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With its “Potato Chips” brand celebrating its 40th anniversary, snack company Calbee decided to poll Japan residents on the flavors they’d like to see next…

Japan
(Calbee • food • potato chips • snacks • weird)

Sakura McFizz and fries with plum seasoning on sale now at McDonald’s

Oona McGee
Mar 4, 2016

The pink-coloured items are a beautiful way to spruce up the menu for spring.

Japan
(cherry blossoms • fast food • fries • McDonald's • McFizz • plum • potato chips • sakura • taste test • ume)

Calbee goes spicy with two new potato chip flavors — Thai tom yum kung and Sichuan-style tofu!

Kay
Mar 3, 2016

Some spicy new potato chip flavors are hitting Japan, but they’ll only be available for a month or so!

Japan
(Calbee • food • potato chips • snacks • spicy tofu • Tom Yum Kung)

Pikachu-shaped popcorn snack coming to Japan this March

Oona McGee
Feb 15, 2016

The electric energy of Pikachu tastes like puffs of crispy caramel.

Japan
(anime • cute • Pikachu • Pokemon • popcorn • potato chips • snacks • Tohato)

Green tea chocolate-covered shrimp chips are the next big thing to hit shelves in Japan

Oona McGee
Feb 12, 2016

Japan’s popular shrimp-flavoured snack now comes covered in a coating of dark green matcha chocolate.

Japan
(Calbee • chocolate • green tea • japanese snacks • Kappa Ebisen • matcha • potato chips • prawn chips • Shrimp • taste test)

Green tea chocolate-covered potato chips arrive in Japan! 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Feb 4, 2016

It’s not like we really needed any more reasons to eat potato chips, but matcha and chocolate together make a pretty convincing argument.

Japan
(Calbee • chocolate • food • green tea • matcha • potato chips • snacks • taste test)

Get ready for a cherry-blossom-flavored spring with Sakura Butter potato chips from Calbee!

Kay
Feb 1, 2016

We may be in the dead of winter here in Japan, but snack makers are already coming out with a taste of Spring.

Japan
(butter • Calbee • potato chips • sakura • snacks)

We try the latest crazy chip flavour from Japan: Strawberry shortcake 【Taste test】

Oona McGee
Dec 10, 2015

Japan now has a new crazy potato chip flavour, and it tastes just like a Japanese Christmas cake!

Japan
(food • Meg • potato chips • snacks • strawberry shortcake • taste test • weird)

Calbee will have you clawing (literally) for their new cola-flavored chips

Jamie Koide
Dec 5, 2015

Both foreigners and Japanese folks agree, Calbee’s new cola-flavored chips are a big win. But you’ll have to be pretty lucky to get some for yourself!

Japan
(Calbee • Cola • cool • food • Namco • potato chips • UFO catcher)

Like good-looking men? Now you can get your own ikemen hot guy in a bag…of chips!

Kay
Nov 11, 2015

Who isn’t fond of a little eye candy, right? Yup, we all like to take a look at good-looking guys (and gals) from time to time. But now, Japanese brand and product promotion company ESSPRIDE is giving us the chance to enjoy ikemen (hot guys) in a completely unexpected way…by pulling one out of a bag of chips!

That’s right, we present to you Ikemen Chips, a unique snack that comes with a special “hot guy card“, each featuring a picture and profile of an ikemen. And what makes the product especially interesting is that they’re actually regular guys working at various Japanese companies who have submitted their pictures and information to be made into the ikemen cards!

Japan
(food • hot guys • ikemen • potato chips • snacks)

Matcha green tea potato chips coming soon to make snack time in Japan cultured and delicious

Casey Baseel
Oct 20, 2015

Potato chips and matcha green tea seem like the opposite endpoints of the refreshment spectrum. Matcha is a refined, high-class drink meant to be sipped and savored in a quiet moment, whereas potato chips are often most enjoyable when scarfed down by the handful while watching sports or playing video games.

But sometimes the best way to find balance in life is with contrasting extremes, like the matcha potato chips that are about to go on sale in Japan.

Japan
(food • green tea • matcha • potato chips • snacks • tea)

Lotteria wins us over with two amazing new potato chip burgers

Oona McGee
Jul 26, 2015

Lotteria Japan has done it again. Just when we thought nothing could beat their ramen noodle burgers, they bring out these little beauties. No more dreaming of salty, crunchy potato chips smothered in sauce and stuffed inside your favourite burger because Lotteria has finally made our dreams a reality!

Japan
(burgers • Calbee • chips • fast food • french fries • Lotteria • potato chips)

New snack sensation: super sour and certainly salty lemon flavour potato chips

Evie Nyan
Jun 19, 2015

Yep, it’s “weird potato chip flavour” time again! Hot on the heels of steak sandwich flavour, tangerine flavour, and banana and peach “breakfast chips”, we bring you… super sour lemon!

No doubt these crunchy potato slivers will be burning huge holes in our tongues when they go on sale and we immediately rush to satisfy our curiosity by guzzling several bags at once.

Internet, Japan
(crazy • crisps • lemon • potato chips • snacks • sour)

“Japanese steak sandwich” flavour potato chips have us slavering over our keyboards!

Evie Nyan
Jun 6, 2015

Here at RocketNews24, we love trying out all of Japan’s weird and wacky potato chip varieties. Just recently, we wrapped our chops around bags of banana and peach flavoured “breakfast” chips. And of course there was the time that we sampled coffee flavour chips…

But after all that taste bud overloading, our tongues are in need of something a little more subtle. Luckily for us, a new flavour of potato chips is about to hit the market, and they sound absolutely delicious. Japanese steak sandwich flavour? Shut up and take our money!