There are only three ingredients in these chips, potatoes, vegetable oil and salt. This is a great example of where technique and quality of ingredients can either make or break a snack. The three ingredients are exactly what you would expect to be in a bag of chips, so there’s nothing stopping this from being the best bag of chips ever. Well almost nothing.

As I said before, this is a test of technique and quality of ingredients. I would say that it seems like the quality of ingredients is probably okay. I say this because Myanmar (where these chips are from) produces perfectly good potatoes, oils (mostly peanut oil but also some other oils) and salt. There’s no reason that these chips shouldn’t be great, but they’re not. I wouldn’t call them horrible, but there were a few things about them that just didn’t sit well with me.

First and foremost they tasted very oily. I’m not an expert in the manufacturing of potato chips on a large scale, but I do know that there are processes that can make a chip more or less oily and I feel like these did no follow any of them. Maybe it’s a cultural thing and people from Myanmar like an oily chip, but I don’t care for them. I feel like these could also use a little more salt. I’ll be honest, I like salty foods and I would probably say that about almost any chip brand unless they were really salty.

The final problems are about texture. Most obviously these chips seem to be cut very thin. Maybe some people like super thin chips, but I like a little bit of depth myself. When they’re this thin they almost seem to shatter in your mouth, which isn’t great. Most peculiar however is I seemed to come across several chips that had almost a plastic texture to them. I have no idea how this happens, but every so often it just felt like I was eating something not made of potato.

I didn’t hate these chips, and I ate the whole bag. I also don’t love these chips, and I probably won’t buy them again.