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Ho Fun Soup - Abalone & Chicken Flavor, a classic flavor of southern coastal Chinese cuisines. It has a refined onion chicken flavor with a seafare taste from the Wakame seaweed and abalone extract flavor with a mild sweet note.

Abalone extract flavor does not have that fresh shellfish taste, but it’s used as a flavor enhancer to add an almost meaty quality with a slightly carmelized sweet note to dishes like the classic oyster sauce used in Chinese cooking. It reduces the gaminess of chicken flavor while adding a rich flavor note.

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.

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Beef Flavor (Mi Thit Bo Tom Cay) Instant Noodle. The noodles are the same type used in the familiar instant cup noodles and so it cooks in the same way, just add hot water and cover. The soup is quite dark likes a sauce and well seasoned with a spicy vegetable beef flavor that not too bad. It’s a little faty though, but so is real ramen.

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What drawn me to try this was the nonfried “Instant Sweet Potato Noodle,” as I never had this before. It came in a good looking paper takeout-type bowl so it can’t be too much of a surprise, right? Wow, was I! If you want to have fun with your friends, give them this.

First, the sweet potato noodles were translucent brown and very gelatinous, but I actually enjoyed eating it. The soup was very spicy hot with lot of toasted bean and crushed Sichuan peppercorns sediments and is almost muddy dark. Good thing I had experience or else I would have thrown it out! It reminded me of a very thick bean stock soup my mother cooked sometime, she says it’s very “nutritious” which translated to “it’s not your favorite.”

I don’t know how to rate this one, so I just gave it two stars to discourage other from trying it… better yet, don’t even try this one unless you’re into budget “nutritious” meal.

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Ramen noodles made with tomato to promote the health benefit of lycopene, a substance found particualarly in tomato and to boost, the ramen is air-dried too. There are separate noodles and flavor packets to make 4 individual servings, though the noodles are not individually wrapped.

The noodles have a good chewy bite and the rich soup was spicy hot with a good note of tomato, along with other vegetables. In the soup is an ingredient commonly called Jew’s Ear, which is a popular tree jelly fungi that has a crunchy jelly-like texture almost like seaweed, but it’s shredded so finely that I wouldn’t have noticed it if it wasn’t listed.

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It’s a Dr Noodle Beef Tomato Ramen, Wu Mu brand. Just what the doctor ordered, I guessed. It’s banking on the health benefit of lycopene, a substance found particualarly in tomato and to boost, the ramen is air-dried too. There are separate noodles and flavor packets to make 4 individual servings, though the noodles are not individually wrapped.

So, does it measures up? Despite the photo of the cooked noodles being colored, the noodles were practically white on cooking and they didn’t have much color before either. That aside the noodles weren’t too bad and had a good chewy bite to it. The soup was a hot spicy tomato beef flavor that’s pretty decent, though the tomato flavor was light. An interesting note is the crunchy pickle vegetables which I liked and is the first time I had them in instant ramen. While the top of the soup looked oily, as a whole there’s only 9% DV from fat.

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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.

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The Hong Kong style noodle in this entree is a very thin air dried egg noodle that is a stable to the region, including what was formerly known as Canton. It is somewhat crunchier than other types of noodle. The early chinese arrivals to America were mostly from the region, which is why this noodle is often associated with Wonton soup.

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The Hong Kong style noodles are very thin air dried wheat noodles that have a firmer texture. The fineness of this noodle brings out the character of the light shrimp wonton soup taste. The package contains two separated noodle portions and seasoning packets.

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The Hong Kong style noodles in this entree are very thin air dried egg noodles that have a somewhat crunchier texture and work well with this lobster flavored soup sauce. The fineness of this noodle lets out the character of the sauce . While the taste is good, it is not much of a lobster flavor.

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