Sunday, November 12, 2006

Nissin Demae Ramen - Spicy Flavor

The Nissin Demae Spicy Flavor is one that I remember fondly from my childhood when my family would purchase entire cases of these. I also remember the fiery bliss of having numb lips and tongue after downing one of these.

The packaging has changed a little bit over the years, but the message remains the same: these things are SPICY. I especially like that they don't try to mask the intent of these noodles as "Spicy Beef Flavor" or "Kimchi Flavor" or anything like that. I am very familiar with Nissin Demae's noodles and they represent the default noodles that I think of when I think of instant ramen.

I was very confused when I made these noodles. They looked nothing like I remembered, which was a sea of red, almost as intense as seen on the packaging. The taste was even more disappointing! It really wasn't spicy at all, and tasted mostly of just sesame oil. I have no idea what went wrong, but I'm hoping that I just received a fluke package or something. I will have to pick up another pack of these sometime and find out for sure.

Nissin Demae Ramen - Spicy Flavor - 4.0/10
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous8/06/2007 8:37 PM

    i think you most probably were right about the flavour mismatch, i eat these ramen often nissin demae spicy flavour and they have never came out looking like that ^^

    more like a red sea, pick up another package and give them the rating they properly deserve ^^

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  2. Alvin8/06/2007 8:42 PM

    I'm still not quite sure what happened with this pack, but I had good success with the Nissin Chili Flavor so I'm going to stick with that one for the near future.

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  3. Anonymous8/13/2007 7:52 PM

    My local asian grocery store doesnt sell the chilli flavour so i have to stick with the spicy one, although they have quite a wide selection of all lovely kind of ramen, my faves are samyang ham n beef, sutah, nong shin ramyun nissin demae spicy and nissin demae tom yam goong which is a new flavour i picked up last week and was a nice one, i'll keep looking for that chilli one ^^

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  4. Anonymous4/27/2008 11:26 AM

    I snagged one of these yesterday. As you said the sesame oil taste was mostly all I could taste...

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  5. Anonymous9/15/2008 8:42 AM

    I love these ramen, The ones i had are very good.

    I can find them in every asian supermarket in the UK but now i'm in japan i can't find them anywhere.... sucks

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  6. DanO12/21/2008 9:05 AM

    I've just had a packet of these from our local asian grocery store - really nice. I've also got some "Pa-Lo Duck" and "Bean Thread Clear Soup" flavour ones to try.

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  7. Anonymous5/02/2011 11:46 AM

    I think you bought the sesame oil flavoured one that once - which is obviously mean to be much milder than the spicy one.

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