After my relative success with the butter cookies, I went back to the little convient store on ECNU's campus to buy some more. This time though I got Franzzi green tea and plum flavored cookies, two significantly more Chinese flavors than butter cookie. Despite the Italian sounding name, these cookies didn't seem to hide the fact that they aren’t imports. From some reading I did in my Globalization & Urbanization Class, many Chinese companies will use English names or English text in their marketing material to make themselves look more high class. I guess because these cookies aren’t imported, each box was about half the price of the Chinese owned imported cookies and about a fourth of the cost of the foreign owned imported cookies. Despite this, I actually liked these cookies more than the imported butter cookies, I guess Chinese producers know how to use green tea and plum flavors better than butter cookie flavor. I found the cookies didn't have a very strong flavor of ether green tea nor plum, while green tea flavoring is often subtle I was expecting a bit more form the plum. The most dominant taste in the cookies was just the taste of hard sugar cookies, not bad mind you but not special. The only strange thing was that the plum cookies had little chunks of what I can only imagine was dried plum in them, while this created a textural difference I don't know if it was the best decision. The other big thing I liked was that the cookies came in small, individually sealed, bags so they stay fresh. Overall, Franzzi cookies aren’t bad so I guess I can recommend them.
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Dad
12/2/2016 03:28:43 am
Nice review but I don't think I will be rushing over on the next plane to China to buy a box. I will stick to Chips Ahoy from Shoprite. Can you buy normal Western brands at the local stores, such as Keebler, Nabisco, etc?
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