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I love noodles. When I was three years old my parents gave me Chinese noodles and I ate so much I threw up :) that’s when I got trauma bonded to them and they’ve been a central part of my life ever since. Enjoy!

5/5

Yunnan’s rice noodles sour soup (云南酸汤米线) from Yunnan restaurant

This is one of my very favourite dishes ever! It’s made with three different types of tomatoes, lemon, enoki mushrooms, rice noodles, tofu skin, tofu, cabbage, coriander and thinly chopped spring onion. It’s just the best thing ever. I don’t think I ever ordered anything else from this restaurant because I fully know no dish will ever top this

Hot chili oil noodles (油泼面) from Chinatown restaurant 

I had a phase when I just wanted to go to Chinatown to eat this. It looks super spicy, but it really isn’t. I assume the red powder is actual chili powder, but honestly it almost tastes like paprika. The noodles are spicy though, but that’s because of the chili oil

Scallion oil noodles (葱油拌面) from Chinatown restaurant

Before the hot chili oil noodles phase I had a scallion oil noodles phase. These might look less appetising than the others, but they’re truly one of the best things I ever ate. They’re not spicy, just very fragrant. They have a sweet aftertaste, which I guess is not for everyone, but I love it

Re gan mian (热干面) from Chinatown restaurant

This is a recipe from Wuhan. The sauce is made with peanut butter, chili oil, and, I suspect, something similar to chili oil beancurd which is one of the most addictive ingredients on the planet. They also put full Sichuan peppercorns and peanuts in it

Buldak ramen - kimchi flavour (red)

I’m kind of obsessed with buldak ramen, and this flavour and the jjajiang one are my favourites. I try not to eat too many or I have to go to the shop too soon to buy more and I always feel paranoid about the cashier judging me for how many buldak ramen I get since I watched a Chinese drama and a guy walked into a girl’s room who recently became poor, saw a packet of instant ramen on her desk and a sad music started playing

Buldak ramen - jjajang (green)

This is like a casual zhajiang mian flavour + buldak flavour, which is great. Zhajiang mian are a gift from the gods and so are buldak ramen. So this is like two gifts from the heavens combined in one :)

Ottogi Beijing jjajang ramen

I think this is the best instant noodle version of the "real" zhajiang mian

4/5

“Dan dan” noodles from my Chinese professor’s favourite restaurant

Can’t remember how they called them on the menu, I believe they’re just dan dan noodles, or anyway they tasted like it. They’re good, but they put way too much garlic, which was great but it made me unable to speak to people for the next 48 hours. They used a weird ingredient that tasted like anchovy paste, but the dish didn’t contain fish, so I don’t know what that was

Taiwanese liang mian from Taiwanese restaurant

Ok these were great, but they had a weird... hazelnut icecream aftertaste? That’s the best way I can describe it. In one second I got nuked back to when I was 6 years old, wrapped in a towel, in a post 3 hours nonstop swimming session catharsis, eating an icecream sandwich on the beach. Odd, but not necessarily gross

vegan shrimp ramen from Japanese restaurant

the valerian was an odd choice, and it was slightly too salty and it might have made me wake up 5 times during the night to chug down like 5 litres of water, but besides from that it was actually amazing. Still thinking about those mushrooms. We ordered everything on an ipad woohoo

Buldak ramen - carbonara (pink)

Some Italians hate when “uncultured” foreigners butcher their secular recipes, I love it. These don’t taste like a carbonara obviously, but honestly they’re just as good. Buldak carbonara ramen are on the same level as authentic Roman carbonara, I’ll die on this hill (actually I won’t, I’m not that brave to say that to people irl)

Buldak ramen - cheese (yellow)

