modernize. I was gonna say, I'm surprised that they're still around. And I'm surprised that they expanded their product line to all these different flavors. And I'm kind of surprised that they expanded the product line, but not the logo. But nowadays, it's got a little bit like that retro hipster feel. This would almost be the equivalent of different types of fortune cookies. Are you surprised that it's from Chino, California? Let's try it here. I got sour cream and onion, cheese, barbecue. I'm not gonna lie, the cheese one, not a lot of cheese flavor. Okay. Are these sour cream and onion? Not even the barbecue. That's the thing about these shrimp snacks, they're lacking in flavor. I will say this though, Asian flavors, when it comes to snacks, they tend to be a little bit less intense. You gotta show me something on this chip, man. You gotta show me something. So Calbi is a brand from Japan, but it makes, you might think it's from Korea, but it's not called Calbi. Dude, these shrimp chips have been around for like 50 years, so of course they gotta come up with some new flavors. If you guys know in Japan, they love having like a trillion versions of everything. They're Kit Kats, I think they got like, I don't even know, I don't wanna get their number wrong, but I think they might have like 400 different flavors of Kit Kats. I'll tell you this, there's over 130 flavors of Hi-Chews. I got yuzu and black pepper. I got hot garlic. Okay, and I got the wasabi. Here's the thing about Calbi, they also make these snap peas snacks that actually have made it into the American grocery stores. Do I gotta try it? Yo, there's yuzu and pepper joint. Hold on, can I build up to that one? Let me build up. Is it fire though? Let me try the wasabi one here. Consistency of the sides. Okay. Yuzu, black pepper. The yuzu, black pepper is the winner. Okay. A dish at a restaurant, you can get it on your steaks or something. Well, they use a lot of yuzu on like steaks and your yakitori and stuff. No, no, black pepper steak. Yuzu, black pepper steak. That's the winner right there. It is, it is, it is. Shout out to Product Diversity. We covered this in our Korean convenience store video. Honey Butter flew up in Korea. Yeah. And if you guys have been on top of your Asian snack game, you might have seen these for a while. Now, have you had Honey Butter stuff? No, I've not. Nelson, I'll be the first one. I don't know how I feel about this, man. What? Light, sweet, buttery. What do you not like? It's good. I feel like it's not as salty and savory that I would want in a chip though. Two years ago when Honey Butter really blew up, I was more into it. Well, you are a hype beast for the Honey Butter. It's not bad, but I don't know if it'll like stand the test of time. Besides the saltiness of the chip, there's not much, you know, savory stuff. The steamed cakes. I just know it's full of deliciousness. Hey, you know that this is legit because look, the import stickers. Yeah. If they haven't redone the packaging for American consumption, that's when you know that this is like really from Japan. I have a strawberry one, I have a chocolate one, you have a honey one, and you got the cheese one. Hey, this confectionary will bring you happiness. You will just love the taste. A heartwarming time. Please enjoy your tea time with this. A sweet time will be given at a tea time when people relax leisurely or a short time for a pleasant chat. We got a message for y'all, man. I haven't opened up a present in a while. I kind of feel like this is like Christmas. I feel kind of decadent right now. Hey, I know my birthday's in two weeks guys. Come on now. No, if you guys know in Japan, in Japan they love packaging. This is not in the regular section though. This was at the end of the aisle. They're advertising and pushing this product. Yo, this is a new product. Check this out. It's like when you walk into the footlocker and then the shoes at the front entrance, that's the shoe they're showing off. That was these. Alright, I have the chocolate steamed cake. I got the honey steamed cake. I got the cheese. I got filling. I got filling too. It reminds me of the Tokyo banana. Oh yeah, the one that comes in the banana shape. Immediately, I enjoy it. It took me to Japan with the whole experience. I don't think it's an instant classic. I think this is more for the older generation that's actually going to sit down with tea and have a nice drink with it because it's not the most moist thing. You're gonna need some type of liquid or beverage to accompany this. And you know what it is too? The kids, they don't necessarily like things that are like steamy and moist that aren't fresh. Let's try this last flavor. This is a strawberry one. It kind of reminds me of a mochi concept. A little bit. Kind of like a spongy little cake right there. This one, this is my favorite. This one's more flavorful. This is the best one. You can never go wrong with strawberry flavor, man. The filling though, I thought that was the best filling. You know one thing I noticed is like Asian snacks, they don't care about advertising like, yo, 5% real ingredients. But I will tell you, Hi-Chews does advertise that they're gluten-free now. But they've always been gluten-free. Strawberry rice crackers. Hello Kitty. Sundae rice crackers. So you know how to get this because this is the new Hello Kitty x Sundae collab. They're strawberry flavored rice cakes. Taiwanese version of these, it's MSG flavored. But it's still a rice cake. The Japanese ones have always had the white frosting. I don't know why Chinese food gets bad if it's wrapped for