Not a boba snack, but I’m finally getting around to actually opening another Taiwan snack I bought almost a year ago (oops!). It’s popcorn! It’s a packaged snack though, and the lady assured me that unopened the contents would last for a while. I was at Taiwan station with my grandma to go eat at the food court, and we came across this popcorn brand cart selling and offering samples of their popcorn. They all tasted pretty good and had some interesting flavors. My grandma encouraged me to get the three pack, so after sampling some I chose corn soup (the most popular and won that one superior taste award I kept seeing everywhere), strawberry milk, and tieguanyin, plus a freebie small bag of the original. Tieguanyin is tea adjacent, so I’m writing about it here.
The kernels themselves are very round and a bit small, and from the looks of them they’re pretty heavily dusted. Generally, they have that hard, kettle corn sugar coating to them that gives them a sweet crunch, but otherwise, the actual tea flavor is a bit hit or miss. The most obvious flavor you get is sweetness, and then sometimes a vary faint aftertaste of actual tieguanyin flavor. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely there, but I would definitely like it to be up front more.
For some reason the other flavors clearly label what flavor it is but tieguanyin bag doesn’t, but that’s fine. No post on the other two, but I remember really liking all of the ones I tried.
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Waaa, after a year! Hopefully it’s still good!
It was !
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I purchased this popcorn from a Magi Planet stand at Taipei Station on the food court/restaurant floor! I’m not sure if it’s a permanent booth, but they make a ton of cool popcorn flavors (the corn soup, strawberry milk, and tieguanyin are all very good). Their corn soup won an award apparently! At the time, there was a campaign that if you bought three big bags you get a small one for free! The popcorn is round and coated in the sugar flavoring, like a kettle corn is. Tieguanyin popcorn seems to be a thing around Taiwan though, because I found a different brand selling different tea flavors in a shop on Yongkang street!