- Price: 80p(?)
- Manufacturer: Ottogi Co.
- Packet contains: noodles, cheesy powder sachet, generic other powder sachet, vegetable and/or fish(?) sachet.
I approach this product with all the trepidation its core concept clearly warrants. Cheese ramen?
Visual impression upon assemblage of product: utter revulsion. I firstly sample one of the floating pink cubelets, to find I am eating something like a dense-foam scouring pad having bathed (the scouring pad) too long in fishy dishwater. A faint cheesy smell accompanies the product, but the soup has no discernible flavour (though it is very mildly spicy). The noodles are standard fare – a blessing in the circumstances – but they are gone far too soon, leaving an empty and horrifyingly opaque pond. Desolation.
- Noodle rating: 3/5
- Spice level: very mild (but should cheese ramen actually be spicy at all?*)
- Flavour rating: 1/5
- Associated substance rating (cubelets): 0/5
- Slurp rating: N/A (I could not bring myself to slurp)
- Would noodle again?: Lord, have mercy
Bonus factoid: Ottogi Co. is the sole condiment provider to McDonald's in Korea. [Citation needed, but true according to Wikipedia.]
* Positivists here reject my question as ill-formed, cheese ramen clearly being a specious construct thrust upon us by Ottogi Co. or whatever nefarious agency lies therebehind.