Potato Chips

I bought these two months ago, on April 1. I was expecting flavors for a lot of other countries, but all I’ve seen so far are these English ones and then a Brazilian salsa flavor (if I remember correctly) that I didn’t bother to try.

Mayonnaise-flavored potato chips from Thailand prompt a reflection on whether the flavor adds anything beyond what plain chips dipped in real mayonnaise would achieve, with the more compelling takeaway being that the mayonnaise flavor concept would work better applied to nuts or popcorn.

A runner describes navigating firecracker-filled streets in a small Chinese town on Chinese New Year’s Eve, then reviews two seasonal Lays flavors: Hong Kong-style dumpling (a one-time novelty) and seafood XO sauce (a surprisingly rich, spicy umami standout).

The author reviews Utz’s crab-flavored potato chips, finding the texture excellent but the crab flavor undetectable — more like “seasoned salt” — adding it to a long personal collection of crab chip varieties tried across different countries, and credits a mention on The Talking Greenkeeper podcast for prompting the taste test.

A tasting of five new Lay’s Thailand flavors — including chuka wakame, chili crab, sour twist, seafood twist, and grilled eel — yields a surprise winner in the Xtra Crunchy unagi chip, while the seafood twist disappoints by tasting too similar to the sour twist.

A potato chip enthusiast reviews six flavors across two “3-in-1” bags — salmon chili lime and a multi-flavor caramel popcorn cheddar cheese butter corn — captured in an accidentally made first chip review video that ends abruptly when the chips hit the floor.

A food and lifestyle update covering a memorable duck noodle lunch, recent Lays Thailand chip flavor tastings, and a return to posting videos on the Asian Turfgrass Center YouTube channel, plus a brief mention of finally spotting a lion at a local menagerie.

A potato chip enthusiast reflects on the overwhelming pace of new novelty chip flavors, including cheese pizza and a complex Hokkaido-inspired seafood cheese pizza with pineapple and ham, tracing the rapid evolution from a Chef’s Signature series through anniversary flavors and a surprising KFC collaboration.

A bag of Pizza Hut cheese pizza-flavored chips spotted at 7-Eleven prompts reflection on how a mild, universally appealing flavor like plain cheese could serve as an entry point that leads snackers toward bolder, more adventurous chip flavors.

The blog post reviews a surprise KFC x Lays Thailand collaboration chip, with the author finding the flavor so accurately reminiscent of KFC’s seasoning that they joke Lays stole the Colonel’s secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.