44. Thai Delight Hokkien Noodles

Brand: Thai Delight
Name: Hokkien Noodles
Price: 2,20 €

Today we have a kinda different sort of instant food: The almost-done-only-add-sauce-noodles that come in a stylish chinese-restaurant-take-away-noodle-box-package. There are also different dishes with different packageing colours form Thai Delight. If you read further, you'll find out why these will never be featured in our blog.

The noodles look and taste like spaghetti, which I disliked. Hokkien mee actually contains noodles which are fried. These noodles had not the slightest hint of frying aroma. Instead, it contained another package with a dark brown sauce with baby corn pieces. The instructions are pretty simple, put everything in the box and heat in the microwave for 2 min.

So after 2 min of microwaving, this came out: The noodles still stuck together, and the sauce smelling really weird, kinda sweet and salty. I also screamed for my mommy because I thought I prepared the noodles wrong. After stirring firmly, the noodles kinda got apart (not really). They are a little bit too dry, even with the sauce. And they tasted like common spaghetti. The sauce is reaaaaaaaally weird, it tasted... not good. Too sweet, slightly peppery, and with an eerie after taste that I can't really depict. It was really not good. The corn pieces were pretty tasteless, too, which was very disappointing. I'm glad to know that I will never ever try any other Thai Delight noodle boxes!
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Rating: D

XVIII. MAMA Artificial Duck Flavour Base Ramen Instant Bamie

Brand: MAMA

Name: Artificial Duck Flavour Base Ramen Instant Bamie

Price: ?

This one... I actually bought it because I liked the package with the tasty duck haunch on it. And also because there was Broccoli on it. And I FUCKING love Broccoli to death. Well yeah, as if it was really included in the package FML. So I ate this noodle soup and after I told my sister I tried this one, she said to me something I will never ever forget in my entire life: ‘Never eat duck cuz it always tastes like sh**’.

This soup is no exception. But the main point of critique is not about the duck flavour, which is actually pretty okay (I have to note that I don’t hate duck flavour and don’t think it always tastes like sh**), it’s the noodles. These noodles are slightly different from normal ramen noodles. They are a little bit broader, and when you cook it, they will have a really weird, almost slimey and hard-bitten consistence that makes this ramen so aweful. Maybe these noodles aren't meant to be in a soup because they are really badly soaked up in the broth which probably adds to the balefully slimyness. Maybe the package tries to take the piss out of everybody who buys it by pretending it's a soup, when in reality it is  a fried noodle dish or something like that. Very weird IMO.  Just try it. See for yourself if I was right. This soup is merely eatable. *shivers*

Rating: D-: