Golden Oolong Popcorn

So I first had this (and the other flavour) MONTHS ago at the start of the year, and at first I just put off writing the tasting notes because I was lazy and then because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write a food tasting note or not even though I’ve done it in the past…

So, I tried to forget about it and just move on but every time I have a back up of queued tasting notes I just can’t help but think about how I really should write about these too. So I’m just fucking doing it today so I can get them out of my head!

This, and the black tea counterpart, are basically prepackaged bags of popcorn sold by this bubble tea company that are coated in a tea powder based topping. I actually liked both of them a lot, but this was the one I preferred. In terms of colour it’s a pretty green shade of tea powder and it actually looks a lot like matcha. I’ve seen ground oolong powder before and for a greener oolong it is pretty similar in colour though. What I find interesting is that, going off memory, the black tea packaging specifically listed black tea powder in the ingredients but I believe this one just listed “tea powder” so it could potentially be matcha or a combination of matcha and oolong powders…

The taste is good – very matcha like in that it’s a more umami forward vegetal/grassy type flavour. It’s also pretty sweet, and very buttery. Easy to snack on, deceptively caffeinated, and quite yummy!