Category: Food
Ramen 22: The Power And The Chook
Incredibly, I found four more as-yet-unreviewed chicken ramen noodles! Let’s get to tasting…
Coles Chicken Brown Rice Noodles (283 Calories, 3.4 g fat, 1470 mg sodium)
This was very good! I was still a little jet-lagged when I tried this one and the rich broth and tasty noodles gave me an energy injection. If I lived here in Australia, I’d eat this one again: 8/10
Supreme Noodles Chicken Noodle Cup (372 Calories, 13.7 g fat, 1610 mg sodium)
By comparison this was absolutely terrible. Wretched stringy noodles and a bit of overly-salty flavoring led to a woeful ‘meal’ that belongs in the bin. A miserable 1/10.
Coles Chicken Instant Noodles (1285 kJ, 13.4 g fat, 1095 mg sodium)
I had the brick version of this last year and it is at best acceptable. This is a ramen you’d eat to stay alive but not ever choose. I’ll give it bonus points for the abundance of veggies but as an uninspired example it’s only worth about 5/10.
Maggi Wholegrain Chicken 2-Minute Noodles (960 kJ, 1.3 g fat, 900 mg sodium)
Brick noodles seem less common here than in the USA, and chicken examples are quite rare. This unusual wholegrain version of Maggi chicken noodles are very low in fat and sodium, and I enjoyed them quite a lot. A good chicken taste combined with some slightly chewy noodles meant a nice dinner after a 35,000 step walk on a sunny day. I’ll probably eat this one again: 8/10
And so the series that I thought ended years ago racked up yet another installment. Could there one day be another (which would introduce the 60th noodle)? I hope so, and I know you do too 🙂
Ramen Universes Beyond: Hatsune Miku
It’s time for another investigation into the world of branded ramen. Today I have something very special:
Yes my friends, a Hatsune Miku leek flavored blue ramen. And it’s very cutely packaged as well:
Look at her enjoying delicious leek noodles. How could I not pay $4.99 for this item after seeing this art? (If you’re wondering, Hatsune Miku is everyone’s favourite vocaloid and if that means nothing to you then just think of her just as Hello Kitty crossed with a pop idol.)
I’ll admit I was a little concerned by the appearance of the product before adding water. Rice noodles are rarely good, and the flavoring seemed to just be fine onion powder. For those keeping track, it contains 190 kCal, 1g of fat, and 1140 mg of sodium.
As you know, professional ramen enthusiasts utilize noodle stoppers when they steep their cup noodles, so it’s a good thing I recently purchased a new one:
Yep, a Miku noodle stopper for some Miku noodles! It was a match made in noodle heaven:
Once the boiling water was added, I patiently waited, and when it was ready I opened the lid and this is what I saw:
It looked like a children’s drink with cut grass floating on it. And even though I let the noodles soak about twice as long as suggested they were still suspiciously rigid. But such thing shouldn’t stop a professional food critic, so I dove right in:
Of course it was terrible. The noodles were elastic bands, and the broth tasted of nothing at first (that’s the only 1g of fat right there) , but had an ‘evil vegetable’ aftertaste that lingered for hours. The blue broth was extremely off-putting, and overall this was a wretched ramen experience. Needless to say I don’t recommend this, even for the spectacle.
At least the noodle stopper is cute. Look at her noodly hair! Reminds me a bit of Uzumaki…