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Koka Chicken FlavourDate: Aug 2013 Score: 6 |
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Date: April 2024 Score: 7 ↑ |
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This may be a revamped version of the Naked Malaysian Style Curry. Anyway, it's worse than the Malaysian - rice does not work as nood ingredient. The rice is chewy and worthy and dull. The curry sauce is odd - rather off putting at first, and though we got used to it after a while it never really rose to pleasant.
Epic fail.
Score: 2
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On the whole we were not impressed with these. Edible and worthy, yes, but not delicious or exciting. And rather dry - needing to add more water than suggested in order to make it edible.
Date: Jan 2023 Score: 5
Ooh nice. Soft, creamy, buttery noodles with a spicy sauce. A little salty at first, but the palate soon adjusts. I like these noods. I like them a lot. Bought from B&M Bargains.
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Meeran is a UK wholesalers, based in Dagenham. They were founded in 2018 as Argana Stars, and have used the Meeran name since that year.
Date: Jan 2023. Score: 7
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Soft yet firm noodles, but a somewhat limp beef flavouring. Credit for it not just being veggie beef flavouring, but that it says so clearly on the pack.
While not being strongly flavoured, this is still an enjoyable nood. It's in the Asian style, so fairly wet, rather than stodgy like British noods. I like both styles - it's nice to have the variety. This way tends to feel cleaner and more nourishing. But sometimes I just want a filthy nood!
Anyway. Nice. Cheap and tasty enough. I'd be happy to have this again (and again!).
Date: April 2022 Score: 6
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Pot Noodle in a packet - it has "lost the pot". This is Pot Noodle catching up some ground lost to Super Noodles, though stepping backwards in terms of saving the planet as the pots are recyclable, while the packs are not. Anyway, these are better value, but are more fiddly to prepare.
The noodles are bland. The powder is not fully adequate for the amount of noodles so it all ends up tasting watery and like, well, Super Noodles. If you like Super Noodles you'll like these, but why buy these when you can stick with Super Noodles. If you like Pot Noodles you probably won't like this. It doesn't taste like proper Pot Noodles, the king of the slags.
Date: Dec 2021 Score: 3
The Pot Noodle company came up with a revolutionary idea - add flavour to the Lost The Pot packs. It's a cool advertising campaign:
Let's see... Lots of firm noodles with a mild false chicken flavour. I added tomatoes and spring onions to make it nicer. Despite the advertising claim, there's still not a lot of flavour or character.
This is not like Pot Noodles. Though it may be interesting to do a side by side.
Date: Jan 2023 Score: 4
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I put in about two thirds of the water they suggest, and that created a pleasant chip shop-curry flavoured sauce. I don't like the thin short noodles. But the sauce was good - close to Pot Noodle style curry sauce. I'd be happy to eat this again. I suspect this is pretty much the same as the Spicy Curry Flavour, though I haven't checked the ingredients. Perhaps different noodles.
Date: Nov 2021 Score: 7
After yesterdays Newgate Chow Mein disaster I wasn't expecting to like this Lidl noods pot, but blow me it's yummy. I did put considerably less water in it than suggested, and left it a bit longer to stew, so the sauce was thicker, and the noodles softer. The noodles were still a little bland for my taste, and I don't like that they are short and thin like short Vermicelli. But the sauce worked for me - it was sweet and spicy with a firm tomato flavour. Nice one. I'd be happy to have this again.
Date: Nov 2021 Score: 7
Bland noodles, chopped short. An onion and marmite water sauce. Needed salt to bring out the flavour. I ate it, but there was little joy in the experience, and I suspect little nutrition. Best bit was the tiny pieces of veg.
Date: Nov 2021. Score: 3
This is strongly flavoured, but not attractive. It's rather too strongly flavoured, so we put in more water to make it palatable. The taste is soy sauce and onion with some heat, which is a rather uninteresting, though some interest and variation is supplied by the basil.
Not a noods we enjoyed.
Date: April 2021. Score: 3
I'm not really a fan of rice noodles - I find them a bit slimy, tough, and bland. But these have worked for me. The sauce is very tasty with a yummy balance between sweet and spicy. I enjoyed them, though I might hesitate to buy them again as I do prefer regular noodles. There is a distinct Asian flavour about this.
Date: April 2021. Score: 5
Produced for Tesco by Wicked Kitchen. This is a modern pot noodle which is more like a vegan meal than either the stodgy British slag noods or the watery yet exotic and spicy Asian noods. There is a mix of both - there is stodge and hot spice. I like it, but it has problems. It is very dry. I put in much more water than recommended, and kept on adding water as I was eating because it soaks up moisture so quickly. It's also quite chilli hot but lacking in flavour so I had to add a lot of salt, and keep adding it until at last the flavours came through. I think the mix of kidney beans, potato and pasta is just too much stodge without variety. I enjoyed this, but I wouldn't rush to buy another.
Date: April 2021. Score: 5
Stodgy British noods. Lots of cornflower. Not much flavour. This is a typical cheap nood. Usually they are bargain supermarket brands. You can do better than this peeps. Leave this on the shelf and get yourself a Pot Noodle. It's dirty and you love it.
Date: Dec 2020 Score: 3 1/2
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This is a rather soggy nood. In fact, it isn't a real nood - it uses rice instead of noodles. I was conned! Bought quick and cheap in Lidl. I didn't pay attention. Rice doesn't work. It's worse than the rice noodles. I followed the instructions and got cold soggy rice. The flavourings are nice. But if the main ingredient is an epic fail, then the flavourings are not going to save it. And they didn't. Nice flavourings, shame about the rice. This is not a Rice Crispies blog, nor even Rice Soggies blog, this is a Noodles blog. Bring on the noodles, and bring them right here!
Date: Dec 2020 Score: 4
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Everything about this looks cheap and nasty. In colour and appearance it's an attempt to cash in on the awesome Pot Noodle brand, but lacks the humour, the professionalism, and the slaggish class of Pot Noodle. The lid is thin and tore as I was trying to open it. You look inside at this miserable looking heap of dried noods with barely any powder. Just this small, insignificant dried lump of yellow huddled in a corner of the white cup. And where's the mango sauce? Well, that was hidden inside the noods. I poured on the water and stirred before I found it. And it was a joyless unmarked and uncolour plastic sachet. No cost saving unturned. My hopes were not up.
Then I started eating. I'd had these nods before, and have reviewed them twice before under slightly different names: Vitasia Speedy Noodle Spicy Curry. And I remembered that they are way tastier than you expect them to be. It just works. Not too spicy. Not too sweet. A good balance. And they have that comfortable gooey sticky mouthfeel that is so typical of the best British noods. Asian style noods are either watery or dry. British noods are thick, moist, comforting.
I like these noods. To be honest I'm not a huge fan of Lidl. I think their products can be good, but they can also be bland or overly sweet - simply going for the cheapest, easiest, most commercial product that is going to appeal to most people. They head downwards for the lowest common denominator. They are not looking to make distinctive, interesting, challenging, exciting food products. They just want products that are going to appeal to the most people. If what you want is the bland, slightly sweet, everyday familiarity, and are not interesting in trying something unusual, unique, interesting, with complex and fascinating flavours, then Lidl is your bag. And just sometimes, as with these noods, the familiar and the comforting is just what I want.
Yes. This hits the spot.
Date: Sept 2020 Score: 8
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