Asian Instant Noodle Soup Worship Page

This page is made to praise one of the most delightful inventions of the late 21. century: Asian Instant Noodle Soups. Cheap, filling and quickly made, these soups are the best friends of the modern household.

Soup Bestiarium

Spicyness:
  1. spiced, eatable for most people
  2. spicy, but eatable for at least some Europeans
  3. hot, for practised eaters only
  4. too hot :-)

Vegetarian?:
My interpretation of the ingredients

Price:
Price in Deutschmarks, currently about 1$=1.70DM

Results in ml:
The amount of water to add

Taste:
The subjective taste measured by my sensor phalanx.

Yum Yum Shrimp Flavor


Spicyness: 3
Vegetarian?: contains fish, but probably no meat
Price: 0.50 DM
Results in ml: 320
Manufacturer: Wan Thai Foods Industry, Thailand
Taste: IMO, a very tasteful soup. Although the name deals with shrimps, at least I cannot detect fishy components. This soup seems rather sour to me (although some of my friends deny this..).

Shin Ramyun


Spicyness: 3
Vegetarian?: probably yes
Price: 1.50 DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: Nong Shim, Korea
Taste: A hot soup with thick noodles. The taste contains some vegetable traces, but cannot determined very well (by me), let's say it's a very red soup :-)

Asia Nudel Snack "Typ Ayam-Huhn"


Spicyness: 0
Vegetarian?: no
Price: 1.0 DM
Results in ml: 300
Manufacturer: Nestle Malaysia
Taste: These Maggi-type soups are offered as asian specialities in most of the german supermarkets. They are offered in some varieties, we tested the "chicken-type". The taste is at the start very chicken-like (which is no wonder as Maggi is known as a manufacturer of instant soups). The noodles (the package says "break them once" (which only a cretin will do)) are very thin, but tasty. The resulting soup is very mild and ressembles more to a conventional european instant soup. Although produced in Asia, I do not find this soup tasting exotic.


Spicyness: 3
Vegetarian?: contains fish, but probably no meat
Price: 2.0 DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: Nong Shim, Korea
Taste: One of the most luxurious AINS. Very hot, this soup contains real sea fruit particles! Biologists can recognize small cuttlefish arms and other interesting material in the dried part of the soup. The taste is therefore rather fishy, the noodles are of the thick type. The noodle package is of the round (wheel) form.

ANSUNGTANGMYUN


Spicyness: 2
Vegetarian?: probably yes
Price: 1.0 DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: Nong Shim, Korea
Taste: Hot, a certain vegetable taste can be detected. Nothing special, but a solid every day soup. This soup is suited for vegetarians (as long as they can justify dead carrots, of course).

Nissin Ramen Chili Hoisin


Spicyness: 2-3
Vegetarian?: no
Price: 1.10 DM
Results in ml: 500
Manufacturer: Nissin Food, Japan
Taste: A tasty soup with a delicate sesame oil taste and an astonishing hot aftertaste.

Instant Bami Gorneg


Spicyness: 1
Vegetarian?: probably yes
Price: ? DM
Results in ml: ca. 200
Manufacturer: PT. Sanmaru Food Manufacturing, Indonesia
Taste: This is not a instant soup, but an instant fried noodle meal! You have to cook the noodle, but afterwards, you have them out of the water and mix them with the oil and some seasonings. Nevertheless, it tastes great!

see package :-)


Spicyness: 2
Vegetarian?: ?
Price: 1.30 DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: Samyang Foods, Korea
Taste: Very tasty! Ressembles to fried chicken, but has also a vegetable flavor.

Ochingie Tchampong


Spicyness: 2
Vegetarian?: contains fish, but no meat
Price: 1.30 DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: Nong Shim, Korea
Taste: Fried fish. Rather good and not that hot. The contained piece of seaweed is funny.

see package :-)


Spicyness: 3
Vegetarian?: ?
Price: ? DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: ?
Taste: Hot, meat taste. Not bad, but nothing special.

Doll Sesame Oil Flavour


Spicyness: 0
Vegetarian?: no
Price: 0.90 DM
Results in ml: 500
Manufacturer: Winner Food products, Hong Kong
Taste: Very tasty and mild. One of the classic sesame oil soups (contains even sesame seed!).

Garag U-Dong


Spicyness: 2-3
Vegetarian?: contains fish, but no meat
Price: 1.20 DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: ?
Taste: Interesting taste which ressembles to tuna or smoked meat.

Jinramyun Hot


Spicyness: 2
Vegetarian?: probably yes
Price: ? DM
Results in ml: 550
Manufacturer: Haitai, Korea
Taste: Vegetable taste, very good.

Neoguri (U-Dong)


Spicyness: 3
Vegetarian?: no
Price: 1.20 DM
Results in ml: 500
Manufacturer: Nong Shim, Korea
Taste: Good. Usual large soup with a slightly hotter taste.

Chajang Myun


Spicyness: 0
Vegetarian?: probably yes
Price: 1.30 DM
Results in ml: 500
Manufacturer: Nong Shim, Korea
Taste: Also an instant fried noodle meal, no soup. The taste is IMO oily, tasteless and disgusting.


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Asian Instant Noodle Soup FAQ

Where can I buy AINS?
Every asian shop normally offers a wide variety of AINS, so this should be no problem.

How shall I cook my AINS?
Rather easy. There are always two ways: the one described on the package (which is sometimes not readible until you are an expert in asian languages), and mine: cook water until it boils, add everything to the water (soup base, gimmicks and finally the noodles) and boil alltogether until the noodles are cooked at your liking. This takes, dependent of the thickness of the noodles, 3-5 minutes. If you cook them to short, it is no problem since the noodles will become soft afterwards (asuming you cook them not that short :-). If you cook them to long, you get noodle paste instead of separate noodles (but you can be sure that everything is dead which can be killed by boiling water :-)

How to eat a AINS?
The problem is that the noodles are long. And if I say long, i mean long. Lamers break them into several parts, but the real AINS gourmet will always use chopsticks to eat the noodles and a small bowl and his mouth to drink the soup.

What do AINS cost?
In the shops I know, the prices for a AINS range from DM 0.50 ($0.30) to DM 2.0 ($1.3).

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Last change: 20.7.1997 by Fritz Hohl