Yet another
weird Asian snack food. These are
Japanese in origin; they're ordinary
green peas which have been coated in a
batter containing
potent quantities of
wasabi (or a
cheap Western substitute such as
mustard), then
cooked. They are quite tasty, and quite
hot as well.
The container of wasabi green peas (or rather, as noted above, actually mustard green peas) I recently purchased at Stop & Shop contains a good number of yellow peas as well. I suppose this means the manufacturer gets supplies from the Gregor Mendel Pea Laboratory.