#900: Maruchan Instant Lunch Chicken Flavor Ramen Noodles With Vegetables

When I recently redid The Big List, I noticed some things. One of them was that I have never reviewed this one, nor it’s Beef or Shrimp fellow Instant Lunches! Talk about an oversight on my part… I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do a Meet The Manufacturer with Maruchan soon – thanks to everyone who has asked me to do one, it’s just I’ve never been able to successfully get in touch with them. Well, here we go with a close up and personal with Maruchan’s Instant Lunch: Chicken Flavor.

Here’s the back of the cardboard packaging (click to enlarge).

Under the cardboard outer is the familiar foam cup.

Here’s the lid (click to enlarge). Read the lid! It says use a SEPARATE CONTAINER to heat the water and add to the cup – don’t microwave the cup!

The seasoning and vegetables are right there under the lid; no packets.

Finished. Added boiled chicken, green bell pepper, broccoli, yellow onion and Krazy Mixed Up Salt. When I stirred the noodles, veggies and liquid initially, there was a kind of frothy foam. The noodles are thin and have a kind of buttery flavor and light texture. The broth has a pleasant, salty chicken flavor and nice color – not bad. The veggies weren’t bad either – I think I liked the peas the most, the corn the least and the carrot in between. I could totally enjoy something like this for lunch. 3.5 out of 5.0 stars. UPC bar code 041789001215 – get it here

New Maruchan commercial.

A TV commercial for Maruchan Instant Lunch and Yakisoba products.

#736: Maruchan Yakisoba Spicy Vegetable Flavor Homestyle Japanese Noodles

Haven’t done one of these in a while! This is another one donated by Ramen Place. Spicy vegetable huh? That’s a kind of weird flavor. I have seen vegetable / vegetarian flavor and then spicy varieties, but not usually spicy vegetable. Well, let’s try it out!

Here’s the bottom…

Here’s the inner lid.

The bid rectangular noodle block!

Packet one – the vegggies!

Lots of veggies be here!

Here’s the seasoning – this gets stirred in after the cooking.

The seasoning is plentiful.

My boy Andy had some noodles too! He picked Sapporo Ichiban Shio!

Finished. Added some veggies we got locally, a little chicken lunch meat, a hard boiled egg, some pickled ginger, some Ajishima Kimchi furikake, some Krazy Mixed Up Salt and a little Huy Fong Sriracha chili sauce. Not bad – I liked the noodles and they did have a bit of a spiciness to them – not a lot though. The veggies were quite good. I added a tiny bit more water than called for – our microwave is a mean old cus and ultra powerful so I think that’s the safe way to go – not a ton but maybe 1/32 cup or so. All things considered, not bad – 3.25 out of 5.0 stars. UPC bar code 041789007095 – get it here.

Maruchan Yakisoba commercial.

Que es yakisoba?

#496: Maruchan Yakisoba With Shrimp Homestyle Japanese Noodles

Got this one at Walmart. Was pretty sure I hadn’t tried it and was right so here goes.

Instructions: add a cup of water and packet one. Microwave 4 minutes. Then add packet two and stir and bam you got it.

Packet one had veggies, two was the powder seasoning.

Looks like it should be shrimpy!

Finished. So most of the veggies came out of the container in the microwave. Pretty lame there. The other lame thing is that it doesn’t really taste much like shrimp at all. However it does taste like garlic – a flavoring close to my heart  and I enjoy that. Hmmm… I wouldn’t call this great but it isn’t unpalatable. It doesn’t say garlic noodles though. 2.75 out of 5.0 stars. UPC bar code 041789007057 Find it here.

The Japanese one looks better…

Ramen Rater blurb on Seattle’s KOMO AM 1000