More ramen; you know the drill by now…
Kusari Noodles Chicken Ramen (280 Calories, 3 g fat, 1440 mg sodium)
Surprisingly this UK import is on shelves at Walmart. KLS had one of these flavors on one of our holidays and given I’ve found cup noodle products to be of general high quality in the UK I was hopeful about this one. I prepared it as instructed and opened my mouth…
And it was awful! The uncooked noodles were weirdly long and plastic, and when cooked were fibrous and difficult to bite through. But this was nothing compared to the taste, which was of effluvia and regret. I only managed half a spoonful before pouring the broth down the sink and tossing the ‘noodles’ in the trash. An easy score of 0/10
Chef Woo’s Roast Chicken (330 Calories, 14 g fat, 1220 mg sodium)
Another chicken flavour from this overpriced brand that recently found its way into our local supermarket. If you read the last installment you’ll have learned that these ramens were notable only for their blandness, so my expectations weren’t high.
But it was different… in a very bad way. Weirdly brown noodles with the consistency of rotten flesh floated limply in a briney broth redolent of decay. The rehydrated vegetables added nothing at all to an experience that started at the bottom and quickly descended. I’ll never eat this again, and I shouldn’t have even eaten the spoonful I had today. Score: -10/10
Gefen Ramen Noodles (392 Calories, 17 g fat, 1337 mg sodium)
Luckily, after the previous two horrors, I had a stash of God’s Own Ramen to fall back on. Back in my third installment I gave the cup noodle version of this 10/10 but KLS has maintained this brick ramen version to be even superior. Could that be true?
Preparation is easy and the delicate white noodles seem the same as those in the cup. There’s only one flavor packet here (no veggies) but it’s easy to prepare and you’ll be eating in no time. And the taste… it’s just sublime. This is without question the best brick ramen in existence and it’s hard to imagine how it could be improved. Does it surpass the cup version? Only a supertaster could decide! Another easy 10/10!
Amazingly this is (still!) not the final ramen post. Watch this space in a month or so for the next installment 🙂