Very good. They’re for when you don’t wanna lacrimate while eating dinner
(is that a €13 Doraemon ceramic bowl? Yeah. It is ^_^)

veggie ramen from expensive Japanese restaurant

I never tried tonkotsu ramen but I feel like they were trying to recreate that flavour for these ramen. They were really good, but they had a bitter aftertaste I didn’t really enjoy. You know when there’s too much miso or earthy mushrooms and it goes from amazing to too bitter? I had this same dish like three times, and the bitterness was always there. Besides that, it’s a solid 4/5

spaghetti with store bought mushroom sauce

I love this sauce so much. It’s my go-to depression dish. Pictured with spaghetti, I like it best with tiny pasta

Buldak ramen - 2x spicy chicken flavour

A bit confused as on why they’re “2x spicy”, because I can’t feel the difference, but they’re great. I consider them the plain/original buldak flavour

homemade dandan noodles

kinda weird to add my own dish to this list, but I eat this way too many times not to

Unif Beef & Sauerkraut Flavour Noodles

I used to eat a lot of these, then I got tired of soupy ramen. I still eat them from time to time, and I really like to add soft tofu to them. Nongshim Soon veggie ramen and these ones the only type of soup ramen I buy

Nongshim Soon veggie ramen

Very spicy & very good

I think these are Paldo stirfried kimchi ramen

I ate them once ages ago and never found them in the stores again. I think they were really really good, but I can't really remember anymore :'(

3/5

Paldo jajjang men

Good, but they have a bitter aftertaste I don’t like

dan dan noodles from fancy Chinese restaurant

I have a strong preference for a dandan sauce that doesn’t have a lot of sesame paste in it, and this one had a lot, so it was pretty bitter. But in general it was good

Chinese fake crab spicy ramen

I think these are actually a weird Chinese buldak off-brand. I thought these were my new favourite ramen the first two times I tried them, but then I suddenly got bored. And no, they don’t taste like crab, it’s the green dried herbs that kind of taste like a seafood dish seasoning

Itsuki Hokkaido yuzu ramen

I was so excited when I saw yuzu shio ramen, but they were extremely bland. Not bad, just bland. I wanted to cry and pour a can of Fanta in my bowl just to feel something

Buldak ramen - curry

Confusing. I didn’t like them the first time I tried them, then I saw them in a shop and bought them again, idk why. Turns out they’re ok. I guess it’s just hard for me to comprehend curry noodles as a concept. I’ve never seen anyone/any brand using curry outside of Indian cuisine, but Buldak isn’t a brand from my personal European-Chinese hemisphere, so it makes sense

Jin ramen - veggie (expired)

I appreciate shops giving out free items that just expired. However, this ramen was not only just expired, but it also looked like it stayed in a humid place for a long time. I ate half of it and then I felt like I had 1kg of cement in my stomach, so I threw it away. The taste was ok though. I'll buy it again to try the edible version, for now it's a 3/5

2/5

Liang fen from Chinese restaurant

Tasted unbalanced to me, but can’t put my finger on what was wrong

1/5

veggie ramen from somewhat fancy Japanese restaurant

The big slabs of raw peppers were completely random, as if I wanna snack on a pepper stick while eating ramen? The mushrooms on the right were great. The whole thing was sad. Not giving 0/5 solely because of the mushrooms. ps. those pumpkin croquettes on the left though were incredible :')

Buldak ramen - hot chicken flavour

No idea why, but these ones make me kinda nauseous?

0/5

veggie ramen from Chinatown Japanese restaurant

I genuinely do not understand why would anyone add romaine to ramen. The mu’er mushrooms were also too many and the whole thing tasted very bland, like something you’d eat when you’re sick. I tried to add more of that hot sesame concoction you see on top to no avail. It was like boiled ramen with raw veggies in 2 litres of water. I ate the whole thing and had to pee twice

"fancy" Chinese instant noodles

these were on clearance, and the original price was actually somewhat high for instant noodles. I always saw this type in the shops and wondered how spending 5 euros for instant ramen felt like, so since they had a normal price for the first time I went for it. Wish I didn’t. The sauce was actually way more than all the other noodles I tried, and the noodles themselves seemed to be of a somewhat decent quality, but the taste was way off. It tasted like liquorice, medicine, and 王老吉 (Chinese herbal soda). I had to throw them away