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 

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

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)

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

XXIV. Vifon Vietnamese Style Instant Noodles Chicken Flavour

Guess who's back? Again?
Hahahaha, I only missed out for three weeks! No need to get angry and miss me, ok? :P
I uhm... simply forgot about this blog.
Had lots of yummy, fresh, authentic, with-lots-of-love-made asian food from my mum, so I completely forgot, how to even spell I-N-S-T-A-N-T!
Well... that is until I remembered... that I do have to go back to my appartmant and ''cook'' and eat alone before long. I'll actually go back this weekend. TT_____TT

Thanks mummy for all the delicous food! I gained 3kg! 8D

Here is my review on Vifon Vietnamese Style Instant Noodles Chicken Flavour, which name I just copied and pasted from the entry below! Trololol

I must admit: I looooooove these!!! So, so, so, so, so delicous! *A*

Look at the package! It has noodles, chicken stripes, peppermint leaves, leek, chillis, onions, mushroom and a chicken egg (I believe...) on it! Such nice coloring! Makes you really want to buy it! :D

Inside is this...

...which turns out into this...

...and then this. (Too many pics and too lazy. xP)

Pour in your boiling water and you have...

...THIS! :D

Look at all those fat and grease bubbles! Yum! 

Stir it and you have delicous Pho! And more fat and grease bubbles! xD

They are so delicous! 8Q________

Let's start with the smell. It has an awesome Pho smell full of spices, cinnamon and stuff, plain delicous. The smell can be discribed as a sweet flowery smell... wtf? o.O

There are veeery weird ''chicken'' pieces in it… they are chewy and tastes like… nothing? Hard to put into words but like something old? You get what I mean? No? >.<

Don’t pull the noodles to high, cause the most likely will rip and you will splash yourself and your laptop, papers and books with scalding hot and oily water! -.-''

Add your Sriracha Chilli Sauce for more awesome and authentic Pho, like the vietnamese Mum would make for you, if you had one! Chilli is always relevant. *___*

Conclusion: It's a little reminder of what you could get at home, mum-made with love. Mummy I ♥ you! *sobs* A generous A, because I love Pho and unlike my sister, haven't tried the bowl Pho yet. x3

XX. MAMA Rice Noodles with Artificial Chicken Flavour

Brand: MAMA
Name: Rice Noodles with Artificial Chicken Flavour
Price: 1,50 €

Pho is probably the most known and most famous noodle soup of Vietnam, an actually pretty simple dish with delicious flat white rice noodles that feel smooth and sleek in your mouth, and meat broth companied by Chicken or Beef (phở gà = with Chicken, phở bò = with Beef; dear Marisha Pessl, you got that wrong in your novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Just sayin'. Great book though). You also add tons of other fresh ingredients such as chili, lemon juice, and lots and lots of herbs, to make it so complete and perfect tasting. Even Matt Heafy, lead singer of Trivium and easily the hottest guy on earth, is crazy about Pho (check his blog if you want to try real good and fresh Vietnamese stuff in Seattle). OMG, can you please get divorced and marry me, you smokin' hot motherf*****? Haha, just joking. No, actally I'm not. -_- (Sorry, didn't mean to insult you, I just fucking want a baby from you har har)

clumpy flavouring oil, a powder sachet and another ugly plastic fork

picspaaaaam

If you don't have the chance or occasion to have freshly cooked Pho, I recommend this Instant Pho which is pretty delicous and satisfying if you are craving for it. The noodles are very thin which I like a lot, but if you eat them too cold or too slow they will taste weird in that cooled state, kinda brashly and floury, especially if they stick to your gums, because they are so flat OTL. The broth is pretty good, also, perfectly salted, pretty close to that typical Pho soup broth taste which you might have tried before if you are a cool person that is interested in Vietnamese food :D. There are also some weird Chicken (flavoured) chunks (not sure if it's real chicken Ö.ö), maybe to make up for the fact that the soup doesn't really taste like chicken, and dried vegetable pieces which make the soup not look totally boring. So thumbs up on this one!

Rating: A

III. Bean Vermicelli Good TOM YUM KUNG FLAVOUR

Next review! Since I'm not in the mood to do my homework in Chinese yet. >.<

It's about VINA ACECOOK's Bean Vermicelli Good in Tom Yung Kung Flavour! It's vietnamese, therefore all the vietnamese, english, french, whatever language on it...

 (Pretty impressive package design. I like red and gold. The date-stamp kinda ruined it though. =.='')

(Ingriedients in waaay too much foil! When I finished unpacking, the water already finished cooking! Dx)

 (Dumped everything in a bowl... well amost everything because...)

(I spilled the powder, tearing open the sachet. OTL

Looks like the noodle soup has something against my rice-cooker...)

 (Right after pouring the boiling water in.)

 (After 5 minutes I opened the lid and it still looks the same... o.O )

 (Yummy Uzumaki! *O*)

So here is, how it is: 

It's mild hot, BUT everything is hotter when hot! I really can't eat spicy food, so this was really marginal. Not the kind, where you feel your esophagus melting and your mouth-imitating-hell spicy, but the one, were you need a glass of water with the food.

The taste is pretty good, just your typical sour & hot soup.

The dried shrimp in it is sweet, which was... interesting. x3 Uzumaki is awesome, tastes slightly fishy and sweet!!! Where can I get a whole package of that? Need mor Uzumaki in my life! *____*

Noodles are just the right consistency, a little chewy, but edible. Weird onion/herb chunks are weird… still NO idea, what that is suppose to be, because it tastes like nothing. WTF?

All in all, a sweet and hot A!