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2016-05-01
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There's a new queue in town and that queue is found at the new Calbee Plus. What? Yes, Calbee, the popular Japanese potato chip brand that you can find in pretty much every place in Hong Kong. What's with the "plus"? The plus is you can get fresh fried potato chips. Yes, fresh from the fryer to your mouth. Fresh.The original Calbee Plus is from Japan with several locations including, of course, Tokyo. There they have a whole lot more flavors to choose from. However, since this is Hong Kong, they
The original Calbee Plus is from Japan with several locations including, of course, Tokyo. There they have a whole lot more flavors to choose from. However, since this is Hong Kong, they are a lot more limited in flavor selections.
Located in the new The Avenue, there seems to always be a queue of people waiting to order. Especially if you come on the weekends, expect at least a 2 hour wait. But boyfriend and I came on a weekday and there was no one in line. Perhaps also combined with the fact it was raining like cats and dogs. So, in we went for our fresh fried potato chips!
The store is named "Okashi Galleria" instead of Calbee Plus. This is due to the fact that Okashi Land runs this instead of the actual Japanese Calbee company. They only have franchise of this concept. But the Calbee Plus counter is located inside the shop. The rest of the shop is where they sell Calbee type chips. The majority are not made in Japan. This was a bit disappointing as you get a better selection of made in Japan Calbee at your local 759 Store. What they sell here is the Calbee not made in Japan that you can find at Wellcome or Park n Shop.
Menu is in Chinese and English. You choose the type of potato chip (wave cut or not wave cut), the flavor (typhoon shelter, BBQ, with cheese or with chocolate sauce) and if you want it with ice cream. They also have potato sticks, soft serve ice cream and drinks. You pay at the cashier and wait for your chips to be made.
Behind this window is where all the action is! You can see everything behind the glass window.
Here they fry those chips!
The cute little guys just bathing in oil.
The staff will then push the chips to one side where they will get sucked up onto the wired rack.
Then you'll see these little guys float along the rack for a quick air dry so they don't feel greasy when you eat them.
Typhoon Shelter Spicy Wave Cut Potato Chips ($29). We chose this flavor as it was a Hong Kong exclusive. Choosing wavy cut because I love ripple chips. This was extremely spicy. I didn't expect it to be so spicy but it was. You have been warned if you can't eat spicy. I thought it was ok. Nothing really special. The potato chips were crispy. But I didn't know the difference between something from a bag and something I paid for that cost a quarter amount of what I get from a bag. But boyfriend (who tried this in Tokyo) said the one in Japan was still piping hot and super awesome. He said this was not even 1% as good as the one in Japan. So, I guess I have to go to Tokyo and try it out.
Poterico Original Potato Chips ($32). These were REALLY good as they were warm and fluffy. They were exactly like French fries. Which is ... well, what this fry in the regular out of the bag version is supposed to be. Of course, they also cost more than your regular fry and smaller portion size. I couldn't get enough of these ones. I chose regular but I should have chosen cheese. I wonder if that would have been even better? Guess I'll have to return to try cheese next time.
I liked it enough and worth if if you don't have to queue up. It's fun to see the chips being fried. I especially liked the Poeterico chips the most. I would be back. Of course, if there is no one in line.
张贴
