August is a joyous month as Singapore celebrates its 57th birthday. With spirits high and the love for our young national state strong, we reminisce the good old days of Singapore's past and how far we've come.
Talking to your parents and grandparents while flipping through old black and white photos will show you that Singapore food was as big of a thing then as it is now. Those who grew up in the 90s will remember what used to be the best childhood snack or Singaporean Snack. When we think of Singapore traditional snacks, our memories immediately navigate towards the street style snacks like the Singapore candy, ding dang tang, dragon beard, corn cups, muah chee, kachang puteh among so many others. But in fact as kids, we spent our time after school in mama shops (or what it felt like Willy Wonka's factory) gushing and choosing snacks to eat on our bus ride home.
Did you know that old school snacks or nostalagia snacks are NOW trendy and a new term "newstalgia" has been coined. The question is - how do you introduce "newstalgia" snacks to your family and friends who have never seen, heard or tried these snacks. For those that have tried it, how do you help them bring back memories and their childhood filled with happy memories, mementos and personal reminders of times when they grew up?
We will fill you in with the top 50 Singapore childhood snacks to try!
1) Marukawa bubble gum
2) Kaka corn snack
3) Haw flakes
4) Kacang puteh
5) Pop pop corn snack
6) Wheel crackers
7) Gem biscuit
8) Wang Wang xiao man tou
9) Cotton candy
10) Satay stick
11) Houten chilli tapioca chip
12) Pola snack
13) Bee Bee snack
14) Apollo chocolate stick wafer
15) Ring pop
16) Dinosaur egg candy
17) Super ring
18) Kaka
19) Mitsuya tasty biscuit
20) Ice kacang ball
21) Hiro chocolate cake
22) White rabbit candy
23) Butterfly biscuits
24) Ling mong candy
26) Tora chocolate
27) Chocolate eggs
28) Whistle candy
29) Ding dang chocolate
30) Ding ding candy
31) Planters cheese balls
32) Bika chicken crackers
33) Bibo dragon drink
34) Seaweed
35) Kinder surprise
36) Eyeglass chocolate drops
37) Poprocks
38) Choki Chocki
39) Wu Hua Guo preserved fruit
40) Warheads extreme sour candy
41) Ovaltine Sweets
42) Colorful pirng wafer biscuit
42) Apollo chocolate wafer
43) Animal biscuits
42) Biscuts from tin cans
43) Chicakadees
44) Bobdog cigarette candy
45) Colorful cup jellys
46) Kopiko candy
47) Colorful ice pops
48) Paddle pop
49) Malties candy
50) Fizzy Cola
Singapore childhood snacks are qurky, fun and yummy. We love Mamee noodle, polar snack, haw hee flakes, whistle candy, daifu dried cuttlefish strips, wheel crackers, ice gem biscuits, mom mom eyeglass candy are some of our absolute favourite Singapore biscuit and Singapore crackers.
Singapore Nostalgia Snack Box
As far as Singapore local snacks goes, we have the best selection so look no further. Our Singapore Nostalgia Snack Box has eight different variety of snacks from the 90s that will definitely make your night at any party or gathering. This snack box makes good gifts and good conversations. Did we also mention that all the snacks are Halal-Certified?
With such a big variety of nostalgic snacks from the 90s, we always change up the nostalgia snacks in the box so that and of our snackmates can come by to purchase the box again and again. Check out the gift box now and if you are lucky, you might also get an accompanying spotify playlist of songs from local musicians and artists! If you are looking for nostalgia snacks for an amazing gift or for an event, you contact our snack conceirge askus@tastysnack.asia for more details.