Over 5,000 Instant Ramen Noodle Reviews Since 2002
Thanks to Cindy C. of Middlesex, England’s amazingly kind donation, we’ve got a myriad of instant noodles from the U.K. to review now! I’ve wanted to try Pot Noodle ever since I heard of it a while back, and so here we go with the first of many, Original Curry flavour!
Recently, I got an email from in the UK named Cindy C. offering to send me some instant noodles. I said sure! Well, she really came through and I want to say thanks! Here’s the box they came in, a Dell laptop box! When I picked it up and carried it back to my apartment, I was really curious why it was so heavy – surely she didn’t send me a laptop!
Hey! Haven’t tried this yet! Pancit Canton is a lot like Indomie’s Mi Goreng – that’s one of my favorites!
Vegetable flavor huh? Vegetables are supposedly something that makes one healthy. I don’t think they’re present in much of a relevant amount here, but let’s see what we’ve got.
Every day, I’m trying to get more and more people involved in this website, whether through comments or recommendations, criticisms or donations. So I’m going to go out on a limb and ask if some of you could help out. If there’s a review or particular page or just the whole site you enjoy, talk about it on Facebook or Twitter or Reddit. StumbleUpon (www.stumbleupon.com) is a great spot to thumbs up pages and write reviews – This month a ton of people checked out the site’s recipes pages because someone wrote a one-line review on StumbleUpon!
Here’s the newest, latest and greatest noodle timer. Just hit play when you add water to your cup noodle or drop your noodle block in the pot and when the somewhat annoying music is over, you may calmly enter a zen state and enjoy some instant noodles.
Here’s another one from Nathan up in Vancouver. First off, this one’s BIG. it calls for 700mL of water and to be cooked for 5-6 minutes! Aside from this stuff, there are some oddities I noticed that were kind of interesting.
Here’s the new list in Word format. It contains all 598 reviewed and ‘sitting in the ramen hamper awaiting review’ varieties. Want to donate something not on the list here? Email info@ramenrater.com for details.
So this guy comments on the Maruchan Cheese Yakisoba review and tells me he did a YouTube video – well, here it is. Pretty funny – plus it had a pug in it as well. Good stuff – keep it up!
Here’s another Dutch noodle from Michael V.N. in Holland! He informed me that kip means chicken – it’s kind of funny as almost every other noodle package that is chicken flavored usually has some kind of image of a chicken on it – this one’s covert!
One of my favorite things in all the world of cuisine is curry. Hot curry, curry soup, curry beef, curry chicken, curry vindaloo, curry powder, curry paste, green curry, yellow curry, masaman curry, Indian curry and Japanese curry. This sounded good and I’m starving.
Hey this looks shmancy! Nothing better than an interesting new pack of noodles from Indonesia.
So I found out about this today and thought it sounds rather interesting. I’m hoping I might be able to do an actual review of these soon as they sound quite good! Here’s a press release about it:
Here’s another of the Yum Yum’s that were sent from Holland! Chicken flavor eh? I like chicken as well as chickens!
I’ve been wondering something for awhile: is the number of reviews I have
listed exactly accurate? The issue was that there were a few re-reviews
and also that I hadn’t numbered reviews done before #200, so it was a somewhat
imprecise ‘guesstimate.’ Well, the wondering about it is over and the result
is that I had shorted myself on counting eight reviews! What I did was
added numbers to the titles of the reviews starting at the first until
I got to about #120 and then started at the #199th review and went backward
in hopes of them meeting at the middle. So the ones that ended up between
where #117 and #118 should have met are these, which I have numbered up
from the current last review. So the next review will be #541. Here’s the
links to the ones that were renumbered.
Thanks to Nathan R. of Vancouver, Canada, I have this wonderful package of noodles that I will be devouring shortly. Was sure I’d had every variety of the Doll line but apparently I haven’t – I think maybe this one just isn’t distributed in the USA.
So Nathan R. from Vancouver, Canada sent me a nice box of noodles from across the border!
Hey thanks! Let’s see what’s inside!
Here’s some more from Michael V.N. of Holland! Thanks again! This one’s called Yum Yum – had my son choose whether I should have the chicken or the beef and he told me I should have the beef today and the chicken tomorrow. Sounds like a plan!
This was a neat find at a local market I don’t go to very often. There’s a long aisle of instant noodles and I noticed a single instant noodle cup that didn’t seem to have any place where it would go. So I went around to the other side of the aisle and was hoping there’d be more. Well, there wasn’t a continuation of instant noodle aisle, but I did find this one in a weird spot, again with no correlating spot on the main aisle. With that, once again I bring you what you want.
A new find today at a big Korean supermarket nearby. Been a while since I’ve reviewed anything by Sapporo Ichiban. What’s interesting too is that the packaging proclaims that it’s new! Also on the back it says it’s three servings! Boy, this economy sure is hitting everyone hard! Now instant noodle rationing!
Check it out! Thanks to Ramen Rater blog follower Michael V.N.’s donation package, we have the first ever noodles to review from Holland! Not only a new country but a new brand – Unox. The package has directions on the back to either make just noodles or noodle soup – I decided for the noodle soup.
Wow – what an inviting variety! Wheat gluten stewed duck flavored!
So this is a big bowl of the Little Cook stuff – Namchow makes it. These are always interesting.
Well here we go with some domesticated ramen. This is a fresh pack by a supermarket available brand.
Here’s the last of the JML brand noodles from Greg B. of Florida. Looks like it will be hot and spicy!
So this came in the mail today from Eric Z., the guy who has been commenting almost daily on the site and helped translate the Itomen Yellow Buckwheat noodle bowl from a while back. He sent a letter:
Got a package in the mail today from Michael V.N. of Holland!
Was like opening little Christmas presents wrapped in Dutch newspaper!
Whilst digging through my bin of packages of instant noodles for a particular one I was sent to review tomorrow, I realized I wasn’t hungry for a big pack tonight so went for the cup noodle you see here. Spicy seafood sounds relaxing.
Hate to say it but this is the last of the Dragonfly brand bowls I found at H-Mart… Bummer! I guess there’s a pork flavor out there in this line so hopefully I’ll end up scoring that one next time I go to H-Mart. Hot & sour shrimp… Sounds like Tom Yum flavor… I guess we’ll see…
Was very happy to see this one at the store today! I really like Samyang stuff. I liked their regular bowl, cup, big bowl, pack, beef flavor… It’s good, spicy and straightforward Korean noodles.
Here’s another Menraku coming atcha. Been weird the last two days; gotten over 10,000 visits to the blog from people using StumbleUpon and ending up on the ‘Recipes’ page… Pretty cool! Anyways, this looks like an interesting bowl of noodles and should be tasty. Let’s dig in.
This one seems a little unique. I never have seen something like a swastika on a bowl of noodles before – its somewhat foreboding to be honest! Taiwanese noodles with swastikas… Well, I figured I’d better look this up and got this nice piece of information from Wikipedia:
Greg B. of Florida put one on his Vespa!
Here’s what Mike M. from Staten Island, NY did with one of his.
Sheesh – almost 20% through the 500’s – didn’t expect that to happen so quickly! So here we have the Snapdragon cup, Beijing Vegetable. I got it locally but if you want to try it you can get it here. These have been pretty good so far – let’s see how the veggies do…
This is a big bowl of noodles from China. So far, I’ve tried Dragonfly’s Onion, Seafood and Beef flavors. I’m really happy with how nice those have been and eager to try this one!
So I let my wife pick between two packs of noodles and she picked this as the one I should eat today! Thai Ginger sounds really good to me – I like Thai flavors and I like ginger a lot. Let’s see how this tastes!
Here’s a new one – Wang brand. It’s a fresh noodle big bowl from Korea.
As you can see, big and from Korea.
Here’s some more kosher aisle ramen. This stuff was previously purchased but never reviewed. Why?
Haven’t had a fresh noodle bowl in a while. This one comes from Shirakiku and claims to be a hot one. It definitely looks nice on the packaging. I’m still under the weather so the spicy stuff helps with the sinuses!
I was kind of tripped out by this bowl of noodles: artificial onion? Why would they need to go the artificial route on this one? Well, why don’t I look at the ingredients. Oh look! Onion powder and onion oil. I’m confused… Anyways, here we go…
