Shin Ramyun/Cup ftw, also MAMA Tom Yum++

I get noodles from my local ethnian food market

I have them if I can't be arsed cooking, and normally throw in some veg and a bit of pak choi if I have some - it's normally the nong shim ones I get. There's one which is called something like tokyo noodle sounp - has lots of seaweed flakes in it. Tasty stuff.

I should really start keeping in some baby octopus to go in them.

I love noodles, all noodles.

Noodles with pesto sauce :3

Mmm, noodles. Since I'm a freak, it's bean noodles for me. Not available with as many pre-packaged flavours, but still nice&noodly. Can't get them to replicate childhood chow mein memories, but for everything else, they do the job, and after a couple of noodle-free decades, it's good to be slurping again.

>>3044

Aaaah. I've never been as keen on those, they have a kind of 'nutty' flavour to them which irritates me. Though, MAMA are my favourite brand ;D.

I have been turned off noodles by having a succession of disgusting homemade ones. Never buying microwave noodles myself, that's for sure.

>>3085
Microwave? Egad! Protip: Don't follow instructions on UK brand instant noodles.

The majority of noodles here generally contain a soup base, some oil (palm, sunflower, etc) and sometimes an additional sachet with chilli flakes.

Bring a couple of hundred ml of water to the boil in a pot (enough to half-cover the noodle block); boil the noodles for a few minutes until soft and most of the water is gone; Reduce the heat (or take the pot off the heat), add soup base while there's still enough water to mix into it, stir well, add oil, serve.

,,!,, Delia Smith.

>>3086
Alternatively add more water for a noodle soup, just make sure there is enough seasoning - MAMA do a Cream of Tom Yum version of the Tom Yum Noodles which makes a delicious spicy noodle soup. I generally buy from a local warehouse or order from Wing Yip online.

>>3087
<3 . I'd been looking for a cheapish online store which sells noodles.

>>3088

Great. I tried another company once (Thai owned), and they weren't very good. Wing Yip are generally excellent and with my first large-ish order I received a couple of bowls, saucers and decent chopsticks. I can't remember how much I spent though.

Where are you buying these fancy, imported noodles from?.

For my money the best instant ramen are the Japanese ones. Yes, yes, "weaboo" etc - I guarantee you that any of you would agree after a bowl of them. They have decent flavour (usually a minimum of three sachets of bits and bobs) and they actually taste distinct from one another, instead of the usual "MSG + beef/chicken stock" approach that most Chinese and Korean ramen take.

I first came into contact with them through a Japanese friend who'd brought them over with her, but I have since ordered a few times from Mount-Fuji when I was feeling flush; these are pricey, especially compared to the prices you can find for Chinese ramen, but every now and then as a treat I reckon it's worth it. I don't eat cheap ramen these days anyway, I find the amount of MSG fucking toxic.

>>3090
Chinese supermarkets, Interwebs (I use wingyipstore.co.uk, who also have huge warehouses around the country). Start at about £0.20-£0.30 for the cheap (but delicious) ones.

>>3125
Yum. I do love the Japanese brands and they have a more natural taste than the MSG-drenched Chinese brands as you mentioned.

I also enjoy miso/wakame soups.

>>3125
"Best" is relative here. Original Japanese Nissin generally are the shit, I agree, but their "Top Ramen" range (which seems to be aimed at the european markets) is ... mediocre. Not bad at all, just not great either. I had a couple of random cup (well, "flying saucer", really) noodle thingies when I was in Japan which were gorgeous (weaboo etc... yadda yadda), but sod knows what they were. I don't read kanji/hiragana/katakana ('cept for パンツ... yes, I am that shallow).

Anyway, in order of preference:
1) Nissin Demae
2) YumYum

I ordered some mama from Wingyip, let's see how it goes.

>>3127
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The noodles have landed.

>>3157
Oooh, quite quick considering the current month. I've ran out, so of course I'm rather jealous of your package.

