"Umai Bou" Corn Snack

Let me debut my first "sweet" post with salty snack!

Although I grew up in Asia, I discovered snack "Umai Bou" (うまい棒) in the states. They are basically puffy corn snack. Literal translation of this snack is "Yum Stick".

Yay! This is my weekend snack!

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1. Umaibou

It comes with several kind of flavor (pizza flavor, corn pottage flavor and so on). My absolute favorite is corn pottage flavor - yellow packaging with sweet corn image. It's one of my daughter's favorite snack as well.

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