Fizzy Spök!

These candies taste as crazy as they look! They're filled with fizzy powder that attacks your tongue. We really loved them, but be warned, eat too many and your tongue might be numb for a while.

Fizzy! Fruity! Sweet!

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Sunflower Spök

Sunflower seeds are a pretty traditional Chinese snack. Drinking cups of tea while cracking roasted sunflower seeds is a favorite way to spend an afternoon in front of the TV or chatting around the table. Usually they are just made with salt and maybe five spice. When these "creamy" extra big ones came out a few years ago they became all the rage!

People also loved the old timey look of the packaging.

Salty! Five Spicy! Creamy?! Snappy!

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Dressing Crisps!

These super crunchy crispy rice snacks are yummy! They're our favorite rice crackers. The Dressing Flavoring is also delicious, if slightly mysterious.

Crunchy! Salty! Crispy! Dressing-y!

A+

Cracker Nuts!

I'm glad someone came up with an English name for these. For years I just called these peanuts with a crunchy coating "super crunchies." In Chinese they are called "fish skin peanuts." But they're not fishy!

They also have all kinds of crazy flavors now. Adobo is the favorite around the Spök-spök HQ.

Super crunchie! Salty! Peanut-y!

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Kalles Kaviar!

Spök-spök and Spökelina brought Toofhairy Mini (who will hit the stores in a few weeks!) to IKEA in Brooklyn today.


They got some Kalles Kaviar, which is a Swedish delicacy for the refined palette. It's basically creamed caviar, and they got both the dill version and the cheese version.

Salty, fishy, dilly, and cheesy! Delicious!

Grade: A+!

Pucca!

Here's Morot (the Swedish carrot) showing us his favorite snack!

Puccas are pretzel shells shaped like fish! They are filled with yummy chocolate. Of all the adorable chocolate filled cracker snacks out there, these are our favorite.

Crunchy! Creamy! Chocolate-y! NOT fishy!

Grade: A+

Oh Toofhairy

Remember when Toofhairy said her favorite food was lasagna?

Now she says it's enchiladas!

We think she just loves anything with cheeeeeeese!!

Double Cream?? Of course!!

Yan Yan is a tube of crunchy cracker sticks you can dip. The pack comes with creamy frosting, usually strawberry or chocolate. Then they invented Double Cream! I don't think I need to explain what that is.

Crunchy! Sweet! Chocolate-y! Strawberry-y!

Grade: B+

Baron Broad Bean!

I think the broad (fava) bean often gets a bad rap.

These broad beans deep fried with garlic and salt are popular all over China. It's one of our favorite snacks here at Spök-spök HQ.

Crunchy! Salty! Garlic-y!

Grade: A+

We had a problem with them disappearing so we set up a spy camera... guess what it caught?

Happy Moon Day!

It's moon day! The official name is Mid-Autumn Festival, but it's all about the full moon.

Moon day is a special day when the whole family gathers together after dinner, drinks some tea, and "admires the moon." Like every good holiday it revolves around love and pastry.


There is a legend involving 10 suns, archery, gods, love and immortality. But the pastry is what everyone really cares about!

Moon cakes are dense and puck shaped. They are filled with anything from red bean and lotus paste to egg yokes or meat. Usually a whole family shares just one or 2 moon cakes. We've only ever known one person to eat a whole moon cake by himself (We're looking at you Daniel!)

Cheese!

Toofhairy is from Scotland; then she lived in Sweden as an au pair toof.

So it makes perfect sense that her favorite food would be lasagna!