XXXIX. NONGSHIM HooRooRooK Noodle Soup

Hello!
Long time no see! It's the years end and I would have felt kinda bad, if I havent posted at least on the last day. xD
So here is one of my rare, but full of quality review with pretty, high quality pictures on this special noodle soup in this pretty packaging! Enjoy! :D

 It's the NONGSHIM HooRooRooK Noodle Soup from Korea! What an awesome name, for an awesome noodle soup in such an awesome designed package! *A*

It was love, the moment I set eyes on these in the store! ♥

The noodles are light and thin. I believe they are somen noodles.

With it comes three super cute and pretty little sachets. One with soup paste, soup base and seasoning flakes. ^^

Unfortunately the text was in korean, which I can't read, but look at those cute pictures (and that cute nail of mine! xD)

I'm sure, the text is cute too... err...

You have to cook it in boiling water for about 5 minutes for the noodles to be soft. So it's unfortunately not for the lazy ones...

Add the pink soup base and vegetables from the white satchet and make it boil! :D

When putting in the vegetable it smells of seaweed. *____*

Contains bits of cucmber, chilli, bambus, leek and more...

When cooked, it should look like this. (I'm drooling like stupid, while writing this right now at midnight. -.-'')

After you put it in the bowl, you add the soup paste, from the small blue satchet.

The soup sauce, is like a mix of soy sauce and sesame oil, and has such an awesome smell! *A*

It has perfect chewynessa and is sooooooooo delicous, words can't describe it!!! *________*

It's like real korean noodle soup, if you have been to korea and have eaten one!

Slight spicyness and a little sesame smell makes it even more delicous and authentic.

This noodle soup definately has potential to look like the picture. Awesome! :D

Seriously, this is more than your simple three-minute-waiting-and-mindless-chugging-in-your-stomach-noodle-soup. THIS IS SO MUCH MORE! A soup, so rich in flavours and really close to original korean-restaurant-soup, you will love it! ♥

A+++ with ☆☆☆☆☆

XXXVIII. NONG SHIM Hot & Spicy AnSungTangMyun Ramyun

Brand: NONG SHIM
Name: Hot & Spicy AnSungTangMyun Ramyun
Price: 1,20 €

It is said that eating hot food is supposed to warm you up from the inside, so perfect for winter, right?

So I tested this one especially on its hotness and the amount of nose water that it produces. Read futher for the result, biotches! Don't only look at the pictures! (Ò__Ó)

This was a 'FUUUUUCK-my-bowl-is-too-small'-moment, which often occurs when eating Korean instant noodles, haha, those bloody huge big-ass noodle bricks -.-"

So I broke the brick in four extremely symmetrical pieces, (hahaha what a badass I am), and poured the red powder above it. The flavouring didn't smell hot, to be honest, it smelled like bolognese-sauce. That made me very curious about the broth.

It turned out that it was pretty hot, but eatable. Well at least for me. It was painful in a good way, I even needed a glass of water to calm down the burning, which I don't often do, only with my momah's thai green curry actually. 

The thing is: The slowlier you drink the soup, the more it will burn. So don't just take a mouthful to swallow, because that made me cough like an idiot. You gotta down the soup all the way, that's what I did, and it was strangely less hot to eat these ramen like that. The noodles are not that spicy, so if you really can't drink the broth no more because you're a weak-ass mollycoddle, eat the noodles, but I'm afraid they will also be too hot for you, wimp.

Beside the hotness, there is only saltyness, and the noodles are, like almost all Korean instant noodles, just okay, not too salty, but rather boring. But the hotness thing is really worth trying this one out.

Rating: A 

XXXVII. NONG SHIM Kimchi Ramyun

Brand: NONG SHIM
Name: Kimchi Ramyun
Price: 1,20 €

Hi, dear readers, if you actually exist, it's been a while since this blog was updated, my apologies for that, because the bloggers are two lazy asses aka. students.

Anyways, we get to eat a lot of ramen like this, us being poor ass students who never have enough time to cook or go shopping for fresh and healthy food, or even get their asses up to go to lectures at university, HIGH FIVE SIS!!!

This big pack of Korean ramen was pretty appealing to me, because I FUCKING LOVE Korean food, and  Kimchi. Hell yeah. Ok, picspam now.

I like the noodles, they're round... x3 The dried stuff in the clear sachet looks pretty unidentifiable, though...

et voilá, doesn't this look amazing? Kimchi frezzles everywhere, carotte slices, leek, some other brown crap ehh stuff, and a nicely red-coloured broth, what you, unfortunately, can't see on the pictures.

