Instant Noodle Review: Indomie Beef Noodles

It is time for another noodle review :) Zeronic has tasted another type of beef noodles. Lets see what he thought about them:

This time I am reviewing a noodle brand by the name of Indomie. This name is a bit more popular as you can get this brand in several supermarkets in the Netherlands. I bought this one at a local toko though. Indomie Instant noodles is manufactured and marketed by Dufil Group in the West African market, which is a bit strange if you look at the name. If you want more information go to: www.dufil.com

The package looks about the same as the last noodle review, except it has a different print of course. This package contains 68 grams of noodles. I had to pay a bit more then the last package of noodles, 0,45 Euro. I bought 3 packages each with a different flavor. And again I decided to go for beef.
This package had a bit more additions then the last one. Next to herbs and beef flavor it also had some sesame oil and soy sauce. Pepper was also included, but since I am not a great fan of pepper I didn’t use it. In my last review I talked about the surprise of tasting real beef but no additional spices… This was the exact opposite. The soy and herbs really come out in this brand of instant noodles… but the beef flavor is hard to find.

The noodles are also not that great. Even though I let them boil in hot water for about 3 minutes, they tasted like they weren’t cooked enough. Also, only the sesame oil seemed to be absorbed by it, giving it a rather weird taste.
And for the soup, well, it is the only thing that really has the spicy flavor but instant noodles should taste great as a whole so I probably wouldn’t buy this peculiar type of noodles again. Hopefully the next type of noodles from this company taste better.

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Instant Noodle Review: Spicy Beef Noodles

I am not a great fan of instant noodles myself but the BF doesn't mind those at all. I thought it would be fun to compare brands of instant noodles so that people who like to eat them will know which are good and which to leave in the store. But since I am not really into them, it wouldn't be fair if I would review those. Besides as a vegetarian I can't sample most flavors anyway. So my BF will make a regular appearance as a guest blogger with these reviews :) I guess it will be time that I call him by name now, or at least by nickname ;) So enough rambling from me, lets see what Zeronic has to say about those noodles.

The noodle brand is Tu Quy mi bo cay. As usual it is probably a name you haven’t heard before, since there seem to be 1000 brands of noodles out there. Anyways, these noodles are made by a company called Vifon. They make all sorts of instant noodles / cupnoodles and are located in Vietnam. For more info go to: www.vifon.com.vn. They have a nice website that displays in Vietnamese or English.

The package itself is a normal noodle package, wrapped in foil and it contains 62 grams of tasty noodles. I found the package in a local toko in a city called Enschede in the Netherlands and paid 0.30 eurocent for it. I bought it just because I was feeling like eating beef noodles for a snack. This wasn’t meant for reviewing, until Uniflame asked, so I did.

While opening the package it wasn’t something out of the ordinary. I put the noodles in the cup and poured boiling water over it. Then I put the soup and beef flavor in and waited for 3 minutes. Again, it smelled like normal cup noodles. Not even spicy, although the cover says it is Spicy beef noodle soup. I smelled a bit of oriental herbs, but nothing much. The taste however, was a total surprise for me. The strange thing is, most cup noodles I tasted… didn’t have beef flavor. Well it tasted like some chemical kind of meat… which you get used to. But this actually tastes like beef! The spiciness however, wasn’t there. Again, it smelled and tasted like oriental herbs. But the boiling water hurts your mouth more than the so called spiciness. The noodles itself are a bit sweet, and taste a bit like sweet potato. And the soup itself… well a combination of broth and the tastes I described above.
If I would find this kind of noodles again, I would buy them, since they taste a lot better than the normal noodles you find in the local supermarket. I hope I will find the product once more.

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