The best Japanese chips to buy

Snacking is intertwined in Japan's daily life that snacks have taken most of the Japanese aisles Convenience stores, or conbini. They are often arranged on shelves according to popular primary, limited special hours, or new release. Many new kit kats, cookies, and chips appear in esbini shelves every few weeks and leave the competition between meal makers. As a result, enthusiastic snackers meet many options in snack-meat categories of narrow chipes and koikees that are always left over.

But you don't have to be in Japan to benefit from this competition, if you know what to look for. Growing up in Vancouver's suburbs where there is a large Asian community, I have been blessed with worited unlimited access to snacks from Japan, Konge, Korea, and forefinger through the grocery stores. And in recent seizures of popularity of Japanese snacks in North America, these treatments have become more accessible by dedicated online platforms and Subscription Service that gives goodies right in front of your front door. If you are lucky to be in close proximity to a Japanese market or want to browse the wide selection online, these are all chips worth.

Potato chips

Calbee “Kata-age” potato chips, light salt

Calbee as to be known in Japan as placed in North America, and the leading manufacturer of snack-foods will always come out of the Japanese chip game. Thickker than classic classical class, this fan favorite from Calbee is sprinkled with salt and heal fried in a small temperature and healing the sides of a kettle chip.

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Calbee Nori Shio Potato Chips

Nori and Shio are a classic, good balanced sweet-and-salt combination of taste showing different foods, including remen bowls, rice rice, and sea salads. This Nori Shio Chips of Calbee is in production since 1976, and even other brands have since developed their own extraction of seaweed salted

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Calbee Pizza Potato Chips

Cheese is the real star of this taste. Potatoes chips have clothes with a mix of sharp cheddar and smooth emmental cheeses, plus, each thickly cut chip with additional melting cheese gores. The cunning flavor of pizza shines with the help of the gift of garlic, which makes it hit Japan and abroad.

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Koikeya Karamucho Hot Chili Seawe Seaweed Chips

These chips from koikeya thinly cut and ultra crispy, sprinkle with a mixture of Chile Powder and sea flakes. The spice, even if it's gentle, hit the palate first, leaving your tongue with a little tingp. Then the umami from the scales of the ocean of heat.

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Original Chocolate in Royce 'Potatochip

With a side of bright dipped in smooth chocolate milk and other clearly with salt, this sweet and tasty thick cutting of potato product in Japan. Crispy and light of the texture but happened to taste, they were made from potatoes of hokkaido-growing more popular souvenir from northern Japan.

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Potato stick

Calbee Jagarico Potato Sticks

This iconic japanese snack from hokkaido comes to a convenient serving cup with a lid leather. The combination of potatoes and salt makes the classic version local favorite, even if the potato fairly stumbled cheese, cod roe butter. Serving sizes for potato sticks accepted slightly, so stock up.

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Koikeya Karamucho Hot Chili Potato Sticks

Snack-based Tokyo Koikeya is using a game of words to market spicy snack products. “Kararuhao” unites Karai, the Japanese word for spicy, with Mucho, the Spanish word full of Chile Stick.

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Koikeya Presto Mucho Sour Plum Umeboshi Sticks

The Posta Mucho Potato sticks an ode of popular pickled plum snong play this classic tastes of Japanese heavy tangy and salt, balanced with plum sweetness. Sort of Sour Plum

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Non-potato chips and crunchy snacks

Calbee Shrimp Chips

First made in 1964 by Calbee Founder Takashi Matsashi, this wheat-based snack was inspired by his love in his mother's tempura. The cooked chip is now a classic, and ubiquitous on the shelves of Asian Supermarkets in Alah Amachery Amara. Besides the original, which remains more popular choice, these airy shrimp chips also come to attract the choice of taste such as wesabi and hot garlic.

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Amanoyo japanese rice crackers

Made in one of Japan's leading cracker brands, these rice crackers are deep fried-fried to achieve a satisfactory crunch and coated slaze and bad appearance.

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Tohato caramel corn

These bathed caraamel corn puffs were first introduced in Japan in 1971, and one of the most sold tohata treats. To balance its sweetness, the glazed corn curls are usually combined with a few stewed nuts, even if the brand also puts an alternative to almonds. And with the original caramel chariamel chips, Tohata releases seasonal flavors throughout the year, with previous differences including melon, lemons, and sweet potatoes.

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