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

43. Vewong A-One Tương tàu

Brand: Vewong

Name: A-One Tương tàu

Price: ?

Hello, dear readers, followers and random people that got lost in the Internet to stumble across this blog. I rose from the dead to, eh, blog. Sorry for keeping you waiting. (=_____=)"

This ramen here was actually a birthday present from my sister. No, wait.... could it be that she even gave me that before? I really can't remember. Well, anyways, here's the review:

First of all, I have to admit that, after eating these noodles, I thought I was having no fucking clue what Tương tàu actually is. I even googled it to make sure that Tương tàu is actually what I though it was before. It's a salty sauce made of black beans, containing whole pieces of them, too. What I went through here though was... pretty unexpected, I should say.

Only by opening the pack and seeing that it contained TWO(!!!!) packs of glutamate made me go like whuad. I even assumed that this soup must taste pretty decent if it contains so much glutamate. The bag down left I threw away immediately, it was chili. The one above contained a preeeeeeeeeeeeeetty strange oil/mass/fat portion, with little dark crumbs of something I cannot identify. One could suppose it was the black beans, but... go on reading, I'm still traumatised, actually...

here it still looks good, because I haven't tasted it yet

The red oil on the surface wasn't spicy, this soup wasn't spicy at all. At the beginning it tasted kinda sourish, later the broth is just salty, and very plain. I didn't taste any black beans at all, I have to admit. And I didn't even taste the two bags of glutamate! The broth was a 3/10.

And then, this popped up:

These curious dark, round crumbs. They looked like pepper, but they aren't. They tasted salty, which did remind me of black bean sauce though. But were crunchy. The crunchy type that, if you eat chicken drumsticks and come to the thinner lower side, you come upon some kind of darker bone stuff that is softer than actual bone and taste of nothing, but if you accidently chew it, it will stick between your teeth. Can anybody relate? Well it sounds pretty weird but these crumps reminded me of that.... I even tried to figure out what that was by looking it up on the ingredients, but..... I found nothing. This is so fucking suspicious, I tell ya.


Rating: I would not recommend this Ramen to you since I find it so suspicious and odd... Can somebody maybe tell me what that the black crumbs really are? Does anybody know? Oh my god, WHAT DID I JUST EAT?!?!??!?! (/;  A ;)/ (D)

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)

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)