Posts Tagged ‘chocolate-flavored snacks’

Lotte Choco Pie – Premium Quality

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Finally! Got around to this. I had previously posted about Lotte’s “Premium Ghana” choco pie, but have neglected this, their standard choco pie, which by the way is sub-labeled Premium Quality.

Lotte Choco Pie - Box and Wrapper

“Fill your mouth with a pleasure of rich chocolate flavor everyday.”

It seems Lotte is second only to Orion in terms of the leading brand of choco-pie. I can barely tell the difference. I think Orion’s original invention is squishier. Non-Koreans will say that the less squish the better, but there’s so much nostalgia that Koreans associate with the squishiness.

There are six individually packed moon pies in one box, each pie weighing 28 grams (5.92 ounces). Ingredients: wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, vegetable fat, shortening, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, cocoa powder, lactose, sodium bicarbonate (E500), lecithin, vanillin, vanilla flavor, vegetable oil (palm), sorbitol (E420).

Nutrition Facts: Serving Size: one 28-gram package. Calories 125, 50 from fat. Total fat: 6 grams, 4g saturated. No trans fat. No cholesterol. Sodium 62 milligrams. Total Carbohydrate 18 g — dietary fiber 0.3g, sugars 10g. Protein 1 g. No Vitamin A or C. Calcium 1%. Iron 1%.

Allergy Information: contains milk, wheat, soybean

Manufactured by Lotte Confectionery Co., Ltd. 23, 4KA, Yangpyung-dong, Youngdeungpo-ku, Seoul, Korea. UPC Bar Code Number 8 801062 161881

Keep cool under 22 degrees centigrade and dry moisture 55% in storage and transportation.

The box is chock-full of information in different languages — Vietnamese, Russian Cyrillic, Traditional Chinese for the Taiwanese market, Arabic…

Pictures of other products in the Lotte Family: Chocolate Funzels, Kancho, Custard, Dream Cakes (none of which I have tried…)

Haitai Oh Yes Choco Cake from Korea

Friday, September 18th, 2009

I love Oh Yes! Fond memories from Korea. The box says “Brand New” and there does seem to be an updating of the design but the taste and texture are as I remember them.

Haitai Oh Yes Choco Cake Box

One box contains a dozen individually wrapped square cakes. Each square cake is a sandwich of chocolatey filling between two slices of sponge cake, and the whole thing is enrobed in chocolate and then decorated with a drizzle of even darker chocolate. I’ll take this over chocopie any day!

“Presents for your delicious taste. Enjoy your happy times. World Best Quality.” Not very healthful, needless to say.

Ingredients: white sugar, wheat flour, egg, HYRDOGENATED VEGETABLE OIL, cocoa preparation, shortening, glucose, corn syrup, fructose, margarine. cocoa powder.

Allergy information: contains soybeans, wheat, milk.

Nutrition Facts: 1 piece (28 grams) is 140 calories, 72 from fat. Total Fat 8 grams, 4.6 g saturated, 0.16 g trans fat. Total Carbohydrate 15 grams, 2.8 g dietary fiber, 9 g sugars. Protein 2 grams. Cholesterol 12 milligrams. Sodium 80 milligrams. No vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium or iron.

Lethal. Imagine what it would do to your heart’s blood vessels if you ate a whole box of 12 in one sitting. No one would do such a thing!

UPC Code 0 20914 80621 5. Product of Korea. Batch Number 0481. Imported and Distributed by USA Haitai Inc. 7227 Telegraph Road, Montebello, California 90640.

Label also has a lot of information in other languages — Russian Cyrillic, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese… Box also says it’s imported into the Philippines and Canada. The only Hangul I spotted was 오예스 (Oh Yes).

Aside from the desire to taste once again the yumminess of these snacks, what convinced me to buy it despite my knowing that it’s the least nutritious thing you could possibly eat was the fact that it was on sale at Gaju Market for just $1.99 — that’s quite a steal.