- Price: £1.20
- Manufacturer: Sichuan Baijia Food Co.
- Packet contains: broad noodles, soup base sachet, powder sachet, vegetable sachet.
My nose didn't hugely like what it encountered when I opened the sachet of pickled vegetables (which are apparently pickled mustard leaves in chilli, oil, salt, ginger, plus some E-numbers), but the stuff tasted surprisingly good, if a bit one-dimensional. The large flat noodles had a satisfying chewiness, and the veg added some bite too. The beef flavour from the powder sachet complemented the pickled flavour very well. Nevertheless I didn't feel compelled to slurp up all of the remaining soup once I'd consumed all the solids.
- Noodle rating: 4/5
- Spice level: ideal (most of the spiciness came from the pickled veg)
- Flavour rating: 4/5
- Associated substance rating (this refers to the pickled veg): 4/5
- Slurp rating: 2/5
- Would noodle again?: You betcha!
Bonus factoid: I just nuked my recommended daily allowance for salt – this packet contains a whopping 9 grams!