and I was living in Iwate Prefecture

It's at the top of Honshuu island. Not the very top but pretty close

So it's a pretty cold area, very beautiful

But, the first Japanese snack that I ever fell in love with was...

THESE! These are Wasabeef

Wasabeef: Wasabi & Beef flavoured potato chips

And I was just sooo in love with these

I think I made my first cell phone mail address

So I was just so in love with this chips

and I've always liked them since then

Yesterday I was at the supermarket and I found these!

So these are the original, and these are the ones I found yesterday

What these are is wasabi-nuki Wasabeef

"without wasabi" These are Wasabeef without the wasabi

Which leaves you with Beef & Beef... so these are beef flavour

I really wanted to try them

These are so "natsukashii" for me

When I see a new version of them, I just have to try it

At the top here it says: We listened to your requests and started selling these!

I guess this is the Twitter account of the company that makes these

apparently they got lots of requests for wasabi-nuki Wasabeef

So I hope they're good! Let's try them!

First I'm going to try the originals and try my best to explain the flavour to you guys

They just look like regular potato chips

Nothing really special about the appearance

kinda orange

itadakimasu!

They're so good!

They're very similar to a barbecue flavoured chip

Kinda sweet

Then just a slight hint of wasabi flavour

They're not super spicy or anything

But I always feel like when you get near the bottom of the bag your mouth is just starting to burn

I love these so much

And the chips themselves are really flaky and...

Hard to explain... they're not super crunchy they're just like

flaky... like a flaky pie crust kind of

Please try these if you come to Japan, can't recommend them enough

Alright, now for the wasabi-nuki Wasabeef

Beef & Beef flavour

I'm excited

Oh they look the same!

Oh these ones are a little less orange! Which is interesting... pretty similar though

itadakimasu!

They taste completely different!

Whoaaa...

I wasn't expecting them to taste this different

They're a really subtle flavor and they really do taste like beef

they definitely have a meaty flavour to them

the Wasabeef ones, not so much. It's kinda like a smokey BBQ kinda flavour

But these definitely taste like beef

I don't really like these, the flavour is really subtle

They're okay

They're okay... they still have the same awesome texture of the originals, which I like

But the flavour itself isn't very good

on the back here it's got a funny story explaining how this whole wasabi-nuki Wasabeef started

It started out as an April Fool's joke on the Yamayoshi Seika twitter in 2014

But some people thought it would be interesting if they actually existed, so...

We promised to create wasabi-nuki Wasabeef if our tweet got 80,044 retweets

In the end we didn't reach that number, but it got retweeted over 41,000 times, more than expected

and we got replies like "I want to try them!" "Please actually make these!"

So we decided to start selling them!

Interesting! Well, that's how these came about

and I think that's really cool that they attempted making them just because everyone thought it'd be interesting

But I'm not very impressed with the flavour

They're ok! They're not bad.

It's just that these ones are so good that you can't really make anything better than them

So definitely try these, these are amazing

I hope they're around forever

So those were "Wasabeef potato chips"!

Thanks for watching guys, bye!