I am yet to find a satisfying Asian-style pot noodle that purports to be low fat, low calorie and/or miscellaneously "healthy" that doesn't end up smelling and tasting like bile.
This is a real bummer, because I absolutely love good Asian noodles — we've just recently started to be able to get Nissin Cup Noodle over here, and those are delicious. Unfortunately, with how oily the particularly delicious noodles tend to be, they're not a brilliant fit when one is attempting to lose weight.
I continually get suckered in by the promise of such delicious bounty as chicken laksa, penang beef and Thai red curry, but every time they're distinctly… I can't really think of any word for it other than biley or vomity. I don't mean in terms of flavour; often the flavour is vaguely acceptable, although the smell is often pretty awful. Rather, I mean that on the way down, they kind of feel quite like I'd imagine them on the way back up again; a sort of burny sensation that isn't especially pleasant.
And when I say the flavour is "vaguely acceptable", I really mean that; not one of these noodle pots has come close to replicating the authentic experience of enjoying any of the aforementioned dishes, all of which I'm a big fan of in their super-unhealthy takeaway form. But I guess it was ever thus for "healthy" foods that attempt to replicate something else; to get rid of those calories and that fat, you're inevitably ditching the things that made it delicious in the first place.
But I say no more! No longer shall I fall for your noodly wiles, Naked Noodle and Kabuto Noodles! I know you're shit! Give me a good Pot Noodle (not authentic Asian) or Nissin Cup Noodle (more authentic Asian) any day and hang the consequences, I say!
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