Still, I saw a box of A-Sha Meteor Noodles with Danzai Sauce<\/a><\/strong> on sale in the Grocery Outlet <\/a>flyer, and I figured I could dip my toes into the ramen craze by trying these. While the ramen was good, I don’t think I’ll hurry to put my whole foot inside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThese noodles are air dried, rather than fried, so they don’t have much flavor on their own. They have to be boiled in water for 5 minutes, but rather than add a powder to the boiling water to create a broth, you drain them and mix them with the sauce that comes in the pouch. All the flavor comes the sauce. And I just can’t really describe the flavor. It’s savory, maybe somewhat meaty<\/em> in the way that mushrooms are, but not really tasting of mushrooms, and fully of MSG-produced umami. It’s tasty enough, but not memorable and I can’t imagine myself craving it. If anything, it made me miss regular ramen. Unusual and tasty ramen-style noodles I’ve been eating ramen since college – and I still do from time to time – but I pretty much missed the ramen revolution of the last decade or so. I’ve seen the new ramen styles at the grocery store and read vague reference to them, but I never paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[299,452,719,27,28],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-items","category-grocery-outlet","tag-chinese","tag-noodles","tag-ramen","tag-review","tag-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
My husband liked it more and had it a couple of times. I don’t think we’d buy it again after we finish this box.
I think we paid $6 for the box of 12 at Grocery Outlet, but its official retail value is $20.
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