Urban Noodle Street Food With Satay Sauce

These are yummy. The noodles are thick, soft, quite edible but a little too bland for my taste. The sauce is a pleasant if slightly sweet and one dimensional peanut butter experience. It comes in a waxed box, with two packets inside that are opened, mixed together, then warmed in the microwave. It works quite well. Not too time-consuming or fiddly. It's in some ways quicker and easier than boiling the kettle, pouring on the water, and waiting for three minutes.

This is an easy to eat and tasty product. I would have liked a bit more texture, and a bit more character and range of flavours. Put some lime in there to zing things up, for example. But it's OK. Easy of use, and soft easy eating pleasure gives this one a decent mark.

Urban Noodles are a product devised by Petty Wood.


Score: 7


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Batchelors Super Noodles Steak Fajita

For years I've been saying that Super Noodles are crap, but either they are putting their pants on, or I'm growing up, because I'm starting to get it.

This is not crap, this is bang on tasty. Savoury in a sort of French onion stylee, with a wodge of spice that warms you up and fills your nose with mustard, but doesn't bloody sting like Asian chilli noodles do.

I like this - it has some of the oily sleaze and charm of a Pot Noodle on roller skates, being very stodgy British, yet has the bite of a Japanese poodle.

Go for it. It'll warm the heart of your cockles.


Score: 5

Super Noodles are crap