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