Japanese festival food: 'furi furi' fries

Another potato based festival food for you today. As I wrote in the last post about Japanese festival food, the potato is the star vegetable of Japanese festival food. There are many different options of festival food with potatoes. 'Furi Furi' fries are probably the type I order most. Because usually they are the safest bet, because in my experience other potato festival food, such as tornado potato fries and long potato fries, can be hit and miss.

I don't know what the 'furi furi' means, I think its just onomatopoeia. Furi furi can mean swing or frilly, but there is no clear translation that I can find for furi furi when combined with potato. And it seems to be called furi furi fries even in English. Basically, the are flavored are spiced fries, and they are very similar to 'shakashaka' fries. The difference is with 'shaka shaka' potato fries you are given the sachet of flavor on the side.

You can usually choose different flavorings - for both 'furi furi' and 'shaka shaka' fries. When I'm playing it safe I usually just get salted or occasionally seaweed. They shake them up for you when you get 'furi furi' potato, but if you get 'shaka shaka' you shake them up yourself! In my experience there is usually at least one 'furi furi' potato fries food stall at most festivals, except small, local type festivals. Have you ever tried them?