The day I thought a little long about foreign mayonnaise

Lately, one place I've personally come to love is the Korean supermarket E-mart. The eye-catching character has been dressed up in an ao dai for Tet, hasn't it? How cute.

Even while in Vietnam, you can find a decent selection of not just Korean groceries, but also Western products. Liquor, cheese, dairy products. That little "Oh, I want to try this!" moment—you'll find it here. A recent hit is mayonnaise.

This shelf is the corner for mayonnaise, ketchup, and kimchi sauce. People say to me, "If it's mayonnaise, they have Japanese ones, don't they?" And indeed, in Vietnam too, there is mayonnaise from famous Japanese makers, and you can easily get it even at local convenience stores and supermarkets.

But honestly, it just doesn't suit my taste. For me, someone who has loved mayonnaise since childhood, the slightly sweet flavor tuned to the Vietnamese palate just never quite feels right. "This isn't it~," I think, and my heart sinks. So I even tried Western mayonnaise. It's creamy and delicious, but this time it lacks tartness. I try all sorts of tricks—squeezing in some lime, adding pepper or mustard. That's not bad in its own way, but it's still something different from the mayonnaise I'm used to. A little on potato salad. A squiggle onto a slice of sandwich bread. That effortless ease just isn't there. Since there's no other choice, whenever I make a temporary trip back to Japan I buy several bottles, and when friends come to visit, I ask them to bring my go-to mayonnaise. Squeeze out a little dab, and take a bite. "This, this, this tartness.

Hehehe. The zodiac-series bottled mayo from 10 years ago. Around this time it had shrunk down to a smaller size. Sadly, here in Vietnam I still haven't been able to come across this flavor…… I'm completely a mayonnaise lost soul. And yet, today there was a bright sign of hope, because what I found on the Korean-products shelf at the Korean supermarket was a bottle proclaiming itself "the best-selling mayonnaise in Korea.

This is a must-buy. First, a trial. Let me get the small size and see how it goes. With a little flutter of excitement in my chest, I open it up the moment I get home. The stiffness of the laminate, the yellow cap. A design that's subtly different from Japanese mayonnaise. And it's so pale and white. So this is what the Vietnamese standard is like, I think, as I carefully examine the feel and texture in my hands. I squeeze out a little dab and give it a lick. …Huh? It's not very sweet. It has a proper tartness. The richness of the egg is on the light side, but it's not bad… I think. Huh, huh, huh? This might be delicious. This might be just my taste. No, maybe my brain is just glitching over something new. Let me calm down and give it one more lick. …Yeah. I do like it after all. This might just be a good one. 【🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City Price Info, January 2026】 Korean mayonnaise, 130g — 20,000 VND. About 120 yen.

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