A final big thank you to the person who sent me these – they work in a prison and didn’t want to be identified, so if you’re reading this, thank you very much! This is the last of the four prison varieties they sent. A little background – they’re clear so as to make it hard to smuggle in or hide contraband – stuff you mustn’t have in prison. This flavor is one you won’t find outside of prisons or correctional facilities; period. A special distributor deals with these for Maruchan. They definitely aren’t interested in hearing from you – I called them up once and they were very uninterested in selling or sending me samples and said try going to prison. So don’t bother them as you’d be wasting your time. Well, with that, let’s try this one.
Maruchan Ramen Noodle Soup Hot-n-Spicy Vegetable Flavor 40% Less Sodium (Prison) – United States
Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Says it doesn’t contain animal but check for yourself. To prepare, add noodle block to two cups boiling water and cook 3 minutes. Add in sachet and stir an additional minute. Finally, enjoy!
An instant noodle block.
A sachet of soup base powder seasoning.
Finished (click to enlarge). Added sesame seed, crushed red pepper, and scallion. Noodle as usual has that little bit of bite which is good. The broth is very muted. The flavor I get is a slightly spicy compelling vegetable flavor. It’s kind of like a ghost, haunting the soup that you can kind of detect but it’s barely present. The inclusion of the crushed red pepper in the sachet was nice. Very bland. 3.0 out of 5.0 stars. UPC bar code 041789004797.
Watch me cook on Instant Noodle Recipe Time!
