Costco Arumi Korean Style Vegetable Pancakes Review

These vegetable pancakes that are imported from Korea are super flavorful and full of tasty vegetables. The edges are nice and crispy while the center is soft and chewy. With that said, is there anything to not love about these unique Arumi Korean Style Crispy Vegetable Pancakes from Costco?

If you like these vegetable pancakes you may also like the Minh Pork Egg Rolls, Summ! Crispy Vegetable Spring Rolls, Bibigo Beef Bulgogi Mandu, Bibigo Steamed Dumplings, Ling Ling Potstickers, Synear Soup Dumplings and the Made Fresh Foods BBQ Pork Buns from Costco.

Location in Store

These are located in the freezer section at Costco and the item number is 1793162.

Taste

These Korean vegetable pancakes are so good! Have you ever had a green onion cake? The flavor is similar to a green onion cake but the texture is different. They’re more like a flat, dense, vegetable-filled pancake.

They’re very similar to a potato pancake but with lots of vegetables. There are chunks of leeks, onions, king oyster mushroom, scallions and carrots in the vegetable pancakes. The pancakes are very flavorful and have garlic, pepper, salt and soy sauce which enhances all the deliciousness.

The vegetable pancakes once cooked are golden crisp on the outside, soft on the inside and nice and chewy. You can eat them alone or serve them with hot sauce or even plum sauce for those sweet lovers.

Cost

There are 10 100-gram vegetable pancakes in the bag and I paid $13.59 Canadian for the bag. Back in 2020 there were 12 100-gram vegetable pancakes in the bag and the price was $12.99 Canadian. So you’re paying more and getting less.

Convenience

I recommend heating the pancakes in a non-stick pan with some oil which is the method that’s suggested most on the bag. You can also cook them in the oven or air fryer! I haven’t tried the air fryer method but I have tried the oven method along with the frying pan method and both worked well.

The pancakes need to be kept frozen, the best before date is over a year from the date I purchased them and the bag is resealable which is always a bonus. I feel like these need a dipping sauce with them, like sriracha, a sweet chili sauce or plum sauce.

Nutrition

Calories

One pancake (which is actually quite big) contains 200 calories, eight grams of fat, 28 grams of carbohydrates, two grams of fibre, two grams of sugar, four grams of protein and 360 milligrams of sodium.

Ingredients

The ingredients list is pretty straightforward and not full of surprise ingredients like chemicals and additives so I appreciate that! Although they have loads of vegetables these aren’t necessarily healthy. They contain wheat, egg and soybean. They may contain fish, milk, mustard, peanut, crustaceans, molluscs, sesame, tree nuts and sulphites.

Scoring

Taste: 8.5/10

Cost: 7/10

Convenience: 8/10

Nutrition: 4/10

Overall

Give it a try!

These are delicious as an appetizer or side. We served them as an appetizer at our Mother’s Day dinner and all of our family really enjoyed them.

Have you tried the Arumi Vegetable Pancakes? What did you think of them?

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