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.
