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Japanese snack food This is a list of Japanese and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks. Types ''Anko'', or sweet bean paste '' Anko'' is a kind of sweet bean paste. Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan.　School ...

produced by

Calbee is a major Japanese snack food maker. It was founded on 30 April 1949, and its headquarters are located in the Marunouchi Trust Tower Main in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It launched operations at a new plant in the United States for making its ...

of Japan in

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. The version produced by Calbee America is called Shrimp Flavored Chips. The primary ingredients of Kappa Ebisen are wheat flour, vegetable oil, starch, shrimp, sugar, salt, baking powder, amino acid and sweetening.

History

Kappa Ebisen was first produced and sold by

in 1964 and has gained wide popularity among Japanese consumers as a snack food.
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or as a bar snack. Calbee began exporting Kappa Ebisen to

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and

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in 1966. It is now sold internationally, with different flavors of Kappa Ebisen such as curry or spicy available. A similar product called Saewoo Kkang (새우깡) in South Korea has been produced by Nongshim since 1971.

References

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