Thursday 12 February 2015

Snack Review: Bourbon Choco Milk Chocolate chips

Sorry for the long delay in posts...I've been busy securing my sets of Chupa Chups pens. I'll definately show them off when they arrive. I'm quite in love with the design!

Today, though, I'll be doing a Japanese snack review on Bourbon Choco Milk Chocolate Chips. Until very recently, I use to think chocolate covered chips were weird. The combination of a very salty snack with a very sweet one sounded like it would be extremely rich and to be frank, a bit sickening. But then my local Japanese store started selling Royce chips and I tried it and was sold for life. Unfortunately, no photos of Royce yet, so I'm going to review another popular brand of chocolate covered chips - Bourbon.


Bourbon chocolate chips come in a cute, small little tub. The design is very luxurious with golden Japanese font and pictures of pools of chocolate dripping onto chips.


To open the container, you just peel off the top and you have access to Milk chocolate covered chips. Bourbon packaging is much smaller than Royce packaging, which places the chips into square boxes, double the size of the Bourbon tubs. The plus side of this (aside from not being made to over-eat) is that Bourbon chips are cheaper. In Australia, Bourbon chocolate chips are $4.50-$5.00, while Royce chips are a dear $17.00 per pack.


In regards to Bourbon 'chips', I say the term very loosely. They're not so much chips, but puffier, salty crackers in the shape of crinkle cut chips. Definately not like the potato chips produced by Royce. Do they taste bad? No, not really. Especially not with the chocolate covering. But they're definately not your traditional chip and will disappoint those looking for the conventional potato taste. But I like these crackers enough to keep eating the little treats. They're pretty much as salty and crunchy as regular chips, so I don't feel that they lack in a 'chip' taste at all.


As for the chocolate, it is creamy Japanese milk chocolate. I prefer Japanese chocolate to American chocolate, like Hershey's and Reece's. I feel that it has a fresher, creamier taste...more aligned to European chocolate, which I really like. Bourbon chocolate has a rich taste, but is not bitter. The chips are covered just enough to make them deliciously sweet and crunchy. If they're curled in the middle, there's more chocolate. Something to look forward to? I think so.

Overall, Bourbon Choco Milk Chocolate Chips score a 7/10. Sweet n' salty fun.