Sunday, September 10, 2006

Nissin Demae XO Sauce Seafood Flavor

As this ramen blog has established, the Nissin Demae ramen line is typically mediocre with cardboard-like noodles and very little flavor. Nevertheless, I decided to the XO Sauce Seafood Flavor out of curiosity. What is XO sauce?



The ramen comes with three packets - a soup base, "oil", and a brown paste. The soup base has some dehydrated green onions that plump up nicely in the soup.



The noodles were definitely the typical Nissin Demae noodles - I could identify these in a blind taste test I think. The broth tasted quite strongly of the artificial seafood flavor common to instant ramen and the oil provded a nice creaminess to the meal. However, I'm still not sure what XO sauce is - it tasted somewhat garlicky. Nevertheless, this is probably my favorite of the Nissin Demae ramens that I've tried so far.
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7 comments:

  1. Alvin9/10/2006 12:33 PM

    Actually, I don't think Nissin is bad at all! They aren't the best, but some of their flavors are quite good. I particularly like their Hot and Spicy flavor, I'll have to pick it up and review it next time I stop by 99 Ranch Market.

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  2. Anonymous9/11/2006 8:58 PM

    No ranking of the Seafood flavor?

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  3. Anonymous10/29/2006 11:21 AM

    XO is a sauce used in Chinese cooking - usually based on dried scallops (conpoy), chillies, garlic and onion. I quite like Nissin noodles. Try their Laksa flavour.

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  4. Anonymous11/02/2006 10:14 AM

    More on XO here at wikipedia

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  5. Anonymous4/21/2008 12:45 PM

    Nissin owns!

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  6. Anonymous6/06/2010 1:20 AM

    try some Nissin Cup Noodles XO Sauce Seafood Flavor
    that s my flavor

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  7. Hikarinohanafansub1/02/2024 11:56 PM

    Thhis is a great blog

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