I was thrilled to find out I had three new boxes waiting for me at my door today. One of them was part of my snack box reviews for Canadians. This one is called
Universal Yum.
This box sends snacks from around the world, concentrating on one location per box. This box's location was the Philippines!
I like how they matched the tissue paper to the flag's colors. Universal Yum comes in two sizes:
Yum Box: 13$/box with 6 snacks per box
Yum Yum Box 25$/box with 12 snacks per box
Shipping is extra for Canadians (6.00$), but it's reasonable. I figure anything under 10.00$ shipping is good for Canadians.
Let's take a look at what we got:
Golden Sweet Corn snack is something I'm quite familiar with. I found these at the local grocery store a few years back and automatically grew addicted to it. It tastes exactly like corn on the cob but in a cheese-puff snack texture. Seriously can't go wrong by adding these in this box.
Boy Bawang Cornick Hot Garlic Flavor is another snack we're familiar with. It's one of Alex's favorites so these automatically went to him. These are corn nuts in spicy garlic flavor. They are quite garlicky, so beware, you may be stuck with bad breath for a long while after!
Ribbed Crackling Old Fashioned Salt & Vinegar is a new one for us. It is suggested to have them with beer but as I'm not a beer fan, I'll likely try these as is. I love anything salt and Vinegar, so no complaints here.
Fita is the Philippine version of Ritz according to the pamphlet and these have lemon cream sandwhiched between two crackers. I bet these are amazing!
Polvorons are shortbread cookies and Universal Yum included two flavors of these intriguing cookies. These ones are ube-flavored...translated, that means purple yam from the Philippines.
The second flavor is cookies and cream which is sure to be appreciated. Apparently these taste just like Oreos.
Pinky's Goodies Green Mango Butterscotch Bars sound pretty fantastic! We have two, so we both can try these out.
Pandan Cake seems a bit strange from the description :pandan is a plant grown in the Philippines that apparently has a sweet, bright and somewhat soapy taste. This snack is a sponge cake and Universal Yum advises us the cake is green in color, just so we don't think it is moldy (good thinking!)
Left is King Choc Nut (4) and it's a chocolate treat made of 5 ingredients: ground peanuts, milk powder, cocoa, vanilla and sugar and is comparable to M&Ms.
Right is Lipps Mango Candy which not only taste sweet but can also be used to paint the lips the candy's color (hence why it's named Lipps).
Left is Melon Dew Menthol Candy which mixes the flavors of honeydew melon and mint together. Sounds intriguing.
Right is XO Coffee Candy which is, as you can guess, a coffee-flavored candy.
That concludes the Universal Yum Yum Box for March 2016. As always, I welcome any comments or questions.
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