Lemon grill chicken flavor oriental style instant noodle is a sour, aromatic noodle soup with a rich flavorful taste. The textured wheat gluten pieces tasted uncannily like chicken.
It seems that chicken flavored broths are always extra heavy on salt (sodium) as if the saltiness must be a part of its flavor substitute. Read the rest of this page »
Pocky popular brand light crunchy biscuit stick snack with a rich strawberry flavor, sweet and mildly fruity cream icing made with real strawberry. It’ll be gone before you know it! Read the rest of this page »
Wonton soup with Ho Fun noodles is a stable served at many Chinese eatouts. Ho Fun is a velvety soft thick broad rice noodle and is used in many stir fried dishes too.
The wonton soup is seafood flavor with tiny shrimps, cabbage and chive toppings. It has a delicious rich shrimp taste, well seasoned with a note of pepper. The noodles were “fun” to eat.
While the soup looked rich and oily on top, because of the fat-free rice noodles, the actual amount of fat in the soup is relatively low at 3g or 5% daily value. The “vermicelles†Ho Fun noodles are smaller than the ones served in restaurant.
Top Ramen brand, also known as Oodles of Noodles, was the first instant noodle introduced to the U.S. market and shortly thereafter have been produced in Garden, California.
Picante beef flavor is a spicy noodle soup with a slight oily aftertaste. The beef flavor isn’t much of a taste, however the overall spiciness help make it an acceptable taste. Read the rest of this page »
A “wafu” cuisine is a Japanese-style fusion of food influences from aboard, particularly Western. It’s also a part of the Japanese fast foods and there is nothing English about it as this package is all Japanese. Mushroom is called “kinoko” in Japanese and yakisoba means stir fried style noodles.
As you can see from the photo below, there are some unfamiliar little shimeiji mushrooms with mostly stem. They kind of tasted like oyster mushrooms. The sauce is a light soy based mushroom flavor sauce with mild spices. There are shreds of nori seaweed on top. The overall taste is delicate and earthy with an oily aftertaste. If you don’t like mushrooms, this one will not suit you.
Pho Ga chicken flavor Vietnamese style instant rice noodle is very tasty. There’s lot of green onion bits on top, looking very appetizing with a hearty veggie chicken soup aroma and a note of fragrant anise.
The wide velvety soft rice noodle is fat-free and it’s all gluten-free. The chicken flavor is artificial, so I guess it’s vegetarian too. It has only 186 calories and is very well seasoned, so salt level is high. That’s fine, just avoid the soup and enjoy the delicious noodles! Read the rest of this page »
Simply Asia is a private label brand from Thai Kitchen. Removing the fancy jacket reveals just a regular bowl type instant noodle.
Everything were tailored to the natural health food fad. It has rice noodles to reduce the fat. Reduced portion size to lower calories and sodium listed. Use ingredients which are natural source of MSG, i.e., hydrolyzed vegetable protein, whey, yeast extract and natural flavor. With all the fancy marketing, it has a comparatively high price, $1.99, to Asian brands.
How the product taste? It’s ok. The rice noodles were firm and thin and the soup was flavorful. A nice peppery sweet vegetable broth with a note of garlic and sesame oil. Read the rest of this page »
Lipton is tapping into the Asian cuisine with this “Asian Sides” product line. The flavor is good, but the taste is too weak to pass for a real Thai cuisine. It has a sweet, weak soy taste with a note of cilantro, sesame seeds and barely a hint of lemon grass. The noodles tasted more like a macaroni product, not “lo mein” as labeled.
The package pictured a vey appetizing non-soup serving. Using a standard 8 oz/cup measure, the serving came out quite soupy. I served it in a regular single serving bowl, so don’t see how there are two servings per container here. As a single serving, it has about the same calories and sodium as typical ramen with the soup. Not very “instant” as it took more than 10 minutes to do. Read the rest of this page »
A gourmet instant spicy Kimchi flavor noodle soup with excellent thin oriental style noodle made from rice and wheat flours. The noodles have the bests of both types, quick cooking & fat-free as rice noodles and more flavor absorbent like wheat noodles.
It looks and smells very appetizing and has a rich full-flavor Kimchi taste with a note of garlic. The dried flakes comes in a lightweight block, which are the best. There are more Kimchi cabbage pieces here than most other brands of Kimchi instant noodle. The scallion pieces are more tender too. Read the rest of this page »
A package version of its twin without the extra cost of a bowl, its the cheaper way to go if you love it - same excellent taste.
The fresh-packed noodle sealed in a clear pouch is as good as the Udon you’ll find at any Asian grocery. As prepared, the noodle soup looked really good with slices of fish cakes, tiny brown wheat vegetable dumpling, and green vegetable in a rich reddish brown broth. The soup sauce had a delicious rich sweet spicy soy sauce flavor.
It tasted like what you mght get at a resturant, it’s that good. About the only thing holding it back from a five star rating is the amount of solid ingredients other than the noodles. Read the rest of this page »
A spicy hot & sour noodle soup flavored with a good Tom Yum shrimp paste containing aromatic lemon grass & bergamot mint leaf, and sharp ginger-like galingale. This Tom Yum recipe has a nice spectrum of tastes and aroma. The red chili oil droplets on top of the soup are quite hot.
Highly recommend adding shrimps and vegetables to this very bold tasting broth. Read the rest of this page »
Quick’n Tasty Instant Fried Rice w/Seafood is a convenient meal set w/spoon for microwave cooking. It’s low fat, gluten free and preservative free.
It listed Jasmine rice, shrimp, surimi (imitation crab made with fish), squid and carrot in the recipe. The seafood taste is good and well seasoned, but the rice needed a bit more oil as it’s on the dry side and adding a dash of extra olive oil works great! Read the rest of this page »
An excellent quality microwave type fresh-sealed noodles that’s as good as fresh Udon. Prepared, the noodle soup looked very appetizing with lot of varied good solid ingredients on top.
The soup had a delicious rich spicy seafood and sweet-salty gourmet soy sauce taste. There are small traditional fried shrimps with edible shell that looked better than it taste, not very meaty. Read the rest of this page »
A pojangmacha is a wheeled Korean stall/cart serving food and drink set up on the city’s streets. The package has the Korean spelling of “U-Dong” for the Japanese Udon style thick soft noodles.
The noodle soup has a spicy seafare taste that’s a blend of anchovy with two kinds of seaweed and pepper powder. There are some roasted popped wheat grits, sesame seeds and green onion which add textures and highlights for a tasty, well balanced serving. Read the rest of this page »