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One thing Super 88 provides to me is a cornucopia of pot noodles, shipped direct from Vietnam and Japan and Thailand. Brilliantly, they now make ramen in round bricks, so they actually fit nicely in the pot. And the flavor selection goes far beyond pork-beef-chicken-shrimp.
The noodles always come with a packet of the salty soup base we expect to find in ramen noodles (though it's often, unexpectedly, 75% cayenne), but there's always a second packet, and often a third: a flavored oil packet, or a freeze-dried packet of veggies or squid bits that expand eightfold when they hit the hot water. Today, the instructions on the shoyu-flavor package included the step "3. Serve with seaweed," and indeed I found a little packet of delicate seaweed strips, the size of paper matches, packed in beside the noodles.
But the winner, hands down, is themiso-flavor kitsune udon noodle with fried bean curd. The curd sits loose in the package, like a mustard-yellow stick of gently corrugated baseball-card gum. When you break it into bits and drop the bits into the water, they expand into small, faintly sweet sponges that soak up the broth and deliver it to your tongue in a squelching wash of flavor. Joy!
Next week, I will try the durian-flavor beverage drink.
The noodles always come with a packet of the salty soup base we expect to find in ramen noodles (though it's often, unexpectedly, 75% cayenne), but there's always a second packet, and often a third: a flavored oil packet, or a freeze-dried packet of veggies or squid bits that expand eightfold when they hit the hot water. Today, the instructions on the shoyu-flavor package included the step "3. Serve with seaweed," and indeed I found a little packet of delicate seaweed strips, the size of paper matches, packed in beside the noodles.
But the winner, hands down, is the
Next week, I will try the durian-flavor beverage drink.
