Golden Wonder The Nation's Pasta & Sauce Chicken & Mushroom Flavour

This requires a lot of cooking. Measure out milk, water and butter, and then boil, stir, simmer, time it, and stir, etc. It's not an instant meal. As it's British there's a lot of sticky floury sauce. Us Brits seems to like that. We love our stodge. Asian instant noodles are not stodgy. That's the main difference really.

This has no powdered chicken - the flavour comes from MSG. I like it. I like a bit of sticky stodge. I used a fair amount of butter so there's a nice buttery flavour.

So the flavour is nice, but there's just a little too much effort in making it.


Score: 4

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The best Chicken flavour instant noodles

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A-One Ga Quay (Instant Noodles Bowl) Chicken Flavor

These are very tasty. Artificial chicken flavour, so no chickens were shredded, yet a good tasty chicken flavour. The veggie pieces work, This is a fresh tasting and sumptuous lunch. There is chilli, and while not hot, it's enough to make me prickle and sweat. I love this, and if it wasn't for the chilli, I'd be buying more of these. Almost perfect!

Score: 9

A-One

The best Chicken flavour instant noodles

A-One

A-One is brand owned by the Vietnam company Saigon Ve Wong Ltd.

A-One Ga Quay (Instant Noodles Bowl) Chicken Flavor

 Score: 9

A-One Instant Noodles Shrimp Flavor

Score: 7

A-One Pho Bo Beef Flavour Rice Noodles

 Score: 7

A-One Pho Tom Cua Instant Rice Noodles Shrimp & Crab Flavor

 Score: 3

A-One Instant Rice Noodles Chicken Flavor

 Score: 2

Pop Bihun Spesial Rasa Soto Ayam

Another Pop Bihun rice noodle. I cooked the noodles this time, following the instructions, and  used a little less water. Cooking the noodles releases a little too much starch for my taste. And using less water increases the impact of the flavour, which isn't necessarily a good thing. The initial taste is pleasant with sharp acidic peaks, hinting at lime, balanced with sweet and salty. Then it becomes a little too heavy and powdery and chemical. At that point I azdded more water to soften the impact, and make the experience more pleasurable. I did enjoy this, though on the whole felt it lacked backbone. I didn't use the chilli powder.

Contains "chicken flavour" which usually means it's not chicken.

The Pop brand is owned by Indofood, which is the largest noods company in Indonesia, with a 72% market share. Indofood also make the Indomie brand.


Score: 6/10

Pop Bihun Spesial Goreng Spesial

Rice noodles are my least favourite as they usually taste a bit plastic and empty. But these had an acceptable texture, and the sauce was very pleasant. Good savoury notes. The chilli sauce was piquant, but not overpowering. Onion and soy flavours, a good mix of sweet and salty. Nice. If the noodles had been wheat I would have loved this.

Contains artificial chicken flavouring, and no fish, so it's veggie.

The Pop brand is owned by Indofood, and is the largest noods company in Indonesia, with a 72% market share. Indofood also make the Indomie brand.

Date: June 2015  Score: 6/10

This is a yummy product. I found this at the bottom of my noodles cupboard, so it is seriously out of date, but still tasty. I didn't use the chilli, and am quite happy without it. Lots of savoury flavour, mostly onion, though also some peanut, which I have noted in other Indomie goreng noodles.

Veggie ingredients

Date: Feb 2017   Score: 5

Indomie noods

Best instant noodle chow mein

Nissin Teppan Yakisoba

I like these. Made the standard way, they create a decent meal. Good noodles - chewy and flavoursome. If boiled as suggested, they end up a soggy tasteless mush. The sauce is savoury without being too false tasting. Say sauce and a bit of onion, and some interesting zest. No animal ingredients. My only complaint is that there is a little too much chilli for my comfort. I can eat it, and it doesn't burn too much, but I do end up sweating, and my mouth is feeling a little too alive.

Though I enjoyed it, it's not one I will be rushing to buy again because of the chilli level.

Score: 7/10

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