Nissin Demae Ramen - Prawn Flavor

Today's walk to the asian supermarket was a lot of fun. Was nice to be able to chat with my lady on the phone whilst perusing the noodle aisle of 99 Ranch Market. I gave her the choice of which I should get - Miso, Seafood or Prawn flavor Nissin Demae ramen. I had a feeling she'd go for the prawn flavor...
A lonely single packet of soup base came with this one. I must admit though, the shiny purple packet went quite interestingly with the pink packaging...
Here's the soup base awaiting the noodles and liquid. I cooked the noodles extra long this time. I thought maybe if the noodles were a bit more engorged and soft, it might taste and consist more like udon.


It worked. These noodles were a little fatter and very good. They plumped up nicely. The broth came out nicely too. It does remind me very much of prawn - and I really like prawn! Not overbearing, not too salty; a light 'of the sea' hint as well. A let down on the packet lack, but really when it comes down to it, its great because of its simplicity. I give this one 3.25 out of 5 stars.

Indomie Rasa Baso Sapi - Meatball Flavor

So today I made Kitten some noodles for breakfast! This is some tasty stuff!
Seasoning powder, seasoned oil. That's it. This is pretty surprising for an Indomie pack of noodles as there's usually a ton of different packets. She didn't want it too spicy so I kept the chili powder out of the mix.
So the finished product: the noodles are hidden by three fried eggs with a little salt and pepper and fried shallot on top.
So the end result? She liked it a lot! Here's her review:

"I would say 2.5 (out of 5 stars). They were flavorful and the only way I can describe it is it was like it was spicy but without any heat. It was also very salty and that was a bit of a turn off. The egg on top helped set off the taste of the salt but once it was gone it was almost too much. The "meatballs" tasted only slightly meaty and the crunchyness gave the ramen nice texture."

Indomie - Mi Goreng Rendang (Beef Flavor)

Ah the glorious 99 Ranch Market. It takes about 40 minutes to walk there (at a very fast walk), pick out some noodles and then walk home.
Today I picked the 49 cent Indomie Mi Goreng Rendang. Never ever have I tried this before. I read someone reviewed it as being "the hottest curry flavor ever" and that piqued my curiosity.
So there was a flavored oil, a sweet soy sauce and a little sachet of fried onions hooked together on the left there, and on the right is chili powder and seasoning powder. I'm gathering that rendang means beef as the english on the packaging mentioned beef. Funny, no mention of curry...
The seasonings at the bottom of the bowl as they await some drained noodles.
The final product. I added some fried shallot three fried eggs and some kizami shoga (hot pink ginger). I think the other review was a little off. They mentioned heat. I think our palates must differ in the extreme as the heat was very slight. I really liked the flavor here too - a nice beef kind of taste to it and since it didn't have the usual sweet hot chili paste (manas pedas) it was very mellow even with the chili powder. All in all, this tasted great! 4.5 out of 5 stars! Hooray for Indomie!

Nissin Demae Ramen - Shoyu Flavor

So this is one of the few flavors left at 99 Ranch Market for me to try to here we go. Felt like a rather we stuffed package which gave me hopes of an interesting and unique meal with surprises and multiple packets...
So got the standard dry powder, a 'seasoning sauce' which was carrying a decent amount of black thick liquid and some little bits o' seaweed for that 'of the sea' glavor we all crave.
Standard nowadays instructions apply... Cook noodles in 2 1/4c water and then dump it into the bowl with the seasonings. As it turns out class, shoyu means soy sauce. So there's the soy sauce and oil with the dry powder just itchin to get a ton of boilinf noodles and water poured upon them.
I couldn't resist Photoshopping this one a little but with a large amount of sepia.
So then I ate it. The broth reminded me somewhat of what ya get in the Sapporo Ichiban stuff that comes with the big dehydrated chunk of tofu that is reminiscent of a human foot - I plan on reviewing all the Sapporo Ichiban's once I'm out of Nissin to devour.
I liked the seaweed and everything else was nice, balanced and simple. I'm slapping a 4 out of five stars on this one.

Nissin Demae Ramen - Five Spices Artificial Beef Flavor

I've been enjoying trying every flavor of Nissin Demae that 99 Ranch carries lately, so onward we go with the five spices artificial beef flavor.
I liked the halloween colors of the packets! Wish it was halloween though!
I liked it! It has a nice smell and tasted great. It had the slightly sweet and slightly peppery aroma of five spices and a good beefiness to it. I currently am sneezing and have a runny nose today and my throat's been bothering me - this was a perfect choice I think. Overall, I award 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Nissin Demae Ramen - Tonkatsu Artificial Pork Flavor

Tuck in folks! Let's get down with some artifical pork flavoring!
Two flavor packets on this one - Soup base and seasoning sauce.
The seasoning sauce packet had lots of sesame seeds in it and sesame oil and another flavor I've tasted before but I can't place - rice vinegar perhaps?

Neat stuff. The broth was a murky melange of flavor and floating seeds that nestled within the sea of noodles nicely. I liked it. 3.5 out of 5 stars!

Nissin Demae Ramen - Satay Flavor

So I liked the Indomie Mi Goreng Satay flavor - this should be good.Two flavor packets! Not too shabby!
Well, long story short, it's nowhere near as good as the Mi Goreng Indomie stuff. Then again, that's kind of an apples to oranges comparison. I'm giving this a 2.5 out of 5 stars. Wasn't really all that tasty. Not going to re-up on this one.