{"product_id":"calbee-kataage-potato-chips-negi-shio","title":"Calbee Kataage Potato Chips Negi Shio Spring Onion 60g","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thick, hard-fried potato crisp under spring onion, garlic and salt: the sauce a Japanese grill house spoons over beef tongue. Buy it if you like a savoury, garlicky crisp with a hard bite; if you want something light to get through a whole bag, this is too rich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e堅あげポテト ねぎ塩だれ味 (\u003cem\u003ekata-age poteto, negi-shio-dare aji\u003c\/em\u003e). Those are the characters to match against the bag when it arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalbee's fan club asked its members for a flavour that would go with beer, picked this one out of 675 suggestions, and printed the story of how it happened on the back of the bag. It is the only thing on our shelf that came from Japanese customers' own suggestions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe potato is sliced thick and fried slowly in a single kettle, so a crisp breaks with a hard crack instead of a light snap. \"Kataage\" means hard-fried, and that slow kettle fry is how they get there.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe garlic arrives first and stays. Behind it there is black pepper and a savoury note from beef extract, all over a heavy salt.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is rich enough that some people stop at half a bag.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuyers split almost evenly on how much spring onion they actually find.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe pack pictures beef tongue, but the beef comes as an extract in the seasoning, not as pieces of meat, and some buyers taste it clearly while others barely find it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContains: wheat, sesame, soy.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Japanese panel also lists beef; Australia does not treat beef as an allergen, so it sits in the ingredients rather than in our allergen list. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlso worth knowing\u003c\/strong\u003e: the seasoning carries beef extract, so there is meat in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese are hard enough that Calbee prints its own warning to chew carefully so you do not hurt the inside of your mouth.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two other things before you buy: this is a limited Japanese run, so it will not be reorderable for long, and the flavour name on the front of the bag is written only in Japanese. Japanese buyers who have tried it treat it as a drinking snack: beer, but just as often a highball or a shochu, the distilled spirit drunk long with soda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calbee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48454666453218,"sku":"SH-SNK-0079","price":4.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/calbee-kataage-potato-negi-shio-60g-bag.webp?v=1790907173","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/calbee-kataage-potato-chips-negi-shio","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}