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Mama Pork Ramen: This came with three packets! One with the soup powder, which smelled Intensely Porky, one with Chili Powder, which was chili powder, and one with what I can only describe as "thick sludgy goo" that didn't smell like anything I really wanted to eat. I put them all in ANYWAY. The result was a little grainy (probably because the chili powder did not break down in any way, because it's CHILI POWDER), but tasty. It did taste like pork. Actually, it tasted like pork that someone had violently bludgeoned with a sack of garlic, possibly in a ninja-style fashion. I -like- garlic. So this was tasty. This was actually kinda delicious, although next packet I'm just leaving out the chili powder. All it does it float around and maybe offer a mild spice hit. Slight aftertaste of onions, though, and I'm still curious about that sludgy goo. Maybe that's where the garlic and onions came from? I DO NOT KNOW. But I will eat your mystery goo, clearly.

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[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

*laughs at the image of bludgeoning pork with onions* The sludgy goo was probably an oil of some sort--though I'd have to know just what the 'soup powder' was like compared to the finished sauce.

Hmm--you'd probably have liked that garlic flavored Simply Asian bowl I got not too long ago--reminded me of some 'garlic and onion' chips I've had, except with noodles instead of potato.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Er, bludgenong pork with *garlic*, rather.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Oooooh....speaking of which, and the convenience of mail-order noodles: Check out http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/simplyasia/shop.d2w/report

I know that http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=1338589&prrfnbr=1379556 is yummy...not sure about the Honey Teriyaki one. Aha-- http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=1338589&prrfnbr=1379667 is the Yummy Garlic one. There's some hotter flavors that you might like, too, including a Szechwan Garlic flavor.

One possible trip-up...you might want to pay attention to which particular line you're looking at--there's some almost-ready-to-eat ones that have pre-cooked noodles and all, there's more standard 'ramen bowl' types that provide the container, but you have to cook the pasta yourself, and then there's the boxed stuff where you have to (horrors!) provide your own bowl as well. And then there's the stir-fry kits. :-) Some of the prices are a little high depending on the item--the aforementioned Garlic Sesame is $1.99 there, but was $1.59 at the store.

[xyzzysqrl]

Hmmm. The local store, actually, provides these. I've picked a few up in the past. They are not -bad-, but they're not fantastic either. Not mail-order fantastic, at any rate. I keep a few Emergency Food Bowls around for when I'm hungry, it's 4 AM, no one else is awake, and I need something noodly. But I don't know that I'd seek and devour.