Vifon are a brand of noods owned by the Polish/Vietnamese company
Tan-Viet, which was founded by Ngoc Tu Tao in 1990. The headquarters are in Gdańsk, while the nood factory is in Vietnam.
Vifon website.
The main line is a range of fairly average instant noodles; these all have Polish names. Decent enough, cheap, and available at your nearest Polish corner shop. The company have recently introduced a more interesting range, under the brand name Vifon Hoang Gia. The names are in Vietnamese, though with (inaccurate and interesting) English translation. These are bigger, more expensive, and are fairly adventurous - moving away from the standard chicken or chicken flavours. My first experience hasn't been positive, as there is way too much meat for me, but I am intrigued enough to want to try the rest of the range.
This is a classic nood. Greasy, savoury, good chilli nip, vague flavour, and firm noodles.
This is damn good stuff. Nicely warm and spicy - I have the sweats. Damn good firm and flavoursome noodles. This works for me. Damn good.
A tasty little snack. Nothing here that will make you exclaim with delight, but for a cheap nood, this is damn good.
This is a filthy pig - so dirty it hasn't even wiped its trotters. Imagine all the grease at the bottom of the fryer in a deep fried chicken house. Turn that grease into powder and put it into a Vifon chicken flavoured nood.
A regular dirty cow this one. Good greasy noodles with a hot and greasy chicken flavoured curry. Good burn in the mouth. Solid all round.
The spice is warming rather than hot. Creates a nice smudgy dish. Small, soft noodles - rather inclining to vermicelli.
Greasy, watery, and with a savoury artificial meat flavour. Bleurgh, really. And the noodles didn't do much for me - rather like eating sewing cotton.
