Chochungu-gua is a puffed rice snack from Korea. It looks like the stuff being poured on it is honey, but there is no honey in the ingredients, only various forms of sugar.
At first when you try Chochungu-gua it seems bland and not very sweet but that doesn’t keep you from reaching for another. Bam! Before you realize it, you’ve finished off the entire bag (which is supposed to contain 3 servings). Kind of like Gerber puffs; they don’t taste like much and it seems like you wouldn’t want to continue eating them, but somehow your hand keeps reaching for more. Unlike Puffs it is high in saturated fat which makes this technically a sometimes food. On the other hand, I’ve decided that one shouldn’t worry about nutritional value of ethnic foods since it makes me feel like a Food Adventurer. Domestic Cheetos – bad, maybe a little trashy. Foreign Cheeto Equivalent – dashing and cosmopolitan!
And to wash it down, I got a five pack of “Soft Drink” again from Korea.
Notice it has “Asian Taste”. That’s fierce.
And a delightful paragraph of Engrish description on the back!
The bottle is tiny and cute in its vaguely medicinal way.
The color wasn’t very enticing and it seemed to lack the full body that one expects in a yogurt drink.
Alas, it did not taste very good, too sweet, too thin, oddly sour in a not good way. I took one sip and poured the rest down the sink. Good thing it was a small bottle so I wasn’t wasting much. Today my health is unbalanced, so I might try and slam one down without tasting it. Or make some Korean medicine tea – chunky style! (Coming soon to the Museum of snack foods, even though technically medicine is not a snack)
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