Bitter: 🟡🟡○○○ Salty: 🟡○○○○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Sweet: 🟡🟡○○○ Umami: 🟡○○○○ Heat: 🟡🟡○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Tangy, Sharp, Fruity Recommended: Yes Texture: Small whole chiles with a bit of chew Ingredients: Red chili pepper, vinegar, water, salt, and INS 223 (sodium metabisulfite preservative). As can be deduced from the Portuguese on the label, this product, translated into…
Bitter: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Salty: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡○ Sweet: 🟡○○○○ Umami: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Heat: 🟡🟡○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Fruity, sharp, tangy, mustardy, earthy Recommended: Yes Texture: Medium and creamy with some chewy bits Ingredients: Water, Vinegar, Red Chili Pepper, Olive Oil, Mustard Seed, Monosodium Glutamate, Contains 2% or less of Salt, Onion, Garlic, Spices, Turmeric, Natural Flavor. Divine Pepper…
Wa-Chaa! (hereafter just written as Wa-Chaa without the exclamation point) is a newer US-focused brand of Huang Fei Hong. The tagline of “The Kung-Fu Cult Classic” originally struck me as being a bit cringey but reading about the history of Huang Fei Hong I was interested to learn that it was named after a Chinese…
Bitter: 🟡🟡○○○ Salty: 🟡🟡○○○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Sweet: 🟡🟡○○○ Umami: 🟡🟡○○○ Heat: 🟡🟡○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Tangy, rich, naturally sweet Recommended: Yes Texture: Medium with seeds and small bits Ingredients: White vinegar, Familia Farm red jalapenos, LePage Farm roasted pumpkin, Dog River Farm tomatoes, Full Moon Farm maple wood smoked onions, Dutchess Farm red habanero, Full Moon…
Bitter: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Salty: 🟡○○○○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡○○ Sweet: 🟡○○○○ Umami: 🟡○○○○ Heat: 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Quick Flavor Notes: Citrus, Earthy, Astringent, Bright Recommended: Yes Texture: Thin and smooth Ingredients: Green Primotalii Pepper, Lemon Juice, Vinegar, Water, Garlic, Salt, Spices Actually Food Hot Sauce is a company that’s surprisingly difficult to find much information on online. I think part of…
Bitter: 🟡○○○○ Salty: 🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Sweet: 🟡🟡○○○ Umami: 🟡○○○○ Heat: 🟡🟡○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Fruity, Tart, Salty, Citrusy Recommended: Yes Texture: Thin and smooth Ingredients: Datil Peppers, Vinegar, Lime Juice, Spices, Salt Florida Cracker Trading Company is the merchandise brand of Florida Cracker restaurant group started by brothers Blair & Ethan Hensley. Beginning in Brooksville,…
Bitter: 🟡 🟡○○○ Salty: 🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Sour/Tangy: 🟡🟡○○○ Sweet: 🟡○○○○ Umami: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Heat: 🟡🟡○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Tofu, chile, umami, salty Recommended: Yes Texture: Chewy tofu bits Ingredients (Chinese label): Non-fermented soy product, edible vegetable oil, dried chili peppers, monosodium glutamate, potassium hydrochloride, calcium propionate, edible flavorings and spices Buying Chinese snacks from Amazon (or other…
Bitter: 🟡🟡○○○ Salty: 🟡🟡○○○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡○○○ Sweet: 🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Umami: 🟡🟡○○○ Heat: 🟡🟡○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Sour, Savory, Sweet, Coconut Recommended: Yes Texture: Medium and mostly smooth Ingredients: Green Chiles, Vinegar (Infused with Galangal, Lemongrass and Kaffir Lime Leaf), Lime Juice, Coconut Water, Coconut Sugar, Garlic, Salt, Toasted Onion, Green Chile Flake, Thai Basil, Culantro, Spices Karma…
Bitter: 🟡○○○○ Salty: 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Sour/Tangy: 🟡○○○○ Sweet: 🟡○○○○ Umami: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Heat: 🟡○○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Salty, savory, beefy, smoky Recommended: Yes Texture: Soft with some cornmeal resistance Ingredients: Water, Beef, Tomatoes (water, tomato paste), Corn Meal, Corn Flour, Contains 2% or less of Modified Corn Starch (contains erythorbic acid), Masa Flour (ground corn, trace of…
Bitter: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Salty: 🟡○○○○ Sour/Tangy: 🟡○○○○ Sweet: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Umami: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Heat: 🟡🟡🟡○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Peanuts, ginger, carmelization Recommended: Yes Texture: Super crunchy with good moisture Ingredients: Groundnut, Pepper, Onion, Ginger, Salt & Sugar I’ve reviewed a number of spicy Asian snacks in the past but I realized that Africa has largely been a blind…