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-

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.

XIV. Samyang Hot & Spicy Beef Flavour Ramen Sutah

Brand: Samyang
Name: Sutah Hot & Spicy Beef Flavour Ramen
Price: ?

This one is a guest review by my dad. Korean instant noodle packages tend to be bigger than the noodle soups from other countries. Why is that so? I have no fucking clue. But it's pretty nice haha. lol

Does anybody know the moment when you open up the sachet with the flavour powder and pour it over your noodles and accidentally breathe in the little dust particles flying around and get a sneezing flash? I immediately knew that this soup is going to be so fucking hot. My daddy had to eat them, though, haha. Phheeeew.
Vegetable was also included.

After my dad ate it, I asked him how it was. He said it was a little bit spicy. But he seemed okay. =D

Rating: B+

XI. Nong Shim Chapagetti

Brand: NONG SHIM

Name: Chapagetti

Price: 1,20 €

 What I love most about Korea besides way too perfect plastic idols, funky crazy music with crappy funny Engrish, Kimchi, Soju, undergroundseoul.tumblr.com and seoulnightlife.tumblr.com is this one: Chapagetti. I dunno why they call it Chapagetti here, it’s actually Jajangmyun, the famous black bean noodle dish of Dae Han Min Guk.  Ahhhhh, Korean food is just simply freaking awesome.

I also kinda like how aesthetic the round brick of uncooked yellow noodles look. Fits perfectly in the bowl. Omg that is SOOOOOOOOO COOL!!! <(*O*)>

Note that this is a different level from cooking normal boring ramen: You have to cook the noodles and the vegetable first, pour out the water without losing too much of the little asshole-vegetable chunks and then add the powder and oil. If you mess up, you’re a loser and your Chapagetti will taste crap.

mash dat shiat thoroughly

It actually looks kinda like crap. But when I first screwed up my courage and tried it, it was like heaven, like having an orgasm in my mouth. The taste is so heavenly, but it’s pretty hard to describe, it’s kinda... like... smoked, sweet, aromatic, ... screw that, I really can’t describe it. Just try it. It’s really worth it.

Rating: A fucking +

VIII. BON GO JANG Udon Noodles with Soup Base Kimchi Flavour (part 2)

(Both my sister and I have reviewed these noodles. Check out her review here: http://qtramenreview.blogspot.de/2012/05/ii-udon-noodles-with-soup-base-kimchi.html. Note the ratings at the end haha.)

Brand: BON GO JANG

Name: Udon Noodles with Soup Base Kimchi Flavour

Price: ?

A fat and big colorful package with a nice fat bowl of noodles on the front, high-quality thick wrapping foil, noodles also wrapped in a plastic bag. Anyways, I don’t have a freaking clue what ‘no refrigeration’, ‘LONG LIFE’ and ‘no preservation’ on the package means and how these things are connected with each other and the noodle soup. Maybe my brain can’t analyze the logical meaning behind this as well. A freaking riddle. How disturbing.

Y U produce so much waste, Bon Go Jang-shi, you befoul mother earth!!! D:

What’s also quite disturbing is the shock-frozen/fart-dry brick of Kimchi that first got me thinking it had to be a bad joke.

After finishing boiling and waiting, I tried the soup and thought there were suddenly stripes of plastic foil in my fucking broth. But it turned out to be the ‘Kimchi’, or at least what tried to be Kimchi or to act like Kimchi or to fool people by making them think it’s Kimchi. So disturbing, tastes like rubbish in my soup. The broth is pretty disappointing, too, not spicy enough, plain, flavourless and insipid.

Well, the only good thing left to say maybe is about the Udon noodles. Fat, white and soft. But they deserve to be bathing in a more delicious soup. Though the colour is actually pretty nice. But the rest is still crap.

Rating: Unnie, this soup looks so expensive and was so disappointing! D+

IV. Bowl Noodle Soup Hot&Spicy

Hello!
This is another post by Q.A!
Since my sister doesn't have access to a computer during work days, I'm in charge of updating, but... I forgot (and was lazy). Sorry! OTL


Ok, so this is a review on Nongshim's Bowl Noodle Soup Hot&Spicy. Another korean noodle soup! :D
It comes in a plastic bowl, where you only have to pour water in. Super convenient for lazy people like me! One bowl less to wash! Yeah!!! ^O^

 (What's quiet surprising is, that the end-result actually looks like what's in the picture printed on it for once. o.O)

 (Clear and good to see instructions.)

 (No complicated 20 sachets of artificial whatsoever. Just one Powder Soup bag.)

 (Open lid to the half, pour boiling water in, close it and wait 3min...)

 (Open, stir it and you have a delicious meal! ^^)

The eating:

It's super delicious! Perfect spicyness (, because I only put in 3/4 of the soup powder. :P)

The noodles have a yummy soft consistency. 

A lot of funny stuff in there: Your obligatory leek/green stuff/grass/whatever, you see those raddish like things in the picture above? It's actually fish cake. Well, it tastes fishy and is chewy soft. Same with the round yellow things.

I just had one problem. I remember loving these noodles, because there was Uzumaki inside, but i couldn't find any!!!

BUT:

After i was almost done, ONE popped up. I feel so cheated! Last time I ate it, there were at least 4! Dx


It's still super delicous, so I'll give it a A+!!!

II. Udon Noodles With Soup Base KIMCHI FLAVOUR

Hello!

This is Q.A's Udon review!

I know, first post of mine and already no ramen. xP

Anyways, I'll show my n00b of a sister, how a good posts looks like! Muhahahaha~

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My review will be about these korean Udon Noodles. The brand is Bon Go Jang, I assume, and the noodles are called Udon Noodle Soup with Soup Base Kimchi Flavour!

The packaging is really nice. Hard foil, really nice pictures and I like the orange ombre coulour

Very pleasing to the eye, yes. ^^

Aaaaaaaand another reason I bought them is:

I will have long life!!! So awesome! I HAD to buy it! xD

What sucked, was the humongous sticker sticked on the back. The problem was, ON the sticker were NO cooking directions! And peeling it off was really a hassle, but there were at least english instructions underneath. How are non-english speakers suppose to eat this, huh?! Fail...

All the awesome stuff inside:

Let's go!

1. Boil 400ml of water in a pot.

Didn't have anything to measure the water. so I just filled half a pot. I'm a poor student ok? Why else would I life of of noodle soup. If I had money, I would be eating fast food everyday!

Boiling water, check!

2. Put noodles, soup base and kimchi block into boiling water and cook for two minutes.

(I failed at ripping it open properly so I had to use scissors to cut it open. -.-'')

(Very weird block of shock dried kimchi... I'm still not sure, what that block was... o.O)

(Well, after some cooking it melted into something kimchi-like.)

Alright!
3. Stir well and serve.

(Delicously boiling soup. *___*)

If you're asking, yes, I most of the time eat out of the pot. I don't want to wash an extra bowl, ok?!

Ok, the noodles are pretty chewy. I' more used to soft Udon, so it was a little weird... maybe I should have cooked them longer... then again, 2 minutes were written on the package. >.<

The broth, is really good! It isn't too salty and has the nice sour kimchi taste to it and a slight hottness, which is totally bearable. I really like it! I will give it a A-!