49. MAMA Flat Yentafo

Brand: MAMA

Name: Flat Yentafo

Price: ~0,40 €

I already posted about the MAMA Yentafo soup with the thin rice noodles (see HERE). So this review is actually obsolete, because they taste the same. However I took some pictures, so enjoy:

ERMAHGERD IT'S PINK!!!

added some sweetly fried tofu pieces in there...... oouuuhhhhhwwwww they taste like heaven

The thing about the noodles is: They stick together, and those fat strangs are too hard. That's why I would recommend the thin noodles over these flat ric noodles, though they are not that good, either.


Rating: C-

47. MAMA Oriental Style Instant Noodles Vegetable Flavour

Brand: MAMA
Name:  Oriental Style Instant Noodles Vegetable Flavour
Price: 0,40€

Today is so hot so I don't wanna write much. I have a lot of pictures for you to look at! :D

The yellow bag contains oil, which is very liquid.

I kinda had the feeling that the noodles did absorb a lot of water...

...so I added some more hot water, but the soup was very insipid after that. Better eat it just like that. I have to mention that the broth is really not that special anyways, not really tasting like vegetables to be honest. 

I added fried tofu strips for an increased delicious look. 

Rating: The soup was pretty much as boring as my review, so it receives a B.

46. MAMA Yentafo Rice Vermicelli

Brand: MAMA
Name: Yentafo Rice Vermicelli
Price: 0,50 €

This package of MAMA's Yentafo noodle soup would easily win the prize for kitschiest package/best colour combination. Yentafo is some kind of sauce that originates from Thailand. (And it's PINK!!!! Ermahgerd!) 

To be honest, I have little knowlegde about Thai kitchen. I'm sorry. I haven't tried any Yentafo dishes before to be able to make conclusions and comparisons between instant noodle soup Yentafo and real Yentafo, so I'm just rating this soup out of personal taste.

blah. Powder, fat and rice noodles. Nothing special here.

The broth also takes the prize for prettiest/most unexpected colour in noodle soup. It tastes sweet if you only eat the noodles, and more sourish and salty when you drink the broth. It's also a liiiiiiittle bit hot, but almost merely remarkably. The noodles are shitty, though. They do not really get soft, but stay somewhat hard after boiling, although they are so thin. It feels weird when you chew them. The soup would be so much better if the noodles weren't that disappointing.

Rating: C

42. MAMA Instant Bean Thread Clear Soup

Brand: MAMA
Name: Instant Bean Thread Clear Soup
Price: ?

I really love these fat Shiitake mushrooms on the package... And this time, it proves that even sometimes you really get what is on the cover, even with instant noodles!...

...but if you think you'll get REAL Shiitake and coriander and that weird-looking stuff on the left of the pack that kinda looks like hash (I mean the meat, you dumbass!!!), you're really dumb, hahahahahhahahahahahahahaha. The size of the noodle brick is pretty lousy, too.

Here's why I wrote you et what's pictured on top: the flavouring fat really tastes of Shitake. It was stunning! It also smells really strongly like coriander, which I personally don't like that much. Though the soup looks very boring, the noodles were pretty good: the possibility of choking on them is pretty high, that's what makes them good! So slimy and slippery, just be careful not to eat them too fast, har har. I finfished the bowl in about 2 minutes, don't try to beat my record, mate. 

The only bad thing here is the sand that remains, particels from the flavour powder that failed to dissolve.

Rating: B+

41. MAMA vegetable flavour

Brand: MAMA

Name: oriental style vegetable flavour

Price: 0,40

OH MY FUCKING GOSH I hate oriental flavour!!! As you might know, if you are a loyal reader of this blog, you may have noticed that I already wrote a review about some oriental noodles (Read it HERE) which I found really aweful. And as you may have noticed, this blog was kinda abandoned for a while, sorry for that. Being a student sucks. 

I have to say that the image on the package looks very appealing though, with all that vegetable, mushrooms, BROCCOLI and the gold-shimmering foil. If I'd have to award the best-looking ramen package, this one would have good chances to win I guess. HAHAHAHAH.

Contains one pack of fat and one pack of powder



The result looks very boring, too, I suddenly wonder where the fuck this green leaf/vegetable thing comes from... Well, the Ramen tasted pretty weird in the beginning, but after that impression, it tasted very mushroom-y. Not quite as good as A-One's vegetable ramen I have to say, but still ok. You just have to overcome the first mouthful. I'm just very glad that this one didn't taste 'oriental style' at all, and that means not the taste of dreadful WAI WAI noodles. I'm still traunatized, folks.

Rating: B+

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+

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

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-: