{"id":1452,"date":"2011-01-08T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T05:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:30:10","slug":"well-pac-saki-ika-prepared-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Well-Pac Saki Ika (prepared squid)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Well-PacSakiIka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Well-PacSakiIka.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Well-PacSakiIka\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Well-PacSakiIka.jpg 400w, https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Well-PacSakiIka-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not entirely sure that &#8220;saki ika&#8221; is Chinese for prepared squid but I&#8217;m going to guess that it might be.  It could also be how people in Taiwan say &#8220;spicy squid jerky&#8221; or &#8220;not as sweet as <a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=909\">Jane Jane rolled squid<\/a> but more jerky in texture than <a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=786\">Mr. Squid<\/a>&#8220;.  Heck, for all I know &#8220;saki ika&#8221; translates to &#8220;GET YOUR CAT HEAD OUT OF MY SQUID!&#8221; because I am finding myself saying that quite a lot as I review these.  The cats give Well-Pac&#8217;s Saki Ika two paws full of claws up for prepared squid.  Yowch.<\/p>\n<p>Well-Pac&#8217;s prepared squid does smell slightly fish foody but it also smells dried squiddy in equal proportions.  It&#8217;s not the best smell but I&#8217;ve smelled worse squid flavored things in my time reviewing Asian snacks.  It does smell strong enough to pique a cat&#8217;s curiosity though and I&#8217;d imagine the canine nose would be equally intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>Well-Pac is closer in experience to the Jane Jane rolled squid snack.  It&#8217;s a little chewy in a squid jerky sort of way and it also has an initial sweety flavor to it.  However, the sweet fades nicely into a rollicking red pepper flavor which lingers pleasantly after the squid is gone.   Underneath is a nice solid squid flavor which isn&#8217;t strong enough to overpower the sweet or spicy but present enough to remind one that they are indeed eating squid jerky.  <\/p>\n<p>I think what makes Well-Pac a slightly better snack than Jane Jane&#8217;s rolled squid is that Well-Pac comes as shredded squid.  It&#8217;s really easy to grab up a small handful of squid jerky without having to wrestle it from the package.  And if you want, you can then easily grab another.  And another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/PicnicSquid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/PicnicSquid.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PicnicSquid\" width=\"400\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/PicnicSquid.jpg 400w, https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/PicnicSquid-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou can even take saki ika on picnics.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?page_id=2\">Rating<\/a> of <b>3.5 Wasabi Peas<\/b> out of a possible 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35-peas","category-savory","category-zchina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}