{"id":1600,"date":"2013-02-10T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2013-02-10T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:01:48","slug":"slither-slurp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/02\/10\/slither-slurp\/","title":{"rendered":"Slither & Slurp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013.02.10.a\"<\/a>\"2013.02.10.b\"<\/a>This year, I’m celebrating the year of the snake with my own tribute to slippery, slithery goodness – noodles! I kicked off the first round of Glenn’s Instant Noodle Competition with the selection below. For the past two months, I’ve been sampling various candidates from Li Ming’s<\/a> expansive noodle aisle, with the hope of finding a worthy successor, or at least substitute, for my beloved Neoguri<\/a>. Each package gets two scores (x,y) – x for soup base, y for noodles. Here’re the candidates:<\/p>\n

1. Mama Shrimp (Tom Yum) Flavour<\/a> (8,7): Spicy, flavorful tom yum soup with light-textured deep-fried noodle, worthy of the mama’s cooking. Don’t overcook and add an egg.
\n2. Fuku Superior Soup Instant Noodle<\/a> (8,7): The umami broth is worth drinking alone, let alone paired with springy deep-fried noodles. Advertised as edible 3 ways (+\/-soup or raw), it’s truly superior!
\n3. Oh! Ricey – Hu Tieu Nam Vang<\/a> (5,6): Bits of chunky freeze-dried meat flakes & veggies barely rescues the uninspired soup base. The pho is surprisingly resilient.
\n4. Kung-Fu – Instant Oriental Noodle Soup (Artificial Beef Flavor)<\/a> (6,5): Use kung fu to fend off the more oniony than beefy soup while slurping average-quality noodles.
\n5. Ve Wong – Vegetarian Noodle (Mi Chay)<\/a> (7,7): Can’t go Wong with a hearty broth of assorted dehydrated veggies and faux meat. Noodles are generic, but springy.
\n6. Wai Wai – Oriental Style Instant Noodle <\/a>(4,2): It you like crunchy but rubbery noodles drenched in bland, salty soup base, then this one is right for you.
\n7. Six Fortune – Instant Noodles (Seafood Flavor)<\/a> (8,7): Nong Shim called and want their recipe back. Otherwise identical to Neoguri, the only difference are little fish cake bits. Not quite the original.
\n8. Six Fortune – Beef Noodle<\/a> (5,6): The strong star anise aroma is overpowering, despite freeze-dried meat bits and scallions in the soup base. Noodles are average.
\n9. Nissin – Ramen Noodle (with Sesame Oil)<\/a> (6,6): The traditional sesame broth and noodles taste like what I remembered. Nostalgic, but really just so-so for the name recognition.<\/p>\n

For those of you who may feel bad for me because you look down on MSG and dehydrated noodles, rest assured I did also manage to mooch off a friend’s New Year dinner party, and even contribute some store-bought nian gao<\/a> to the spread of fried pork buns, spring rolls, and tofu salad. The shindig gave me a good break from starting my studying for my written board exam in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, I’m celebrating the year of the snake with my own tribute to slippery, slithery goodness – noodles! I kicked off the first round of Glenn’s Instant Noodle Competition with the selection below. For the past two months, I’ve … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}