Asian snacks part 1

Most every Asian child will recognize the following two snack foods.

Yan yan is a Japanese snack with two compartments--one holds the biscuit/cracker sticks and the other contains the flavored frosting for dipping.  While I grew up with plain old chocolate and strawberry, there are a whole slew of flavors now.  Here are some we picked up while in Singapore including hazelnut, mango and chocolate/strawberry combo.

Pocky is another huge favorite from Japan.  It's a thin biscuit stick coated with a fun flavor such as chocolate, strawberry or almond.  There are a ton of variations and I was excited to find pumpkin, strawberry, choco banana and milk coffee.

I'm glad I finally got around to taking pictures of these so now I can break into them!  Hope they taste as good as they look!

More grocery finds

Another installment of different versions at the grocery store!

More Pringles flavors: Blueberry & Hazelnut, Indonesian Satay,

 Lemon & Sesame and Bangkok grilled chicken wing

(I wonder if they test new flavors out in Asia?)

And just when I thought plain old Sara Lee pound cake was awesome--

here's Sultana (raisin), Coffee, Marbled chocolate swirl, Mango and Chocolate!

And a twist on Neapolitan ice cream, 

this time with mango, sweet corn and yam!

Grocery shopping in Singapore

We always stop in local grocery stores when we travel and Singapore is probably one of the best to peruse.  There are a lot of old favorites that I grew up with but most of all, food is imported from all over Asia as well as Europe and Australia/New Zealand, so you get all sorts of interesting items.

These little chocolate cookies are from New Zealand 

and come in three flavors: Snickers, Twix and Mars

Yummy ice cream with Crunch, Smarties, Milo and Kit Kat pieces

Pringles in Asian flavors like seaweed, soft shell crab and shrimp!