#816: Vina Acecook Oh! Ricey Phnom Penh Style Instant Rice Noodles

Back in Washington! We had a great trip down to the Bay Area – saw the San Francisco Giants play (and win) at AT&T Park, went to Six Flags in Vallejo, CA and lots of other fun things. On the way home, we stopped at the Uwajimaya in Beaverton, Oregon. Found ten new varieties I’d never seen before and here’s one of them. Sounds good! Gonna give it a try.

Here’s the back of the package. Looks like you steep this one.

Rice noodles in here…

A packet of dry seasoning.

Has a kind of sweet taste to it. Upon looking up Phnom Penh Style on google, I found this story – mentions using rock sugar.

Seasoned oil.

Lots of little bits and pieces in there.

Veggies are usually quite good from this brand.

Lots of little straight pieces.

Finished. Added some veggies. The noodles are great – soft and seperate easily. The broth has a nice sweet flavor along with a lsight spice. The supplied veggies compliment very well – not only as a garnish but are appealing to look at. 3.75 out of 5.0 stars. UPC bar code 8934563453145 .

Here’s a demo of ‘steeping.’

A short piece about Vietnamese rock in the sixties

#793: Mr. Noodles Spicy Beef Simulated Flavour Instant Noodles

Here’s another pack of these Canadian instant noodles ! Thanks go to Mark K. and Erika L. for getting these to me! This is the first spicy one I’ll be trying – curious how it’ll be!

Here’s the back of the packaging.

The noodle block. Crunchy stuff!

Un sachet d’assaisonnement.

I gave it a taste and found it was indeed spicy.

Finished. Added some onions and an omelet with some beef lunch meat, pepper jack cheese and some Huy Fong Sriracha hot sauce. So far, these are the best noodles I’ve had by Mr. Noodles yet. Unfortunately, they’re really missing something: flavor. The texture is off too; hard to explain but they end up kind of weird during the chewing. The broth is good but has a kind of odd aftertaste. It is bland  however and leaves me wanting to add salt. Not something I usually can say about instant noodles. Sadness. 1.75 out of 5.0 stars. and UPC bar code 059491000785 .

Hey this is interesting – I wonder if they’re related?

To my surprise, a lot of people do YouTube videos of themselves enjoying sandwiches. So here’s a guy eating a sandwich.