>>3158
Surprised me as well. Definitely going into my bookmarks, them.

>>3127
Yes, the Nissin ones are the best, another vote from me.

I live in the Chinatown district in Liverpool, anyway theres this warehouse turned supermarket, bags or noodles, millions of kinds, reaching far across the room. Its heaven.

If you're in the market for noodly goodness, one of my regulars just mailed me a 10% off thingy.
http://www.thai-food-online.co.uk
Their fresh stuff is great, but note that they only get a shipment a week, so it'll take a while to get to you, depending on when you order. Packaged stuff turned up next day. Lots'o'noodles, naturally, including a better-than-usual but still small selection of bean ones for us freaks. If only I could find a source of the flavouring packets, without them being attached to blocks of inedible noodles. Mind you, 25 pence isn't huge sacrifice, for research purposes, and I'm sure I can find a home for the noodles. Hmm...

Smallprint follows:
We are offering you a 10% discount off ALL our products this weekend!
Simply type in CHRISTMAS in the coupon name box and you will get your discount.

* Discount will only apply if you place an order this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday (10th - 15th December). After this date, it will no longer work.

>>3177
Ooh thanks!

I used them once before, I think 4 items weren't available and it took ages to arrive but I did order some fresh Thai Holy Basil, so... ;).

My mother "in law" was in town and we asked her to get some noodles like the last time. She asked which she should get, we said "Mama, or anything - just a selection"... She came back with a bag full of Indomie noodles; I soon realised she picked that brand because they were the only ones with English on them...

"If a job needs done well, do it yourself."

n.B. Some of the Indomie noodles aren't /too/ bad - and luckily I have a large jar of chilli and tom yum paste. The packet on the pic has 4 sachets: Soup base, chilli flakes, oil+onions and thick soy sauce so isn't terrible.

Just for completeness: how do you prepare your noodles? Boil the noodles separately? Put the lot in a bowl and just add hot water? Boil the lot in a pot? Microwave (shudder)?

>>3199
Generally I boil the noodles in a pot until there isn't much/any water left (Unless it's a noodle soup) then add the oil and flavourings at the end.

Put the contents of the sachets into a bowl, add a little bit of water and stir. Boil the noodles for a couple of minutes, strain, and add.

>>3205
This, except I usually add a sliced mushroom or two, finely diced onion and the occasional bit of shredded lettuce while boiling the noddles.

What do you think of super noodles then? What brands do you buy and where?

>>3207

Super Noodles are utter shite. Rip off too.

>>3208

Supernoodles taste nice to me. I eat all the brands you lot are talking about too, but I see no real difference between them apart from some false sense of authenticity about the Japanese ones.

I find it hard to believe that it is possible to be a snob about instant noodles, but I'm witnessing it.

>>3209
SuperNoodles are nice, infact they're brilliant.
But they start to look a bit shit when you can buy packets of similar noodles for 9p at the local shop.

>>3209
Nought wrong with supernoodles. I do get snobby about the 7p noodles in Morrison's, though: the stock in them is fine, but the noodles themselves just taste of cardboard. The bad kind of cardboard.

>>3210

They are expensive, I can't argue with that. However, 85p is still not, in the grand scheme of things, expensive.

For 85p (or £1.25 at my local shop), I'd at least expect them to include oil or something else other than a sachet of generic soup base with a couple of added flavourings depending on the packet.

Morrisons, Tesco and ASDA's budget noodles can be made to taste really nice without spending too much. The noodle cakes/blocks they use are from a half-decent brand (whose name escapes me now). Soy sauce, Sesame oil, chilli oil, chilli flakes, tom yum paste, bits of stock cubes and meat etc are just a couple of cheap ingredients you could add to turn a bland snack into a nice-ish meal :P.

