I was quite happy to see a few new big bowl style instant noodles when I was at an Asian grocery the other day, especially Dragonfly brand – I think I’ve only reviewed a single solitary Dragonfly instant noodle thus far. Now I think there’s at least four or five to do! Well, let’s start with this one. Beefalicious? Let’s hope so – I mean it IS the review before the big psychological number 500!
Alrighty here we go! First, a nice new fork – it’s in the Included Forks report – the 9/7/2011 update. As for the seasoning sachets, from left to right we have liquid sauce, veggies and finally the dry powder seasoning.
Doesn’t look all that exciting here – the liquid smells kind of nice…
Click image to enlarge. Added one fried egg. Well, I’m extremely pleased with this one! The first bite had some unexpected spiciness – strange spiciness! All I can say is that it was a slightly hot flavor with hints of beef and an almost bacon like finish. The broth was very nice – had just enough oil from the liquid packet to be very reminiscent of a beef broth. The veggies were amazing – carrot and cabbage notes made everything very well balanced. I was sad that the meal had to end. I highly recommend it and happily give it 4.75 out of 5.0 stars.
Well, I found Dragonfly Brand mentioned in this instructional video…
A few months ago when I was on Anacortes’ KWLE 1340AM ‘The Whale!’
Tainted,
Your comment reminds me of this, a story from a 1958 Reader’s Digest:
I am in the Mission Supply Store at Madang, New Guinea, and recently the senior pilot with the Christian and Missionary Alliance told me something that gave me pause — and stirred our store into sudden action. The natives around Lake Archbold are unashamedly cannibals and, he reported, they are now convinced that the missionaries are cannibals, too, on evidence observed in missionary homes. They have seen tins with a picture of a fish on the label and, sure enough, the tin contains fish. Likewise a tin of green peas has a label showing peas, and a picture of tomatoes on a tin invariably means tomatoes.
The tinned-goods firm that supplies us has been advised that it must find some means of convincing the natives that its baby food is made for babies and not of babies.
MMM! Baby Lima Beans!
The Ramen Rater
Its interesting to me how on many international foods they have no reservations about putting a cow (or chicken or whatever) on the packaging. In america, that would never fly unless possibly in some cartoon form. I guess people are less sensitive then we are. Either that or they do it to avoid a language barrier? I dunno. I would still prefer to see some nice roast beef slices over a bed of noodles instead of an emaciated-looking cow.
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– The Ramen Rater