Riska Umaiwa Corn Puff Snacks Mentai

Mentai — spicy salted pollock roe — is one of the most popular flavor categories in Japanese snack culture, and the Umaibo mentai variety has been one of the top-selling flavors in the lineup since the beginning.

Umaiwa takes that same seasoning and puts it into the ring format: same bold, slightly spicy mentai powder coating, different shape and a lot more of it per bag.

The flavor opens with the characteristic aroma of mentai the moment the bag is torn — concentrated and immediate, the kind of smell that signals exactly what you’re in for.

The taste follows: savory and lightly spicy, with the rounded umami depth of pollock roe powder working through each piece as the corn puff dissolves.

Not aggressively hot, but present enough to build as you keep eating. The kind of heat that makes you reach for the next piece rather than slow down.

The ring format means each piece coats more surface area with seasoning than the stick version, which is part of why regular Umaibo eaters tend to find this version more intensely flavored than they expect.

At 75g a bag, it is significantly more volume than a handful of individual Umaibo sticks — the format for when one or two pieces was never going to be enough.

About this item
Item Name : Umaiwa Mentai
Brand : Riska
Item Form : Snacks
Number of Items : 75g (Pack of 1)