>>3218

If I wanted to put any effort at all into it, I would grab my chilli flakes, home made chicken stock and various pantry spices and boil up some plain dried or fresh noodles, instead of using some flavouring in a packet instant noodle from Asda.

If I want something that I don't have to put any effort into, I will use the tastiest instant noodles about - the super ones, instead of buying sub-par ones and either throwing the flavouring away or trying to improve upon it - that's just daft and defeats the point.

>>3208
I'm with this man. Shit flavour and shit price.

Asda's 8p smart price noodles, imported from China, which claim to have 'chicken seasoning' clearly illustrate a four-legged creature which I assume is a dog on the sachet of said vile seasoning.

I want some proper, hearty noodles. I was eating a pot noodle and thought "What the fuck is this? There's nothing in it". Suggestions, lads?

>>3238
Shin Cup if you like Spicy, but not like Pot Noodle's spicy range which lack taste and a nice texture.

Also available in packet form as Shin Ramyun. The 辛 means 'spicy'.

>>3239
Yes, the shin-cup ones are very good, I agree.

Anything with Kimchi in the title is usually pretty tasty.

So Super Noodles are either the best or the worst according to /nom/...?

People who've never tried Asian instant noodles probably think Super Noodles are as good as it gets.

>>3295

They are, and I've never had AIDs-an noodles.

As much as I hate Super Noodles, Indomie's export version of their noodles are vile. The noodle cake itself has the smell, taste and nearly the texture of Plasticine.

>>3289
My reply is the same as >>3295, though Pot Noodles do deserve to be recognised as being decent, even though they're all /very/ similar regardless of the flavour stated.

Pot Noddles used to be ok (a decade ago they were actually tasty) but have gradually health-ified themselves into something disgusting. The only one I can go near these days is the Bombay Badboy, and it's more chore than treat.

>>3316
It's a shame about Pot Noodles, as I used to be very fond of them.
Something that I'd been enjoying recently is Nations Noodle, which reminds me a little of old Pot Noodles, but it seems they've started disappearing from the shops (the ones in my area at least).

I might add that I got a CRATE of chicken and mushroom pot noodles off a friend recently. I used to like them but I went off them when they decided to remove all flavour from them.

I'd take a picture but just imagine fifty odd pot noodles.

>>3318
Wow, time to inject some flavour enhancers and hyrdogenated fat back into them and sell them on /nom/.

I too miss the old taste of Pot Noodles from my school-days.

>>3316

Perhaps the quality of the noodle they get from the mine isn't as good a quality as it was in yore.

>>3030

I hate gook shit.

>>3322
Charlie really messed you up in Nam eh?

>>3323
Fuck yeah messed up. Whenever I have to taste that shit I black out and shake. When I wake up it's in a pile of my own fluid.

>>3322
gb2/iq/ son.

>>3030

Shin Cup.

Lived off those at uni.

>>3483
Good lad. A proper man's noodle pot.

>>3030

thread bamp as I am just eating some post pub ramen that will stop me being fucked for work tomorrow.

some variety of shin summat from the local ethnian shop.

hopefully I won't have some kind of msg meltdown.

>>3819

>>3813 is me coming home from the pub last night... can't go wrong with some tasty 3 minute msg laden noodles

also, cheese on toast or poached eggs on toast are also winners.

>>3483
I fucking love those, nowhere around here sells them sadly.

>>3313
Indomie export noodles are what introduced me to JUST how good asian noodles could be, I've moved on to bigger and better things but I can't see why I used to pay 60p for a packet of supers when at 30p per pack(discount for more than 20) I can get small bowls of heaven.

Ever tried Udon ? That's one of the classic Japanese noodles - the other one being Soba and Somen.
They are usually available semi-fresh like in the image or just frozen.
I guess it would be impossible to cook a dried udon as they are about 5mm thick and therefore they would dissolve on the outside and still not be done on the inside.

Udons more of a soup based noodle.

Yaki-Soba drenched in soy sauce is the fucking Don.