Congratulations number 27, Sarah Lynn! You’ll be receiving an email from me soon.

Thanks for entering and sharing your favorites with me, everyone. I also want to say yes, yes, and yes to your favorites. Like a lot of you, I’m an equal-opportunity eater and there is honestly not a single thing someone mentioned that I don’t like, love, or want to try. I wish I could send every one of you a box of goodies.

I think marshmallows are an underrated snack. I mean, how often do you buy them unless you’re making something with the little pieces of confectionary goodness, like Rice Krispies Treats or s’mores? And even then, don’t you buy the plain white ones?

So I think the makers of these marshmallows have the right attitude and playfulness—Let’s enjoy the new marshmallow generation!!

Yes, let’s.

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Thank you for helping me reach a number of posts—100—that at times along the way I wasn’t sure would happen.

This giveaway is for a box filled with likely the following items, as well as other things I’ve featured and have yet to feature on this site.

Hi-Chew Fruit Chews.

Chocolate Pocky, Strawberry Pocky.

Pork Jerky.

Dried Mangoes.

Ramune Drink.

Ginger Candy.

Marukawa Bubble Gum.

Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce.

To enter the giveaway, please answer this question: What is your favorite food?

The giveway will run until 10 PM PST this Thursday. A winner will be randomly selected and announced sometime the next day, this Friday.

If I have to recommend one candy to get out of all the ones I’ve featured on this site, it would be this one. I adore it.

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Someone wrote me recently saying that she loves Ling Ling Dipping Sauce, yet it’s no longer being sold by the bottle. She asked if I or readers could recommend another similar dipping sauce?

I said fine, I know what it’s like to have a favorite item be discontinued (I’m still upset with you, Sephora!) so let me pick up a bag of dumplings and bottle of dumpling sauce, eat a dozen of the dumplings with the sauce, tell everyone what I thought of the two things, and ask for dumpling sauce recommendations.

This is what I came up with, a bag of Vegetable, Pork, and Leek Dumplings.

And a bottle of Taiwanese dumpling sauce.

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