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Today’s snacks are from NTUC FairPrice own house brand. They are recommended by my colleague who also help purchased this 100g bag of Roasted Corn Cashews on behalf for me. Retail price is S$4.90 but I got it for half the price of S$2.45. No wonder my colleague snatched up eight packs while another bought four bags. Look just like mini potatoes but are just cashew nuts in a corn-flavoured 🌽 coating with hint of smokiness. Comes in a resealable foil bag but I can easily finish the whole package in one sitting. 😋

To chip in some National Day spirit to Singapore’s SG60 festivities, FairPrice Group announced the launch of a new limited-edition range of SG60 FairPrice potato chips: Black Pepper Crab 🦀, Laksa 🍜, and Kopi ☕. The a-peeling new range, curated to be a mash-up of Singapore’s most iconic flavours, will be available across all FairPrice supermarkets and Cheers convenience stores from July to September 2025.

If you find garden-variety potato chips boring, then have some Kopi Potato Chips. Got this 90g bag on offer for S$1.95; a saving of 55 cents off the retail price of S$2.50. An aromatic cloud of coffee hit the nose when you opened the bag. The potato chips are crisp and flavoured with the taste of caramelized and creamy coffee ☕ like those from a 3 in 1 coffee sachet. What’s not to like of the savoury sweet taste and crispy chips. Thumbs up from both me and my colleague.

Opened up the bag of Black Pepper Crab Potato Chips but was frankly disappointed with the overall flavours. While the potato chips themselves were crispy with a lightly peppery taste, I struggled to detect whatever crabby 🦀 flavour there is. Unless they grind up the crabs into powder, my guess it is hard to replicate the taste of the crustacean in chips that cost just S$1.95.

Laksa (叻沙) is a spicy noodle dish popular in Southeast Asia. Laksa consists of various types of noodles, most commonly thick rice noodles, with toppings such as chicken, prawns or fish. Most variations of laksa 🍜 are prepared with a rich and spicy coconut curry soup. This Laksa Potato Chips tried to imitate that spicy coconutty broth but without much success. The chips are spicy enough with notes of coconut flavour but lack the aromatics fragrances of spices to call it laksa.

Kopi means coffee in Southeast Asia.

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Sure-Fire Ways to Fire Up Your Chinese New Year Celebrations

Here are some ideas on how to fire up your boring CNY gatherings. Just make sure you don't burn yourself. #livelifelove #CNY #gathering #celebrations

There are 2 reasons why you are reading this post even though you’ve already read last year’s version of “Sure-Fire Ways to Get You Uninvited to Next Year’s Chinese New Year Celebrations”. You either found it useful and wanted to future proof yourself, or you found it not useful and want to future proof yourself.

Anyways, these methods require some practising (best alone in your bedroom, if…

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Amazing how much variety one job can give you. #IRO #NTUC #USE #NationalDay

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Driscoll's Blueberries, also known as "Bleuets" in Canadian French, are high-quality, hand-picked blueberries 🫐 known for their perfect size, rounded flavor, and extra-sweet taste, often used for snacking, baking, or adding to yogurt. These imported berries aren’t cheap but they are exceptionally sweet and juicy.

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Colleagues know that me and mum love frozen desserts. We have eaten those fish-shaped taiyaki ice cream from Chateraise and love it. They informed me about the Samanco Ice Cream Sandwich (S$8.10 for a pack of 4s) on sale at our local NTUC supermarket. These frozen confections are made in South Korea by Binggrae and comes in quite a few flavours like strawberry, chocolate, red bean and the two below that I bought. The Samanco Green Tea & Red Bean Ice Cream Sandwich comes with matcha flavoured ice cream plus sweetened red beans. Outside it are two halves of wafer fish which is no longer crispy as expected.

The Samanco Mixberry Ice Cream Sandwich (S$8.96) is the latest available flavour so there is no discount for it. This taiyaki is filled with vanilla ice cream and a thin layer of mix berries syrup giving it a fruity tang. Between the two flavours, I much preferred the latter as the berries flavour is far more refreshing.

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Came across these limited time flavour chips (S$3.05 each) during my grocery shopping trips at NTUC. The two being Lay’s Stax Truffle and Lay’s Stax Shrimp Tom Yum flavours. The latter is like eating the traditional Thai cuisine in a potato chip. You get the spiciness from the Asian herbs with bursts of citrusy lime in a single crisp. The truffle flavoured one I have not eaten yet, but I guess the taste wouldn’t be too far off from Lay’s Truffle Flavoured Potato Chips.

Now, on to the next bag of chips - Lay’s Salted Egg Flavoured Potato Chips (S$5.30). Tearing open the bag, I was surprised or should I say dismayed to find the chips practically in crumbles. Pinching a small bundle of the potato chips and dropping them into the mouth, there is the familiar salted egg taste with a hint of sweetness in every crunch. While the salted egg flavour is present, it could do with a stronger profile. Overall, I would give it a “don’t buy” rating. In the meantime, I will stick to my truffle flavoured chips.

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Was shopping with mum at NTUC and came across boxes of Driscoll’s Blueberries Bleuets 🫐 at S$14.95 each. On the sticker is the “Sweetest Batch” label so the berries must be really sweet for it to display the tag. And inside the box are some of the biggest blueberries 🫐 I have ever seen, the largest one I measured at more than one inch in diameter! They are so sweet…

Note: Bleuets refers to the North American blueberry.

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There is a new Lay’s Stax Oregano Flavour (S$2.60 per 100g can) potato crisps out in the retail markets. If you like your herbs, this one is for you. The crisps are pea-green in colour with an aromatic earthy tone. In term of flavours and texture, it had a slight peppery and floral aroma to it plus the crisps are real crispy and fresh tasting without the heavy-handed salt seasoning. How would I rate it? I could easily finish at least half a can over my favourite TV program with some self-control on my part. :D