Lay's Roasted Fish Flavor potato chips

T&T Supermarket does stock some oriental flavours of Lay's potato chips, but not Roasted Fish Flavor (the localized label however reads "Lay's Crispy Baked Fish Flavoured Potato Chips").

At a mere 70 grams, this was priced at $5.99 at Dank Mart before tax. Although this price looks steep, some Chinese Lay's chips at T&T are also priced over $5 and you certainly want to compare prices with T&T in the case where T&T also stocks the same product.

The initial taste impression was a sweetness and saltiness close to your typical "BBQ flavour" chips, but also a clear flavour very reminiscent of the crispy skin of a baked fish.

Novelty? Yes. Winner? Not necessarily. I definitely think there's a strong possibility of this being an acquired taste.

This was one of my three Mother's Day buys: My mom likes chips and chili, so for Mother's Day I looked around for some hopefully products I was reasonably certain she wouldn't be able to find at a mainstream supermarket like T&T or Superstore. I ended up at Dank Mart for chips-sold-in-other-countries and Lucifer's House of Heat for a couple of hot sauces.

I also found out that novelty costs. A lot.

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