The noodles are okay, a little bit weird in my opinion, because they are kinda mushy on the outside and hard inside as well, but maybe you have to decide for yourself, I found them eatable actually. The taste of the soup was pretty disappointing actually: It was just salty, not hot, not even spicey. But what disappointed me the most was the lack of Kimchi-flavour. I fucking bought Kimchi-Ramen, where is my Kimchi-flavour? The sour and hot taste of that, at least, but no, this broth was just as drowsy as Lana del Rey's voice. These dried vegetable pieces left me utterly dissatisfied, I have to say.

Rating: B-

XXXVI. Wai Wai Instant noodles - vegetarian

Brand: Wai Wai
Name: Instant noodles - vegetarian
Price: 0,39 €

Fuck the EXP-date, I ate it half a year later without dying

We already reviewed Wai Wai's normal 'oriental style' Ramen here, which was pretty shitty, but read the review for yourself. This time, it's the vegetarian version, and I was at first not really sure if this ramen would  be also an insult to human taste buds. The package is already shitty, because the colours don't even suggest that the ramen is vegetarian/with vegetable flavour, while all the other brands have green packages. Yum Yum has, Indo Mie has, Vina AceCOCK has, just to mention a few. So don't mistake this vegetarian one with the NORMAL Wai Wai, because you will regret having bought the wrong sort that sucks.

The chili-sachet looks so cute, don't you think so, too? :3

I added some left-over fried vegetable/food/wintermelon/tofu/peanut-stuff which improved the taste of this soup so fucking much. But beside that, the soup is not even that bad. It's actually quite good, I have to admit. The noodles were nice, pretty perfect in their consistence, and the broth is nicely flavoured, too. Even after putting in the fried extra stuff that YOU DON'T HAVE (HAR HAR HAR!), the broth wasn't too salty or whatever, it still tasted amazing.

Rating: A

XXV. Yum Yum Curry Flavour

Brand: Yum Yum 

Name: Curry Flavour

Price: 0,35 €

Let me introduce you to one of my all-time favourite instant noodle soup: The Yum Yum Curry Flavoured Ramen. It's pure dope. It's addicting. It's the shit. I highly recommend it. It's not even that pricey, actually this is one of the cheapest Ramen in the market so every poor ass can afford this awesome SHIAT! Yaaaaay! 

Though it's cheap, and although it only contains one bag of flavouring, it's still amazing, and lemme warn you: It's pretty hot. Ok, only if you're a pussy, otherwise your nose will only get a little bit runny while/after eating. You can already smell that curry-ish smell from the powder. Which is yellow, and which smells amazing btw. Did I already mention that I love curry? :D

What the fuck, chunky things appear from nowhere in the soup!?!?!?! (°_____°) 

Lol OK, I added these from the left-over curry I had in my fridge, which my momah <3 made for me. It contained potatoes, deep-fried tofu and champignons. Just to make you jealous :P Such a fucking good curry AHAHAHHA. Look at the picture, the texture of the creamy curry, containing coconut milk and more awesome stuff, additionally created a broth more viscid and delicious and so much better than your lousy boiled water will ever get, MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

The noodles are very good, too, which apply to (fairly (?)) all Yum Yums out there. Perfectly salted, and very nice to chew, which means not too mushy, and not too hard, too. 

The broth is (imo) nicely spicy and eatable, and the hotness is just perfect, balancing deliciousness with pain. Ok, only the real pussys among you readers will feel pain. The others, and I am sure of that, will scream: 'Hell yeah, what a fucking awesome soup!!!' :D

Rating: Just look at that picture above. How can this not get an A+? 

XXIV. Vewong A-One Instant Nudelsuppe Vegetarisch

Brand: Vewong
Name: A-One Instant Nudelsuppe Vegetarisch
Price: ~0,50 €

Even if I wrote before that I won't post about boring A-One-Ramen anymore, I still have to mention this one: The vegetarian A-One Instant Ramen. Why? Read further and I'll tell you.

 

If the noodles weren't so cheap (talkin 'bout 35 ct cheap Yum Yums), in this case 50 cents, you can expect more than one crappy bag of flavouring. I never really thought about this, but maybe it tastes better the more flavour-containing sachets you get with your package. Hmmm...

Whatever.

