Studio Socio Hula’s Maui Chips Garlic Shrimp

Garlic shrimp is one of Hawaii’s most iconic dishes — and one of its most specific ones. It is not a restaurant dish.

It is a food truck dish, served from roadside stands along the North Shore of Oahu, piled onto plates with rice and butter, fragrant with garlic cooked until golden and just beginning to crisp at the edges.

The shrimp are plump, the garlic is generous, and the whole thing smells like it belongs outdoors in warm air. Hula’s Maui Chips put that experience onto a kettle chip, and the result is one of the most distinctive flavors in the lineup.

What makes this Maui Chips Garlic Shrimp work is the layering of the seafood component. Okiami — the small, intensely flavored dried shrimp that forms the backbone of many Japanese and Asian seasonings — contributes a deep, concentrated marine umami that goes further than shrimp powder alone.

Shrimp powder follows, adding a cleaner, sweeter prawn character above it. Fish sauce powder completes the seafood foundation with a fermented, savory depth that anchors everything and gives the flavor its particular richness.

Together they build a profile that reads as genuinely oceanic rather than simply seasoned.

Garlic arrives assertively and stays — pepper and chili add a measured heat that builds slowly; powdered soy sauce provides a dark, savory thread beneath the spice; paprika contributes warmth and color.

Yeast extract ties the whole seasoning together with a lingering umami that keeps the flavor present well past the last bite.

Rich, aromatic, and unapologetically bold — a chip that brings North Shore to wherever you happen to be eating it.

About this item
Item Name : Hula’s Maui Chips Garlic Shrimp
Brand : Studio Socio
Item Form : Potato Chips
Number of Items : 125g (Pack of 1)