Happy memories

as I munched on these highly coveted snacks. Everytime a new crew goes to Frankfurt, they are introduced to this Hanuta and a few others chocolate snacks. A trip to FRA, means a trip to the mart to buy home. That was the supermarket where they have a mirror so the staff can see how many items in the trolley. For some reason, I can’t recall the name of the supermarket - Lidl? Aldi? Rewe? Where did we go? If any ex-crew or current SIA crew is reading this please leave comments here. Thanks! I know currently they’re still staying in the same hotel. 

For the last 20 or so years, it has been easy to find Hanuta here now. Either The Cocoa Trees or Candy Empire brought it into SIN first. Now, we can find it in the value shops 😂 too! 

Every bite I take brings me back to FRA. Grateful for Google street map now, I can vividly recall the short cut we took from the hotel to the train station. The familiar buildings appears infront of me as I walked and pressed  ^ ^ ^ on the screen. Makes me want to do the crazy thing of going there and walk the street the 20yrs old me did 30 years ago. 

Japanese snacks

Most of the Japanese snacks are bought during our December’s trip. Trying to blog them as we open up the snack/s. Not sure when I’ll stop putting them on draft.

Trying to record them in so that I don’t lose any photos, and do a review. I may miss some snack review postings coz Big Mouse do finish them quite fast sometimes.  

25th Nov 24

Except for this, as I was scrolling my photo albums and realised I forgot to post this in before. This is the only snack, I think, that is purchased before our last Dec trip. Probably bought this in our yearly pilgrimage trip to FUK July 24? 

Not bad. Maybe it’s a biased review coz I love chocolates. 

17th Jan 

Raisin biscuit bought in Kamakura. I was suppose to eat this while I was still in Japan but coz we came back with so many snacks and fruits, I had to eat those that can’t keep long. 

Kamakura Ogawaken's Raisin Witch is supposedly quite famous, so I’m lucky I stumble upon this shop (Ofuna Lumine Wing Store) at the station. We weren’t suppose to be there, we were suppose to head back to Tokyo once we alighted from the monorail but …. Decided to walk around for an hour. 

Taste test. If this or the one I love from FUK win. 

Coffee flavour

*Drum roll* this has a more subtle taste or almost none alcohol (?) taste so some people might prefer this. The brand that I always love seems to have a more sharper and sweeter taste. I still prefer my old time favourite. Soon! Soon! Soon! I’ll get to taste it again, che-che will get it for me. 

25th Jan

This cookie is made in Niigata and nope we didn’t go there but saw this in a souvenir shop. So buy lor!

Not bad, tastes like shiroi koibito

29th Jan 

Not a snack but ramen. Only che-che ate this. I didn’t get to try this, nobody did 🤣. Will ask her if she wants me to buy this.  

Ate this on 17th Feb. It’s from Osaka. Che-che loves 串カツ (kushikatsu) from Osaka. Our Dec trip with 5N in Osaka she made me eat with her 3x just the two of us, and one more with the family. Hubby and lil’ one didn’t really like fried stuffs so. 

She didn’t want us to finish this box of crackers. She ate 7, I ate 1 coz I was the one who paid for this. Correction, I paid for almost all her snacks and ramen purchases. 

27th Feb

Takoyaki calbee from where else. Slight umami taste to it 

Deleting pics in phone and came across these pictures. 

Saw this in NGO train station. We didn’t know her fav cracker is from NGO. Definitely cheaper here but we couldn’t buy a lot coz by the time we got to NGO (only 8th day of holiday), the huge luggage was messily filled with snacks and filled up with even more snacks from the shop in the castle. 

Did we buy this? Only bought one pack just to make us feel better on saving $$. But then …she always buy at least 3 packs in SIN 😂 

14th Mar (Fri)

Bought from Ochanoko Saisai in Kyoto. 

The curry senbei coupled with some spices reminds me of a snack I ate before. However this is so so so many times better. Every bite offers a delightful blend and after every bite you really can’t stop. I regretted only buying one pack as this is something which I really enjoy. My stomach can’t agree with the spice level but who cares! 

15th Apr 

Took out the snack box from BS and saw so many snacks which is still untouched. new snacks get thrown on top and then old ones gets buried. Not exactly old since it’s only Dec/Jan but the girls bought more snacks from Scarlet and K-mart here 😬. 

Bought this from Okayama. This Calbee Kappa Ebisen Takumi Amabito no Moshio (Sea Salt) flavor is a premium version of the popular Japanese shrimp-flavored cracker. 🦐 from Seto Inland Sea. 

And I must really agree this is premium version coz it’s really yummy. I ate 1 pack and che-che finished the rest of the other 15 packs herself, hubby and lil’ one didn’t even get to try. Sshh…don’t tell them.

Takoyaki is a big hint, bought this in Osaka. Yah, I did mention she loves Calbee. Mainly all the snacks we buy from Japan are her favourites. Lil’ one doesn’t snack that much like her sister. She knows how to eat in moderation until she forgets she had opened up a pack 🤣

So now resorting to putting this bowl, which hasn’t been stored back into the cabinet after CNY 🫢. Serves its purpose with a snack bowl on coffee table, coz most times  “if you don’t see it, you’ll forget you ever have that” - as shown with the Korean snack I bought (*guilt stricken) last Sep. And we didn’t even put any snacks for CNY this year!! Haha! 

Another Kansai snack. She loves Osaka for her Kansai boys and snacks and .. junk food. She loves FUK for her snacks, ice-cream and tonkotsu ramen. 

Another one che-che dug out from the box today. (I left the whole box outside the yard area first as I need to get a shelf up along another wall and start to organize things in properly. Hopefully by then I have nothing much on the floor and can dance inside.) She thought she has finished up all the japanese snacks but no… still got some more. 

27th April 

Hida miso bought in Takayama.  Shall I get this for che-che when I make my trip 😉 in June? Won’t be back in Takayama but I’ll be somewhere in that area. 

Okay, let’s get this posted out now. Bye! 

New Japanese snack

Went to Royal Sweets at the airport to get my raisin cookies. I didn’t buy a lot this time, just 2 boxes 😂. I should have bought more if I knew I was going to bump into batchgirl on the return sector. She was reminiscing about it onboard and said she misses it don’t know where to find it now. Wah…… I told her I always buy that when I’m in FUK! If I had known I’d bump into her, I would have brought a box or two into the plane. Only the senior lau-kok-kok crew will know this. No idea when SQ stopped putting this on the trays. I remember how we’d go and ransack the meal carts after meal service to find any unopened raisin cookie and eat in the galley. Those were the days. 

Che-che bought her strawberry cookie and another new cookie from the same shop. 

This pic is of the stalls in FUK domestic airport. Cheche must have regretted that back in 2022 she didn’t follow me when I had to get my cookies before we depart the next day for home. She went with me in Jul 2023 and then July 2024 asked to go with me where she’d gladly, without complaints n me asking,  carry the heavy paper bags of snacks. 

Can’t remember when she opened this, I took this picture from the website. If we are going to FUK again next year, this will be on our shopping list. 

I bought this from the royal raisin shop and tried it on 2nd Oct. It’s really nice

Che-che always love to try the different Calbee crackers flavours. There’s a Calbee shop in one of the walkway in the station, another must stop shop.  

Opened this box on 14th Oct 

This is like our Indian curry 

Truth to be told, I’m not sure if I’m able to keep up with all the snack posts. Cheche bought so much!! I mean I want to have these on records but I don’t have the time to keep drafting and drafting and nothing gets posted out in time coz I haven’t had time to edit. I shall just post it out now. Hopefully I’ll have time to post on other snacks next time.