Sainsbury's Curry Flavour Instant Noodles (packet)

Lidl Curry V Sainsbury's Curry

After a head to head with Lidl I have moved these back up to 5.

Date: March 2017   Score:  5

15p for 85g. Veggie. Made in the UK. We had these side by side with Curry Flavour Super Noodles. The Super Noodles tasted WAY better. These Sainsbury noodles were edible, but lacked real flavour or interest. For the price they were OK, and are perfectly edible, but when compared with the Super Noodles, you could really see the difference.

Date:  July 2016    Score: 3

Works for me. Curry is warm rather than hot. Good firm flavoursome noodles. An everyday, low cost and tasty nood. Made in China.

Date:  Jan 2014   Score: 5

Best curry flavour noods

Sainsbury's own brand noodles

Sainsbury's Vegetable Flavour Instant Noodles (packet)

Tasty and edible. This is the a plain and simple and effective nood. Vegetable isn't the most interesting of flavours, but it's OK. Cheap and cheerful. Made in China with deep fried noodles. It works.

Sainsbury's own brand noodles

The Noodle Narratives

A book on the history and development of noods.

ucpress.edu The Noodle Narratives


Reviews

Blog: The Salt

Theramenrater.com

Page99test.blogspot

About Amherst magazine

Materialworldblog


BBC interview

BBC.co.uk

Chinese Instant Noodle makers

World Instant Noodles Association
Chinese members

• COFCO Cereal Way Foods Limited
• Guang Dong Shunde Nissin Foods Co., Ltd.
• Hongfa Group (China) Co., Ltd.
• Huaibei Shunfa Food Limited Company
• Jiaozuo Instant Noodles Factory
• Jinfeng Group
• President Enterprises (China) Investment Co., LTD.
• Shanghai Nissin Foods Co., Ltd.
• SiMeiTe Food Co., Ltd.
• Star King (China) Food Group Limited
• Xinxiang Ya Telan food Co., Ltd.
• Zhengzhou GOFAR food Co., Ltd.
• Zhuhai Golden Coast Winner Food Products Ltd.

Chinese companies associated with instant noodles

http://www.made-in-china.com/products-search/hot-china-products/Instant_Noodle.html

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/chinese-instant-noodles.html


The market in three charts

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-instant-noodle-market-in-charts-2013-10


The Ramen Rater's best and worse Chinese noods list attract media attention

http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2013/07/worlds-worst-ramen-are-chinese/

http://www.china.org.cn/top10/2013-05/20/content_28877880.htm

http://beijingcream.com/2013/07/china-has-the-worlds-worst-instant-noodles

Sainsbury's Chicken Flavour Instant Noodles (packet)

Made in China from deep fried noodles, so the noodles are good. But the flavouring powder contains neither MSG nor chicken, so tastes only of onion. Needs more salt. Needs more oomph.  This has the worse of both worlds. You can eat it, but you'll be left feeling dirty yet unsatisfied.

Score: 5

On a head to head between Sainsbury's basic and Sainsbury's regular chicken flavour instant noods, there really wasn't a lot in it, but the regular had slightly more flavour.

The best Chicken flavour instant noodles

Sainsbury's own brand noodles

Batchelors Super Noodles Chow Mein

 

Crap.

Score: 1

Super Noodles are crap

Best instant noodle chow mein

Sainsbury's Basics Chicken Flavour Noodles (pot)

Warm and comfy. And there's a definite soft boiled chicken flavour (probably due to the powdered chicken). Made in the UK - either in Wales in the Pot Noodle mines, or in Yorkshire, in the Symington Noodle Factory.

Quick and easy to make. The noodles are perhaps a little too soft and flavourless, and there's not a lot of excitement about flour starch and boiled chicken powder, but it's cheap and cheerful, and won't raise any objections. Well, apart from that MSG would be preferable to powdered chicken.

Score: 4




In this Sept 2013 review of the packet version, it is clear that the chicken powder is vegetarian.
DooYoo reviews.
Veggie review.
Ciao! reviews

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Sainsbury's own brand noodles

Itsu Noodle[pot] Thai Original Flavour

For fucks sake!

The most epic fail in the history of instant noods!

