Irvins Salted Egg Fish Skin
Salted egg everything is the “food trend” these days. Just have a look around and you can see they have sprinkled almost every food item imaginable with salted egg yolks. From easy recipes up to popular snacks, everybody is going crazy with this yummy item these days.
Unluckily for me, it seems that it is not as hyped up as it is here in Dublin. So imagine my frustration seeing my Facebook page filled with everything salted egg yolk. Most of my Facebook friends are still in Asia so they are in-tune with all these things. And times like these, it makes me feel a little bit bad not to be near food that I love.
Despite that, I had a friend who came over from Singapore and spent a few days with us. Of course, we invited her over to stay with us so when she asked what sort of “gift” we want – I didn’t hesitate to tell her I wanted some of these hyped up salted egg snacks!
She arrived with two packets of Irvins salted egg snacks: potato chips and fish skin. I believe that there are a lot of salted egg snack items in Singapore right now or has been there ages ago but Irvins is the hottest brand out there in the market these days.
For this review, I am going to write about the Salted Egg Fish Skin from Irvins. To be honest, I was a bit worried when I saw she bought this pack. It is the first time for me to eat fish skin as a snack and while I do not mind it on my meal, I don’t know what to expect if I am to look for something just to munch on to snack. I somehow wished she bought two packets of the potato chips variant instead but then, it is time to try something different, right?
We opened this bag of fish skin snack last night to accompany our congee. I thought the crispiness would be a perfect match to add a bit of texture to our gooey meal. And in my mind, in case there is any fishiness to it, we can easily “drown it” with the almost bland taste from the congee.
I took my first bite and all I can say is, I got hooked! If I didn’t look at the snack or if I was eating it in the dark, I would mistake it for potato chips, to be honest. There’s no fishy after taste and the texture was really nice and crisp. And similar to the salted egg yolk potato chips, it wasn’t too salty! So, you guessed it right that I almost finished the entire bag in just one sitting!
Overall, I am extremely pleased with this. Lovely to eat as a snack or paired up as a side dish. I don’t mind having it both ways anyway. The delicate flavor of the salted egg paired up with the slight spiciness from the chili makes it difficult to stop anyway!
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Mmmhh am just trying to imagine what it tastes like. If I may ask is it the actual skin from fish or is something else added. Am imagining it must be crunchy like crisps if am not wrong and maybe it's deep fried? I would like to know how they are made from scratch maybe that way I will have an idea about what everyone is on about fish skin. Otherwise I know how it feels when you are away from home and you get to see posts of good that you love back at home and can't have it, it's not a very good feeling but at least you got to sample and you loved it lucky you.
Yeah, it is made from real fish skin - you can see it from the "crisps" when eating it. So the only additive would be the salted egg seasoning mix that they used. I am thinking it is deep fried because it is super crispy. There has been lots of tutorials around making these snacks but I don't think I'd even try. That's just a lot of fish!
I have never had something like this before. It looks delicious by the looks of it, and also by the description of it that you have clearly elaborated here in your blog post. I might have tried this thing as well as I am open to experimenting but I don't know if it will be available in the local market where I live. I have had fish chips before and that's very delicious too. Can't seem to compare the two as I haven't tasted this yet.
Thanks for you review. :)