Still looks boring as crap, though. No green stuff, either. The only good thing, before eating this, is the smell of the soup: pretty aromatic, but not that kind of hot or penetrant, but rather decent and aromatic. The noodles are okay, not bad, but also not overwhelming, not mushy, not too salty, too, and easy to engulf. 

The broth is really the highlight. If you try the soup, you can taste a range of the most delicious vegetable flavours of ramen soup world in your mouth, with mushroom flavour mostly dominating. The broth is just FUCKING delicious, I don't know how else I can describe it to show how FUCKING amazing it tastes. This one is definitely my favourite vegetarian Ramen. 

Rating: A (no A+ because the noodles could be better *nag nag like a real asian lady* xD)

XXXIII. MAMA Oriental Style Insant Noodle (Chand Clear Soup)

Brand: MAMA

Name: Oriental Style Insant Noodle (Chand Clear Soup)

Price: ?

I have to admit that I still don't have a fucking clue what 'Oriental Style' is supposed to be. But look at the picture above, the french description is 'PREPARATION ALIMENTAIRE À BASE DE RIZ', and entre parenthèses 'À L'ARÔME DE RIZ'. So 'Oriental Style' obviously must have something to do with rice. Does the soup taste like rice? No. Do the noodles taste like rice? Well, they're made out of rice, so they taste like rice... WTF I still don't get it. Entangled in question marks.

blah blah, Pho + powder + green stuff + fat + some strange fatty chunks

I somehow can't get used to that 'Oriental Style' flavour. We already had it here in the past (lol check the mark), and I doubt that I will ever get used to it. I still love Pho, though (you can read all about it here) and these noodles are pretty good, too. They are evenly soft, not too mushy, not too hard, pretty perfect I dare say, they don't even stick to your gums while chewing, like MAMA's Pho Ga.
And then, we have, on the other hand, the broth. Which tastes... crap. I can't describe it, I just didn't like it, the flavours and spices in the soup were pretty strange, not like the common Pho-broth with the cinammon, ginger, star anise, cloves, fish sauce... So pretty unaromatic. It was okay to eat, the noodles made up for the strange taste of the soup.

Rating: C+

XXXII. WAI WAI WAI BRAND Oriental Style Instant Noodles

Brand: WAI WAI
Name: Oriental Style Instant Noodles
Price: 0,40 €

Wow, these noodles, I ate them today, and it wasn't my first time eating them,... but somehow,... I don't understand it, maybe my taste in Ramen changed after having tested so many nice A-plusses,... you gotta read for yourself the rest of this review...

blurred, because I was shakingly starving/starvingly shaking

The dry noodle brick makes a nice snack for it is already salted properly. Just grab it with both hands and munch it like a hamburger. *CRUNCH*

This noodle soup... tasted like total shit. Seriously. Maybe I put in too much water, because I found them a tad bit too tasteless. On the other hand, what the FUCKING HELL is 'Oriental Style' supposed to be for a flavour??? The broth tasted really weird, reaaaally reaaaaaally strange tastes, I can't even describe it, I can only mention that it did not taste good. The noodles were strangely tasteless, too, so that the whole soup was a drag to force down your throat. I think I enjoyed that soup some years ago, but now, even in a starving mode, I find this one reaaallyy disgusting and almost eatable.

Rating: E+ (the + because it is still pretty ok as a DRY snack)

XXXI. Yum Yum Thai Suki Flavour

Brand: Yum Yum

Name: Thai Suki Flavour

Price: ?

This Ramen I bought without having a fucking clue what 'Thai Suki' actually was. Looks delicous, judging from what the picture on the front shows. What do we have here: fat mushrooms, green stuff, a lot of vegetable, prawn??? Sry, the quality of the picture really sucks, I can't identify all that stuff anymore haha =D. OTL

When you open the bag, you get to smell the noodles, which bewaters your mouth. The blue sachet on the left does kinda look like it would contain some screws or other mechanical stuff. This time I also tried the fat before putting in the boiling water, and it was preeetty hot! I also snorted too much powder, unwillingly of course, which gave me a sneezing fit LOL. :'D

The final soup had a nice reddish colour, but it smelled kinda like... barf. Really ewww-wy. Nevertheless I tried it. The taste of the soup was pretty weird, too, for me having had no clue how 'Thai Suki' would taste like. The first impression was very sweet, then the taste of basil, herbs,... And after that, I suddenly knew what it tasted like: Canh chua!!!! (You may know that if you're Vietnamese :p) The same sour taste of the broth, with all the herbs and stuff and flavours and blah, I really had a fucking Déjà-vu, and I was thinking that there was okra and bạc hà missing. The broth is kinda hot (and sweet at the same time, I think not everybody will like this if you're not used to such flavours haha) and I had the feeling, while eating this, the soup got hotter and hotter. Which I kinda liked. It was nicely hot, without giving your tongue agony and death pangs.