The pot is ugly. The descriptions are girly - "heavenly broth" and "rainbow vegetables". It's fucking expensive. It has a pink spoon. Pink! It's fucking awkward to eat. And it tastes so shit it's bloody inedible.

Follow the instructions and you get hot water with bits in it which tastes like, well, hot water with bits in it. Dried vegetables are NOT the tastiest things on this planet, even when sourced from Italy (as if being grown in Italy makes any difference to dried veg), so having huge bits of them is a BAD IDEA. The watery soup is a bit like what you'd expect to get if you poured boiling water onto a tube of tomato purée, and then added the bits from the bottom of the bowl after the washing up has been done, and then sprinkled lemongrass and various dried bits that get stuck in your teeth. The noodles suck arse. Noodles are just flour paste. Having big noodles that don't soak up the flavour of the soup means you just get noodles that tastes like flour paste. The only way to get anywhere near to enjoying this is to eat the flavouring and the noodles together, as in a regular nood meal. Given the thickness of the noodles, and the wateriness of the soup, that's a real tricky task.

The company description. "even designing a special pink spork to help you slurp". Wankers.

This fails on just about every possible aspect of noods. No redeeming factor at all.

Go on, fork out the money, and kid yourself you're eating something more sophisticated than your average nood. You'll make the Itsu team very rich, and they'll laugh all the way to the bank.

Fucking terrible. Don't be conned,. Or, yes, go on, be conned. It's your life - your money. Go knock yourself out.

This is shit.

Other reviews:

Amazon - Everyone seems to agree. This is shit.

Freetique blog - Another one that hates it.

Studentmunch - Another one that hates it.

Foodifancy.com - yet another one that hates it.

I've not yet read a review that is even neutral. There is widespread contempt for this over-priced idiotic substance.

Score: 1

Amino Pomidorowa (Tomato)

Man I love Pot Noodle, but this Polish tomato nood beats the Pot Noodle Beef &Tomato hands down. No contest. Amino Pomidorowa rubs the Welsh bastard's face in the sheep poo.

This is a feelthy little nood. Good dirty noodles, and lots of salty tomato flavour. If you're going to do a tomato nood - this is the way to do it. Not sickly sweet like kid's ketchup, but savoury and morish and  bright and exciting. This is like plugging your mouth into the mains, and getting those copper wires right into your teeth. it wakes up your mouth, and gives it a right jolt. This is the breakfast of real men. The Polish are not wimps.

Amino is a brand owned by the Polish branch of Unilever.

Score: 7/10

Pot Noodle Beef &Tomato

Epic fail. 

Watery sweet cheap tomato ketchup taste. No filth. No flavour. Very disappointing. The noodles were clean and bland. There's really nothing good to say about this.

Except that it can be consumed, if you want to. It's not offensive. Just a waste of time.


Move along now; nothing to see here.

Score: 2/10

Other reviews:

The Ramen Rater

Need 4 Noodles

Eat this instead:

Amino Pomidorowa

Beef flavoured

 

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Pot Noodle V Asda Noodle Snack: Beef & Tomato

Vifon Tom Yum Krewetkowa Tajska

Tom Yum flavour instant noodle soup (hot). There are two sachets inside - one is the soup base, the other is the spice. The spice is warming rather than hot. Creates a nice smudgy dish. Small, soft noodles - rather inclining to vermicelli. Tom Yum is a thin spicy soup that originated in Thailand, and has spread through neighbouring Asian countries.

Score: 6

Vifon Instant Noodles

Most yummy Tom Yum

Pot Noodle Original Curry

A yellowy noodle/pasta with very mild curry flavour and some bits of dehydrated vegetables to enliven proceedings. It's safe and clean and edible. It's a Pot Noodle.

Sunshine on a rainy day.

Date: Jan 2014. Score: 5


On offer at 50p, which is about the right price. I like Pot Noodle, but they really are not worth £1, which is generally twice as much as everyone else. On its own this is rather tasteless, but with some salt it's OK. Edible without being remarkable. Fairly standard mild chip shop curry sauce, and some rehydrated veg. OK. Warm, but not too spicy.

Date: Oct 2016   Score: 4


  

This is the king of all slags. The original curry, and the embodiment of not just Pot Noodle but if all British Noida. Sticky, dirty, and compelling. Love it!

Date: Dec 2021. Score: 8

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Best curry flavour instant noodles