As most of you know by now, Hochi has made it home from South Korea (and a brief moment in North Korea, as well). He brought back some super fun goodies for me, and some for himself!
As soon as I can get him to let me spend an afternoon taking pictures of him in clothing, I'll show you what he brought home for himself (so probably don't count on that in the next week or so).
First things first, I was perusing a list of highly recommended Korean snack foods for Hochi, and stumbled upon some Honey Butter chips. I asked H if he could find them, would he pretty please try to bring a bag back?
He searched all over, not knowing what I now know, they are incredibly popular, and most stores that have them don't even display them.
He sent me a message saying "Hey, I didn't find Honey Butter, but I found something called Honey Tong Tong, and the bag looks exactly the same!" I'm all about trying new things, so I said "Close enough! I'm down!"
I opened them and tried them last night, and they are very good, interesting and strong flavor, but good. I certainly would not put away an entire bag of them on my own like I would BBQ chips... they are that ... sweet, almost. Hochi says they are kind of like the Lay's create a flavor, they are great and you like them, but you can't eat many at once and they don't really go with anything.
I looked up what Tong Tong was for this post and came across some interesting information. These are actually sort of a "knockoff" of the actual honey butter chips, but by the same company. Tong Tong can translate to a hopping sound..or chubby, and since these are almost a fluffy chip, compared to the OG honey butter.... it makes sense that it would be chubby.
10/10 recommend but share with a friend...or five.
We kind of tasted a corn aftertaste, but that might just be because corn is on the bag.
Up next we have Honey Butter Almonds (adorable packaging game is strong SK).
10/10 recommend, don't bring friends, don't show them to friends, keep all the bags in the world as your own and fill your face with them.
they taste like honey, butter, and almond.
Up next we have the famous "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" tag key chain, only this one has a sweet Thunderbirds embroidery on the other side.
Y'all, I LOVE the Thunderbirds.
This is pretty self explanatory, BARB is my "callsign" and this is a name tag!
This is a luggage tag, swamp fox on one end, Viper on the other (recognize that view?) and my name in the middle, can not wait to use this for traveling!!
I don't have a lot of info on this one yet, cause I have not tried it. I am told that the one on the left (you know... that says energy on it) is an energy drink, and on the right is Soju (like a vodka) and in Korea its popular to mix the two with some sprite in a kettle, and then shots for errrone.
Trust me, as soon as I try this, apparently glorious and dangerous mixture, I will tell you all about it.
Last, but certainly not least:
That South Korea Louis Vuitton special, super secret squirrel like, ya know?
He picked it out himself, and did a great job if you ask me. You'll have to ask him for that story though.
Now, if you don't mind, I am going to get back to watching Harry Potter weekend, listening to the dulcet tones of Hermine (the storm, not Hermione) and trying to keep Hochi awake, just a little longer to held him adjust to the time difference.
Fly Safe,
Barb
