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Instant Flat Noodles

February 2nd, 2006

2.5 Stars

Oriental Style Instant Flat Noodles (Clear Soup). The rice noodles are quite wide (~ 1/2 inch) by instant noodles standard. The clear soup was very garlicy and its aroma was strong. A light serving of only 180 calories with only 25 calories from fat. Not too bad tasting either.

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Instant Chand Noodles - Chicken Flavor

January 13th, 2006

2 1/2 Stars

Instant Chand Noodles (pho) is a clear broth with small flat rice noodles. Its delicate chicken (ga) taste come from a light chicken flavor seasoning oil.

The taste is light for chicken flavor broth, with a delicate note of herbal spices. I like to let the rice noodles expand longer than 3 minutes so it fills in the broth, but it’s get a little flimsy though.

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Hot & Spicy Flavor

January 4th, 2006

3 Stars

MAMA Hot & Spicy Flavor Instant Noodle

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Even with an updated look in a foil type package, it seems to lack a bit of originality - another Hot & Spicy. It’s so plain, but it’s virtually all English with good labeling!

The wheat-tapioca based noodles are thicker than regular ramen and have a chewiness much like korean instant noodles. Its medium spicy broth is slightly thickened with miso, looked a bit like tomato juice. Kind of skimpy on the vegetable flakes (the dark specks in the picture below are Shiitake mushroom), but you get what you pay for. The taste is very well seasoned, so be conservative about drinking the soup.

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Tom Yum/Mi Tom - Shrimp Flavor

December 4th, 2005

3 1/2 Stars

MAMA Tom Yum Mi Tom

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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.

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Quick’n Tasty Instant Seafood Fried Rice

December 4th, 2005

3 1/2 Stars

MAMA Instant Fried Rice Seafood

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!

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Pad Thai Noodles

November 9th, 2005

3 1/2 Stars

Pad Thai Noodles

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A non-soup rice noodle dish that is sweet-tart, spicy flavored in stir fry Thai cuisine style. This is a light tasty delight!

Rice noodles are very quick to cook, basically it just need to be soften with hot water. The noodles are thin ribbons of cooked air-dried noodles. The silky soft rice noodles is flavored in a spicy sweet-tart sauce with a hint of coconut & peanut flavors that are classic ingredients in Thai cuisine.

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Kimchi (Hot & Spicy)

August 9th, 2005

3 Stars

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This is one fiery hot soup made in Thailand with decent ingredients. Kimchi is a popular Korean pickled hot & spicy cabbage relish. The Korean style noodle is thicker and round cut, similar to Udon but a little firmer.

As the ingredients cooked, a hearty aroma of vegetable chili fills the kitchen. Nothing tamed here, the hot chili assaulted your mouth right out and overwhelmed some of the flavors in the soup as I ate on. The thicker noodle with its good chewy texture easily counter balanced the fiery soup sauce. After eating most of noodle, I drained away most of the watery soup sauce to finish the tasty morsels of shitake mushroom and other vegetable pieces at the bottom.

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