Trader Joe's Honey Walnut Shrimp

Trader Joe’s Honey Walnut Shrimp Reviews

(14 customer reviews)

Battered shrimp with candied walnuts.

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14 reviews for Trader Joe’s Honey Walnut Shrimp Reviews

  1. Buddy –

    The shrimp are good quality, but the dish is flavorless. No honey flavor, walnuts far and few between, and very salty. I love salt, but when that’s all you taste, not good. A rare dud from Trader Joe’s.

  2. Carol Ann –

    I must have gotten a bad batch. The sauce tasted like a sour gym sock. Not at all what I’m used to from restaurants and zero honey flavor. Ick!

  3. B. Ricks –

    Shrimp were large and nice, but the dish as a whole was a major DUD. Sauce was gloppy and sickening. Walnuts had shell in the package. No wonder it was on sale… I still love TJ’s though.

  4. Shelly –

    Like others have said, the shrimp quality is pretty good, but that sauce is disgusting & tastes absolutely nothing like honey walnut. The sauce tastes like pineapple, but in a bad way. I am a big fan of honey walnut shrimp in generaly, and I will never buy this version again. YUK

  5. Patricia –

    Again – the battered, crispy shrimp actually had a good flavor but the sauce wasn’t good. It was sort of like mayonnaise with a little orange juice in it. It would’ve been SO much better with TJ’s Kung Pao Chicken sauce. THAT is really yummy. We were sort of expecting the Honey Walnut Shrimp to be like the Kung Pao Chicken – add rice and you’ve got a meal. It just wasn’t good. But we’ll keep trying their other main dishes in hopes of finding another great one like the Kung Pao Chicken.

  6. Mariella –

    I second or 3rd with everyone else saying that the shrimp are of good quality. The sauce is nasty af though. It’s like tossing it in condensed milk, and that it. Ohhhh the sauce is gross, thick and gloppy. I read reviews before, so thank goodness I only used a rltad bit of the sauce, I didn’t want to ruin the whole bag of good shrimp. I’ll use my.own sauce for the rest of the bag.

  7. Daryl –

    Worst tasting TJ product by far. Did anyone taste this before packaging and distributing it? “Sour pineapple glop” sauce is a perfect description.

  8. Linda –

    Not good-agree with all the other reviews

  9. Frank T. Dancuart –

    Horrible! I shoul d have read these reviews beforehand.

  10. Lily F –

    This is one of my favorite dishes growing up so when I saw this at Trader Joe’s I was skeptical but still willing to give it a try. I prepared the shrimp in the air fryer and they came out delightfully crisp. I then sautéed the shrimp in the sauce and topped with the candied walnuts. I kid you not, the very first shrimp I tried, I did that slow chew, thinking what did I buy? I then tried a 2nd shrimp. It came to me, the dish tastes like straight rancid parmesan cheese sauce. I could not eat any more, this dish brought no joy.

  11. Richard –

    Put some cream on this, and you’d have a perfect shrimp-based dessert. Honestly TJ’s, cut it out with the sugar in your prepared foods. It’s too much.

  12. Beverly Seawell –

    i loved it!!! mine was finger licking good and will purchase again!!

  13. Elizabeth –

    Shrimp was excellent
    But the sauce omg yuck I should have tasted it first I eat everything from trader joe’s but this hit different I’ll buy it again just for the shrimp ☺️

  14. Maureen Driscoll –

    I’m generally a huge TJ Fan, but I’m seriously worried the sauce I just tasted has gone bad. It smells and tastes like vomit. I am really worried I have food poisoning. After tasting and discarding the sauce, I checked to see if there was bleu cheese in it — it was that type of taste — but can’t find any. These reviews make me feel a bit better than it’s bad sauce and not dangerous.

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