- Snack Swaps destroyed the one thing I loved,
in showing me that there's something better.
It's not my fault.
- Hey.
No, it's okay.
- It's okay. - Joyce
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- So Malaysia very diverse.
We have Chinese, Indians, and Malays.
And so each different ethnic group
tend to have their own different snack.
- Have you tried Malaysian snacks?
- No, I once had a trip booked to Malaysia
and I didn't end up getting to go.
- Well now you got a full Malaysian experience.
- Yeah.
- You got a Malaysian person and some snacks.
- Exactly.
- Oh my gosh, I know this snack.
- Yeah?
Can we talk about the baby,
the naked baby on the package?
- Muruku means like a fried snack.
And then Ikan means fish.
Fish snack.
- So this might not taste similar at all,
but the same concept.
- I feel like I ate these a ton when I was a child.
It's the healthy snack that smiles back
until you bite their heads off.
- That's such a gruesome jingle for kids.
- I know!
- So I'm gonna hand this to you.
- And this is for you.
- Ooh.
- [Both] One, two, three.
- Okay! (bell dings)
- This actually doesn't taste that different from Goldfish.
- I think it's very dangerous
cause you can easily keep eating them.
- If I ever meet a person who can only eat one goldfish,
they would scare the living crap out of me.
- These I would love to put like, in a soup.
- It's cold outside and grandma like,
"Honey I'm gonna make you some soup baby."
And then she put these right next to my damn soup.
- I just don't even taste the cheese, I just taste the salt.
I do have some favorite American snacks,
but this is not one of them.
Sorry, Goldfish.
- Who wins today?
- She does, and I'm not gonna try to pronounce it.
But, I love this, it's really good.
I love Chili Cheese Fritos.
I put it on my burger, I put it on my exes.
- I've never had it before.
- What?
You don't love yourself
until you put a Chili Cheese Frito in your mouth.
What do you got for me?
- Bika chicken-flavored snacks.
- I don't even need to put it like near my nose
I can just smell it when I opened it.
- Yeah I know.
I can smell those more than I can smell these from here.
- I feel like you would really
have to enjoy it by eating a few.
- Look at our wedding cake.
- Ooh! - Mm!
This is good together.
- There ya go.
- [Both] One, two, three, four, five.
- I mean I would do that when I'm at home alone.
- This is like new relationship between countries.
- We are a family.
- Which one would you prefer?
- I mean I guess it depends on my mood.
If I was drunk, I would eat the hell out of these.
- Oh yeah.
- I actually believe that they both win.
I think they taste better together.
Chicken chili cheese.
Growing up as a kid, my mom would make ramen noodles
and I just like, "Ooh this tastes cheap."
So instead, I would just eat it
just straight out the package
because it felt more like a snack instead of a meal.
- Oh, this is called Mamee Monster.
- I wanna be a Mamee Monster.
- And the special thing about this
is that it's specifically marketed and sold
as a noodle snack to eat crunch dry.
- Oh, wow.
- People usually like crush it up and then you shake it.
- This is great I didn't even know people
ate dried ramen as a snack.
- Yeah. - That's so cool.
- Ooh, that's actually really good.
- Yeah? - Uh-huh.
- Are those crunchier?
- Yeah, let's see.
Yeah, these are crunchier.
- A bit more like intentionally made to be a snack.
- This is wrong.
It's not same way as Malaysian ramen, you know what I mean?
- Malaysia wins.
I knew we were gonna have some of these.
- Small in size, but packs a punch.
- This is like the kind of candy you get
from your grandma and grandpa.
It's not the best candy, but here we are.
- Well, ditto.
- Oh, this is nothing I was expecting.
- This reminds me of like medicine.
- [Both] Cheers.
- I know what this tastes like.
That fruit leather that you get at Trader Joe's.
- That's what I'm talking about, yeah.
- It tastes just like that.
- Exactly, the fruit leather.
- I really like it.
- You really like it?
- Do you like the taste and flavor though?
- I do, I think the consistency is what threw me off.
I thought it was gonna be more chocolate wafer-y.
But it was more fruity wafer-y.
- I just feel like I'm eating medicine.
- So, which one would you choose?
- I think between the two,
I would pick Malaysia's Haw Flakes.
It's more unique and it has a special spot for me too.
- I'm gonna pick the Smarties
only because I was just expecting a different consistency.
The Haw Flakes, the taste is fire.
- Look at the size.
- Bubblicious, this is like a staple of my childhood, too.
It only has flavor for maybe 10 seconds,
but it's good for blowing big bubbles.
- I used to eat these like crazy.
My dad would be like, "That's too much gum in your mouth."
And then he would throw it in the trash.
I was like five so I'd take it out the trash
and put it in the freezer.
(laughing)
- Let's try it.
This kind of reminds me of Bazooka gum.
- Wait, there's a tattoo.
- Wait. - I forgot about this.
- Look at how thick that is.
- This is-- - That's insane.
- Ew!
I'm the best tattoo artist that ever existed.
- This is so good.
- You like that?
- It's more floral.
- Yeah let's do a bubble-blowing test.
- Okay whatever, Bubblicious is meant for bubbles.
- Oh!
(laughing)
- So which one do you pick?
- Bubble quality wise, yeah, I get with that.
- Yeah.
- If you're trying to get a tattoo, Malaysian bubble gum.
- Yeah. - Two in one.
- I like how things were similar,
but so different at the same time.
- I actually really loved all of the Malaysian ones.
- That Monster snack, I'm totally ordering it online.
- What was that called?
- Mamee Monster.
- Mamee Monster was so good.
- I forgot how much I miss
some of the snacks I've had from home.
It was a real nice kickback through memory lane.
- What was your favorite of the American ones?
- I would say the Fritos.
- Chili cheese fries, sorry chili cheese Cheetos.
- Every time you're drunk, think of me.
- In the club tonight, we should go.
- In the club tonight.
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