Despite ardent searching, I had never previously found a plain chicken instant ramen during a Japan trip. This time, I did! Let’s add it to the review series:
This is not just any chicken ramen, this is the chicken ramen; the very first ever ramen made by Nissin. It also has some sort of omelet inclusion, but we can ignore that for the purposes of blog review eligibility 🙂
As with most ramen made for the Japanese market, the flavour is already infused into the noodles. Similar products I’ve tried in the past have been a bit too intense for me, but I kept an open mind if only because I didn’t have anything else for breakfast this morning.
Incidentally this product contains Calories, 9.6 g of fat and an incredible surely-the-translator-has-made-a-mistake 5300 mg of salt!
After a struggle with a slightly mysterious kettle, hot water was secured and the product was prepared. The omelette (?) brick melted instantly when water was poured on it, released the egg and veggies into the soup. The noodles cooked well. It was time to eat!
It was good! In fact it was quite good! It didn’t taste much like what I think chicken ramen should, but the taste wasn’t at all disagreeable (unlike the ‘grass’ taste many bad chicken ramens have) and I didn’t even mind the weird egg bits floating around. Using my undisputed chopstick mastery, I ate it all.
I liked this enough that if I lived here I would happily eat it again. It’s definitely not up to the hallowed heights of Gefen, but it’s easily a solid 8 out of 10.