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New Korean Snacks, September 2026: Han River Ramyeon, Poca Chip Hwang Cheese, Earl Grey Cake and a Twosome Collab

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AI-generated bowl of ramyeon with egg on a kitchen table, thin white steam doodles and the handwritten words a little noodle break.

AT A GLANCE

Han River Ramyeon
Ottogi; announced Sept 9, nationwide convenience-store distribution from that date
Poca Chip Hwang Cheese
Orion; announced Sept 3; cheese cream plus cheese-flavored powder coating
Oh Yes Bakehouse Earl Grey & Chocolat
Haitai; chocolate snack cake with Earl Grey cream (per Sept 7 report)
Twosome cake
Kwangjuyo x Hwayo x Twosome Place cake, listed on Twosome's ordering site
Not confirmed
Prices and store stock for all four

September 2026 brought several snack and dessert releases in Korea, including Ottogi’s Han River Ramyeon, Orion’s Poca Chip Hwang Cheese, a Haitai Earl Grey chocolate cake and a Twosome Place collaboration cake. This list covers what could be confirmed from company announcements and reports. Checked on 2026-10-12.

The hero image is AI-generated and does not show the actual Ottogi product, its serving size or toppings.

Han River Ramyeon (Ottogi)

The Han River runs through Seoul. At its riverside parks, cooking instant noodles in a self-service machine is part of the outing. Ottogi announced its packaged Han River Ramyeon on September 9, 2026, with nationwide convenience-store distribution from that date. The company describes noodles made for this cooking style, an egg block and Cheongyang chili, a hot Korean chili pepper (Ottogi’s launch announcement). A national launch does not mean every shop has stock.

Poca Chip Hwang Cheese Flavor (Orion)

Orion’s Poca Chip Hwang Cheese Flavor (포카칩 황치즈맛, yellow-cheese-flavored potato chips) was announced on September 3. Orion describes a double coating of cheese cream and cheese-flavored powder. It does not describe the flavor as “aged cheddar” (Orion’s announcement).

Oh Yes Bakehouse Earl Grey & Chocolat (Haitai)

According to reporting on Haitai’s autumn range, Oh Yes Bakehouse Earl Grey & Chocolat combines a chocolate snack cake with Earl Grey cream. Earl Grey is black tea scented with bergamot, a citrus fruit (September 7 report).

Kwangjuyo x Hwayo x Twosome cake

Twosome Place, a Korean cafe chain, lists a Kwangjuyo x Hwayo x TWOSOME cake among its new products on its official ordering site. Kwangjuyo makes ceramics, and Hwayo makes distilled soju, a Korean spirit. Check the store’s ordering page for ingredients, alcohol information, pickup dates and availability before choosing it as a gift (Twosome ordering site).

More from the announcements

  • Han River Ramyeon: Ottogi says it adjusted the noodles’ recovery and spread for cooking in a ramyeon cooker. The egg block is bigger and has more egg than before, and the flavor is pitched as a spicy, deep broth. The name is written in Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese so foreign visitors can recognize the concept.
  • Poca Chip Hwang Cheese: Poca Chip’s first “double cheese coating.” Yellow-cheese cream goes on first, then yellow-cheese powder on top. It follows three limited yellow-cheese editions from February that sold well, and Orion is adding yellow cheese to long-running products such as Moist Choco Chips and Mitzu.
  • Haitai Oh Yes: a four-layer structure gives it a cafe-dessert-cake texture.

Haitai’s four autumn cafe editions

According to the September 7 report, Haitai released three more products besides Oh Yes.

  • Matdongsan Chestnut Latte: savory peanut and sweet chestnut with a light coffee finish.
  • Sand Ace Cream Latte: biscuits filled with a latte cream that keeps its coffee flavor.
  • Jayu Sigan Royal Milk Tea: chocolate with a savory royal milk tea cream.

The packaging uses a warm beige background and a paper texture for an autumn cafe mood.

Newer releases

For an October launch, see Nongshim’s Neoguring, which joined Neoguri ramyun with onion-ring chips.

Good for / not for

Good for

  • Anyone who likes to check what is new before a convenience-store run
  • Visitors who want ideas for Korean snacks to try

Not for

  • Anyone who needs prices or guaranteed stock.

Sources

Checked on 2026-10-12. Manufacturer announcements confirm the ramyeon and chips, and Twosome’s site confirms the cake name. The Earl Grey cake description comes from reporting.