Rating: A+ because it reminds me of Vietnamese Canh Chua although this is Thai Suki (maybe it's the same?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! °---°). Add some nice fresh ingredients, like pineapple and tomatoe, for it to look like this, and the broth from Yum Yum would just fit nicely.

XXX. A-One Mì Ly Vegetarian Flavour

Brand: A-One

Name: Mì Ly Vegetarian Flavour

Price: ?

Always wanted to know how vegetarians taste? Oh my gosh, this introduction is so whack, I'm gonna punish myself like Dobby. Ok, now I feel better.

If you do understand the German instructions on this cup, it tells you to do totally different things than the English text. Like the German exact amount of water, or the last part of puting more Chili powder into the soup before stiring and serving. At least everything was written correctly, in contrast to this crappy lovely blog, written by two owls. Yes, we are animals of the night, haha. WTF?!?!?!?! I'm obviously a little bit tired.

Three sachets for a lame, boring vegetarian, ramen, not bad...

After adding water to the noodles/powder/oily stuff/vegetable crap, there was a nice smell of Ramen in the air. After some time steeping and mindlessly staring at the cup for 3 minutes, the noodles were still kinda hard, which I noticed by poking them with my chopsticks, which I didn't like. They were al dente and chewable though in their consistence, tasting pretty much like fried noodles, being salty and neatly spiced. The broth tastes surprisingly good, mainly of mushrooms. What I kinda find strange right now is that I wrote on my notes (right after eating these noodles) that there were many vegetable flakes included. I don't see any vegetable flakes in this picture. OMG, what the... what happened?!?!?! WTF?!?!?!??! This is pretty disturbing... Ok, I obviously need some sleep I guess.

Rating: A-. Minus because they're a tad bit boring.

XXIX. Vina Acecook Hao Hao Instant Noodles Mushroom Flavour

Brand: Vina Acecook
Name: Hao Hao Instant Noodles Mushroom Flavour
Price: ~0,33

Today I have to thank my lovely friend Nhung Fountain for taking these pictures for me because the battery of my phone was flat. :3 It sucks if you can't eat your noodles without having taken a picture of that damn food before you mess it up, with your eating irons, or chopsticks, or the way I always do: What you can't see on the pics I take of Ramen packages is, that I have already ripped one side open, and right after that, I do realise that I haven't taken a picture of the package. Fuck my life. x'D

(c) Nhung Brunnen <3

When opening the package, one can notice the salty, aromatic smell, coming from the noodles. Which means you can eat them as a nice snack, too, without boiling. I think only kids do that, eating the block of noodles uncooked. And losers who don't have boiling water. FAIL! 

For some reason there was no water visible after the 3 minutes time of waiting, maybe I have put in too little, or the noodles have soaked it up entirely. MYSTERY MYSTERY. They were actually pretty good, being already flavoured as a brick, the consistence after cooking being perfect, tastyly thin and curly, just how I like Ramen to be.

A very bad point about these noodles was the mushroom flavour, which didn't taste like mushroom at all. I couldn't taste anything mushroom-like in this broth! And if there is aftertaste, there is also beforetaste, and this one's was kinda vinegar-like, I'm not sure, it was pretty disturbing and kinda aweful everytime I put some noodles in my mouth, smelling/tasting it.

Nevertheless, I finished them noodles, but I don't think I will ever eat them again. Maybe my taste buds are meshuga, too, I don't know, could be a thesis, but if you're hungry, these Hao Hao noodles can actually provide you a decent collation, because who cares about taste if one is starving. Shit, should have written that last sentence as the Rating. (-_____-)

Rating: C+ (for H. :D)

XXVIII. Vina Acecook Artificial Minced Pork Flavour

These are glass noodles from Vina Acecook, Vietnam, with Artificial Pork Flavour.
Another one of those suspicious artificial things... like, are the sitting in a lab, trying to create artificial pork flavour?
Scientist A: ''Hey, how's this, does it taste like artificial pork?''
Scientist B: ''Nah, still too close to real pork. Let's try adding those chemicals, to make it taste less real.''

