Maggi 3 Minute Noodles Curry Flavour

Cheap from Tesco. One of the cheapest cup noodles available in the shop.Bilious yellow packaging that is not encouraging. You open the flavouring and pour it on yourself. Then pour on boiling water to the fill line and wait three minutes. The fill line is too high, resulting in a rather wishy washy flavour that needs some garlic and salt. The noodles are thin and slimy.  There is a curry flavour, and once I had added garlic and salt I enjoyed them. Not a quality product, but not offensive, not too hot, there's no bird or animal powder, and it's cheap and easy to make. I wouldn't object to having another.

5/10

Best curry flavour instant noodles

Nissin Cup Noodles Beef Flavour

72g for around £1 a pot. Easy to prepare and absolutely delicious! Veggie. Little bits of veg which quickly soften adding flavour and texture to the noods. The overall impression is like an Oxo or Marmite drink with noodles and veggie pieces. It's not sophisticated, but it's damn tasty, easy to prepare, and cleaner, fresher tasting than Pot Noodles.

Nissin are the best nood makers in the world. They really are.

Score: 8/10

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 *RamenRater   The American made ones are different to the Hong Kong made ones, which is what I had. I think the American made ones contain meat.

Nifty Nissin noodles

Beef flavoured

Lidl Newgate/Vitasia Instant Noodles Spicy Prawn Flavour

Noodles are soft flour paste - rather bland. The flavouring is warmly spicy with some savoury flavours that hint at curry more than prawn. It's OK because it's soft and edible without too much sense of artificial flavouring. Slips down easy. But is otherwise unremarkable or different from most other instant noods. It'll do for the price, and I'll be OK with getting these again, but they're not something I would go out of my way to get, nor are they something I would recommend.

Date: Sept 2015   Score: 4/10


You get a lot of noodle for your money. The flavouring is nothing special - a mild curry, but is edible enough.


Date: Jan 2016   Score:  4/10

Slight rebranding. These are quite edible. It's a warm spicy mild curry flavour. Piquant, but not scorching. Veggie. Doesn't say where they are made. Good value as you get a decent amount of noodles and enough flavouring to taste.

Date: Sept 2016   Score: 5/10

Nongshim Chicken Poulet Oolongmen

Bland floury noodles, and a murky undefined flavouring that is mainly MSG. This is an odd beast - it's not exactly ugly - you can eat it, but it's not terribly enjoyable as it's such poor quality, and so all over the place. It feels like they're really trying, but they just getting it all so wrong. This is a chicken noodle, but they use artificial chicken flour (mostly onion and MSG), so that sounds OK, but read on and there's dried fish cake added and - get this, there's textured soya lumps which look like meat and are flavoured with beef extract! WTF. You make a chicken product with artificial chicken and then put in artificial beef chunks flavoured with real beef. I'm confused as to the intention, but it's not 100% veggie for sure.

When I first had Nongshim I thought they were the dog's knees, the bee's bollocks, and everywhere in between. But I'm wondering of what I was reacting to was the hot spice rather than what was underneath it. Less spicy Nongshim products I've had have really revealed their weakness. The noodles are air-dried, so become tasteless flour paste. And the flavour combinations don't work as they are not clearly defined, and are too artificial.

This was edible, but only just, and it left me feeling dirty due to the high level of MSG. It has that effect on me - it leaves a greasy false taste in the mouth and a sense that the body has just been poisoned. It does have umami, but a very little goes a long way!

2/10

Nongshim

The best Chicken flavour noods