Posts Tagged ‘snacks’

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.

Gwaja from South Korea: Lotte Leaf Pie

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

자연을 닮은 립파이. The Korean says it’s filled with nature. Get it? Not only is it shaped like a leaf…

Lotte Leaf Pie from South Korea

I enjoyed eating this… Leaf Pie from the Lotte company of South Korea. The label also calls it a premium pastry pie. But mass-produced of course.

There are about 6 or 8 individually foil-wrapped leaf-shaped pastries in the box, which says it sells for 2,000 Korean won in South Korea. I was able to buy it at Gaju Market on sale for 99 American cents. Probably because the expiration date is October 2009.

Ingredients: wheat flour, margarine, sugar, wheat-gluten powder, butter, skimmed milk powder, maple sugar syrup, refined salt, mixed seasoning food, artificial flavor (butter), acidity controller, vitamin E, shortening, cinnamon powder, beata-carotene

Allergy information: contains wheat, soy bean, milk powder

Nutrition Facts: Serving Size: 3 pieces (29 grams). 2.5 servings per container. Each serving contains 145 calories, 80 from fat. Total fat 7 grams, 4g fromsaturated. No trans fat. Less than 5 milligrams of cholesterol. Sodium 65mg. Total Carbohydrate 19 grams, 1g dietary fiber, 6g sugars. Protein 2 grams. Percent Daily Values: No vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium or iron.

Manufactured by Lotte Confectionery Co., Ltd. Seoul, Korea. Tel: USA 213-688-8806. Korea 2-2635-8722. UPC 8 801062 248896.