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Ramen Reviews ::



This is another old one that I had originally placed on my instagram story. (Hence the words on the picture)

There is tons of instant ramen here, an entire aisle of it at any grocery store. There's a lot to pick from and thus I can often feel a little overwhelmed and just stick to what I'm familiar with instead of braving the unknown. Furthermore, lots of these packets are just noodles and broth (or sauce) but the images on the packaging have vegetables and meat. A bunch of goodies.

Basically, you can just buy these and just eat the noodles. However, what I prefer to do is deck them out. Go to the vegetable area and grab a bunch of veggies to pad out the noodles. You end up with a much better dish overall and (depending on how many veggies you add) you might be able to stretch the noodles into two meals instead of one!

Now I no longer have this wrapper so I can't properly give you a lot of information besides the image you see above. It was a tonkatsu ramen, aka, a pork ramen with a rich and creamy broth.

Nutritional information: 323 cal, 7g of fat, 2.3g of Calcium, 56.7g of carbohydrates.

Preparation: Boil the noodles separately from the packets of sauce (which comes as a sauce and not a powder). Add the noddles and some of the hot water to make a soup. I also stirfried some veggies to go with it (cabbage, carrots and oyster mushrooms). I fried up some slices of ham (technically bacon) and also added a soft boiled egg.

You can barely see the noodles beneath all the goodies I added.
With all this I was able to make two bowls of this dish. I did not cook all the noodles (I cut the noodles in half when they were dry...because who wants soggy noodles right?) and also made sure to use half of the sauces.

It was creamy and rich. A little salty. The veggies added a great crunch and the egg was fantastic in the broth despite it falling apart a little (I need to work on my egg game). Overall, a solid 4/5.

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