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The Shirakiku namesake is a quality label and is a bit more expensive. The products are first and foremost good foods and never outflavored, like a girl in strong perfume.

“Curry”, an Indian word for sauce, contains distinct blends of spices to create a genuine flavor. The sauce is spicy and aromatic but not hot. It achieves its depth of hotness when hot peppers are added to the dish, so the curry can be spicy and mild at the same time.

As prepared, the curry soup sauce had a mild to medium spicy vegetable curry flavor and fine aroma. I let it soaks in the hot curry sauce a few minutes for tastier noodles. The large flat Udon noodles taste smooth and soft. This one leaves its mark simply for its honest-to-goodness fare.

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Miso is a staple in Japan with more than 1,000 brands available, where it’s used to flavor soups, dipping sauces, meats, and dressings. The miso used in this entree has a mild sweet rich smooth nutty flavor.

This is a denser, starchier noodle that Asians enjoy. The soup sauce has a nuttier taste and aroma than the Tokusen Cup Shoyu Ramen. The nutty toasted sesame seeds, sweet kernels of corn and other vegetable really made a different to the perception that you are not just eating noodles.

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The picture actually look like what you get. Shoyu is soy sauce in Japanese and is one of the four basic kinds of ramen. Least you think that this is just a humble flavor then you have guessed wrong. There are more subtle ways to make this basic flavor than you can image.

On opening the lid, the spartan look of the content sets me back a bit. I guess that looks can be deceiving. When prepared, it tasted seductively good as I slurped the soup sauce with the noodle. The flavor was vibrant with a nutty taste of toasted sesame and tangy zing of anchovy, spices and ginger. It is a light sauce, so you need a sip of soup with each bite of noodle. It is a starchier noodle that most Asian likes. The shoyu flavor did not overpower other ingredients and you can taste the chewy kernel of sweet corn, succulent pieces of onion, etc.

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