Category: Food

Korean Fairy Floss

December 5, 2025

Jessica brought this back for me from Korea:

It’s a bag of ~~cotton candy~~ fairy floss that comes with ‘stickers’ so you can make a face.

Thats what was inside, and you can see that the stickers – printed on a thin piece of what feels like cake icing – broke a bit in transit.

I did my best, and the above shows the face I created. Does it look like anyone you know?

Bagged fairy floss is common in Japan, and now I assume Korea as well. It sounds strange but it’s quite delicious, although it’s more solid than the freshly made variety.

I’ve had fairy floss by this same manufacturer before. In fact I once ate so much I almost wrote a script for a Chinese snake movie. So without ceremony I didn’t hesitate to try it…

And it was awful. It had a terrible taste, like burned coffee (which I’ve never tasted) or rotten caramel (also never tasted) or even unripe persimmon (never will taste). And it wasn’t just me who thought this: not only did KLS also hate it, but when I texted the packaging to Jessica to ask what the flavour was she checked online and said the reviews for it were awful.

We never did find out what it was supposed to taste like 🙂

Ramen Universes Beyond: Pac-Man

November 6, 2025

The above was a recent marketing promotion here in the USA. Maruchan brand chicken ramen instant noodles replaced their normal outer wrapper with a Pac-Man themed one. Here’s a detail of the Pac-Man portion of the wrapper:

As you can see this was to promote the new game Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac which I have no interest in and will never play. Apparently this packaging was available all over the US but I never saw it and KLS (who purchased this) only spied it once.

The ramen itself is identical to the normal Maruchan chicken, which is to say the cup and lid has no Pac-Man branding at all. The taste is ‘ok’, which is to say I wouldn’t have eaten this were it not for the branding, which means the marketing worked!

I thought that surely Pac-Man would have been on ramen before – especially in Japan – but a search online only located this one small example, which seems to have been a crane game prize two decades ago. I wonder how it tasted?

Candy Making Saturday!

October 25, 2025

The seventh and final installment in this candy making series is another kit by Kracie: this sushi kit. Egg, tuna and salmon row sushi, all made of candy. Let’s go!

No surprises with the kit contents, although the dropper is unusual. The black packet on the bottom contains the ‘seaweed’.

This was a pliable solid that was flattened and would become the seaweed wrap for the salmon roe. I nibbled a tiny bit and it had a fruity taste.

The rice was interesting. Once again it was simply powder mixed with water but this time it formed a sticky and somewhat grainy clump that at first glance easily passed as rice.

The egg and tuna were jellies formed in these two trays. The bottoms of the trays were textured, as you’ll see on the photos of the finished product below. They nailed the colours of both of these and they convincingly look like egg and tuna.

The amazing moment from this kit was the creation of the salmon roe. A powder was dissolved to form a red liquid which was then dropped into a tray containing another dissolved powder in which it solidified! The individual eggs could then be removed and used as the roe.

The final step was to create beds of rice on which to play the egg/tuna/roe. This was easy and the final products look great.

The salmon roe sushi in particular is a work of art! That’s all candy, and 100% edible! And I made it myself 🙂

This stuff was all delicious. The texture was perfect (mostly gummy but the rice was chewy) and the tastes were all fruity. We didn’t plan this, but this final kit was the best of the seven both in terms of fun to make and how yummy they were to eat. All the thumbs up for this one!

And that’s it for a week of candy making. I hope you enjoyed this, since we did. And you can bet if we find any more unusual (probably Japanese) candy making kits in the future we’ll be buying them as well!

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