MSG. Japanese people use MSG. Hell no. MSG was invented in Japan. Oh, it's okay when the Japanese do it. But it's not okay. Ha ha. You gotta lick it. A little bit. Barely. Barely strawberry flavor. I don't taste any at all. I do think it's a lot for the aesthetics. But there's a little bit of flavor in there. I would still prefer this over the original. If you're a kid, you would give that to your crush rather than the original package. For sure. For sure. This one has so much kawaii built into it, man. We got the Kolo Guo. Huge snack in Taiwan. So they look like Twisted Fritos. Here's the thing. These are made out of peas. They also have 2 grams of fiber per serving. So I don't know Nelson. I'm just saying this might count as a serving of vegetables. Instead of eating real vegetables, I'll be eating these all day. First flavor I'm trying is the spicy. Should we all try one original just to get the base flavor so you know you understand. These are from Taoyuan. This tastes like a really healthy chip. It does. It does. Try this basil though. The basil? You're literally eating like a basil leaf. That did a heck of a job imitating basil. Basil. I like spicy. Try the spicy. Yo. Kolo Guo is bringing it. Wasabi. Wasabi. You can see I like the little green on there. I think it's easy to put wasabi powder on anything. It's already powdered. Yeah. Just sprinkle it on. I gotta say that after trying everything the basil is the winner man. You spoke too soon. Lemon and pink salt. Himalayan pink salt. Shout out to all the Himalayans we know especially in New York City. I'm not like that into this flavor but they did a good job of replicating it. This is the pink lemonade. The basil is that ding ding ding. I'll say this. Because not a lot of brands want to venture into basil flavored snacks. So I gotta give them credit. They went with the basil. Guys, I'm not gonna lie. I'm licking my lips and there's a lot of MSG on them. There's nothing wrong with MSG. It's like salt. Too much salt is bad for you. Too much a lot of things are bad for you. Our next snack from the chip aisle is the tempura seaweed. These are seaweed sheets that are fried with a side of tempura. This flavor I have is the spicy flavor. I have the tempura flavor which is the original style. I got the kimchi. In previous videos we have covered the previous way that seaweed was presented. There was two major kinds. There was a Japanese version in a bin and you could get it spicy or non-spicy. And then there was a Korean version that was like more sesame flavored. Mine is a little different from you guys. Mine is not tempura seaweed. Mine is grilled seaweed. A little different. It's from Thailand. A product of Thailand. See, you assumed it was Japanese. Tempura seaweed. And grilled. The crispiest seaweed I've ever eaten. I had to wait three seconds for it. The crisp and the flavoring, man. Explosion. That's a Taekwondo kick. That's actually spicy. I could eat this all day. I think I like grilled seaweed better than I like fried seaweed. Alright, now we're moving on to the section of dried squid. Now this was a section that was kind of hard to see if they had modernized, but there's a couple standouts here. We got the Samyang flavor. Samyang, popular for their spicy ramen bowls. Hot chicken flavor. I mean, I would say Korean hot chicken has become very popular. Hot chicken squid. Take some time to kick in, right? I'm waiting. It does taste more like chicken than like squid. It's sort of missing that sea-like umami. In Kanto, we call it saengme. Saengme. Basically that seafood smell. But it doesn't really have it, right? No. Shirakiku brand smoked squid. This is probably one of the OG brands. Yo, do you smell it? It's got a really strong smoke flavor. This is smoked squid. You ain't want no smoke? Don't want no smoke, smoke, smoke. You see how this shreds? Tastes good, but I don't enjoy eating it. It's a lot of smoke. It's too hard to chew. Well, you're not supposed to eat a whole patty full of it. I didn't. I thought you had the fist full. We'll say this is one of the more moist dried squids out there. And maybe they developed this flavor for the American audience. I was going to say that I kind of like original spicy. No, it's always cool to try new flavors. It's cool to try new things, but sometimes certain products, the best thing is the OG. I felt like the sweetness was overtaking the squid flavor, and when you're eating dried squid, you want to feel the squid. That was just round one. I was fascinated obviously by the steam cakes, by some of the new basil flavors. I was a big fan of that yuzu pepper shrimp chip. That was interesting, because a lot of people don't want to venture into yuzu, but yuzu is like a citrus kind of like sour flavor, so that kind of replaces lemon a lot of the time. I really like that kimchi seaweed, that grilled one. Just because of the way they made it, you know how it's so thin and crisp, it was a new way of eating. Kimchi has obviously been a flavor that's been around for a long time, in terms of snacks and stuff, but just the way they made the seaweed was really interesting. I felt like as far as new flavors that a lot of people did not grow up with, we covered a lot of them. You're talking about yuzu, basil, kimchi. That does it for round one, aka the savory aisle, the chip aisle. Stay tuned for the sweet aisle round two in the next video. We hitting the candy aisle, my favorite. Shout out to 99 Ranch. Until next time, we out. Peace. And by the way guys, make sure you let us know in the comment section below which Asian snack you would like to see expanded flavors of.