Mama would never let me down, right? I wasn't feeling like anything spicy this weekend, so I had to dig into my box of science subjects a little deeper. Turns out I collect a lot more flavours that are inherently or outwardly spicy than I thought. I usually really like Mama noodles, in fact as of this writing their...

It is an unspoken rule that I must purchase and try anything that I come across that brands itself as "spicy". Like I alluded to in a previous post, one of the reasons I started this blog was my contempt for instant noodles that loudly proclaim their spiciness in the packaging and fail to deliver on their promises....

Would you believe this humble blog has gotten enough eyes on it now to receive guest posts? Me neither! Today's special is brought to us by wildweasel of Golfshrine fame. I've had a long history of improvisational lunches; the kind of meals one makes out of whatever's in the fridge on a quiet weekday afternoon, plus...

I'm gonna affectionately call this bowl "The Fishing Harbour". You'll see why. Finally we get something more interesting looking out of the backlog, this is one of many oddball packets I bought a while ago to fuel my blog with. I've never heard of the brand and I've never had such wide and flat looking noodles...

It's about time we did some actual, proper Ramen Science on this blog, and break the Nongshim curse of the past few posts. Well, mostly. Remember how I said last post about reading Wikipedia about the food I'm eating while I'm eating it? Well, that has put a peculiar picture in my path. Is this normal and I'm just...

I'm not beating the Nongshim bias allegations, am I? I swear this one is because it's what I had as far as instant cups go, and I promise it might happen again, officer. I've been mulling over some particulars about the ontology surrounding my blog. While it's a slight departure from the first "Quick Bites" post, I...

It's another standard fare post! I haven't had this one before, so there'll be very little in the way of experimentation this time. Bear with me. I was worried the "stir fry" prominently displayed on the front of the package would mean that the instructions involved bringing out kitchen implements more involved than...

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I like being a purveyor of instant meals beyond just noodles. They're the most iconic, most abundant and the pioneers of an industry, sure, but variety is the seasoning packet of life. These caught my eye in the shop because at a glance I thought these were snack bowls, not instant meals. In my mind, "rice cakes"...

I picked this one up in the limited offers middle aisle at Lidl, which is how you know it's going to be either amazing and you'll never find it again, or there was a good reason why they had excess stock of it. I like it when a pack of instant noodles follows The Standard Process. This one plainly states you just...

I don't have much to say about this one, this is standard as standard gets. You're just watching me make my lunch at this point. Even though I never had it before until coming over to the UK a couple of years ago, Tom Yum quickly became one of my favourite noodle flavours. I've grown towards the Mama-brand one as a...