Well, enough of my crap, here's the review.
Honestly, I don't even remember, how they were.... I forgot to take notes. I usually have for every review a folder with pictures and a Word Document, but it seems to be missing here... or maybe I was drunk? D8

This is what it looks like. I really like the purple and gold colour. ^^

The food picture is also pretty and nice. Although, I actually think, there is no such dish as glass noodle with minced pork in real? o.O''

Everything seperately packed. -.-

Which of course leads to a lot of trash, after unpacking everything. Dx

   

Everything in a bowl. x3

And this is the final result. Oh, so greasy! D8

Uhm yeah... they were ok I guess. Since I don't know, how true artificial minced pork taste, I think these are fairly ok. Ahahaha, I seriously can't remember anymore! xD

Sorry, a B, out of pity. I'm sorry, glass noodles. Maybe I'll give you another try and update my review then. xD

XXVII. NONG SHIM Shin Cup Noodle Soup

Brand: NONG SHIM
Name: Shin Cup Noodle Soup
Price: 1,20 €

These Ramen... I think they are pretty famous among Instant grub fans. Look, even the cast from K-Town eats them! (Check out 5:10) They are from South Korea and pretty pricey, the cup being not even overwhelmingly big for that money. But just wait before you start complaining that you won't be able to eat your fill, you have to try these to join in that conversation first. Like I said earlier, red cups always indicate HOTNESS. Red is evil. Red means pain. Not kidding kids.

even the sachet is dangerously red

There are two sachets included, one with a HELLA lot of vegetable (vide supra), the other one with HELLA red powder. Smelling it before cooking really almost hurt my nasal mucous membrane. If you're a pussy, I recommend only putting in just half the sachet. But eating it like that is really half the fun. And half the pain. Well, embrace the pain, that's what they say. And if you eat it this way, it'll evidence that you're a wimp.

3 min after pouring in the boiling water, there was a dangerous spicey smell in the air. The amount of that vegetable is really impressive, look at all the leek (which I actually hate xP), dried carrot and the fat mushroom chunks (they taste like rubber pieces with mushroom flavour). I dare say that I have never eaten Ramen with that much vegetable included. (I once had some with Uzumaki included, which was pretty awesome and made me go HELLA bananas, but that's a different story that should be told some other time. My sister actually already did a review haha :D)

The noodles are okay, just okay, not really worth mentioning and praising, thick and a little bit too mushy IMO. The broth is HELLA delicious and HELLA hot at the same time. The further you eat that cup down, the hotter it gets, for the bigger chili particels of the powder sinking to the bottom. I almost died when I drank up the rest of the broth after finishing the noodles. Seriously. But it felt good. It was a good pain. Haha.

Rating: Nothing for pussys. Seriously, keep your hands off if you can't stand hotness. But if you do, TRY! THESE! A because they're just fucking awesome.

XXVI. Mama Oriental Rice Vermicelli Tom Yum Koong Flavour

Brand: MAMA
Name: Oriental Rice Vermicelli Tom Yum Koong Flavour
Price: 0,50 €

AHH I can't read Thai so I had no fucking clue what the name of these Noodles were untill I googled 'MAMA Shrimps' and looked up the pictures. Yeah me! Har har. 

OTL

Fact is: If the package of ramen is red or hot orange, (I love the color hot orange hahaha I'm such a chick) it might be most likely an indication that the content is pretty hot. Even without adding the extra pack of chili powder. Just FYI for you Ramen-noobs out there, if you didn't know^^

There was a pack of some dark red paste in it. When I cut it open to pop out the content, (I always cut open the sachets because I never rip it open. That'll only cause a disaster of spoiling everything everywhere. Ramen can be a motherfucker if you don't handle it right. Or if you're obviously an idiot. So am I.) something went on my finger. When I licked it up, it sizzeld on my tongue, seriously, so hot is that damn shiat!!! But it was pretty nice, though, haha.

The broth looks preeeetty red, and the smell when opening the lid to cover the noodles while getting mushy was reaaaaaally fierce, too. The noodles are very thin, which I personally don't like that much, and they also don't get that soft for me to find them awesome. But I absolutely love the broth. It's hot, but you can (or I could :P) still eat it, it's actually not that brutal at all! Well, I could slurp the soup without any problems, my nose just started to run after I almost finished the bowl. It also tastes nicely of shrimps and seafood underneath the hotness.

Rating: If you're not a pussy and into hot stuff, I recommend this Ramen. A