The thing that sets
Shin Ramyun (that's how it's
Romanized on the package) and other similarly superior prepackaged ramens apart from
garden variety brands like
Nissin and
Top Ramen is that they have flavorings other than
MSG and
salt. If you've never had pack ramen from an
Asian food market, then you've never known
how good it could be. I don't know about
Filipino or
Chinese varieties, but at the
Korean markets you can get
Kimchi ramen,
Bibim Yeolmu (
my personal favorite, and not actually ramen),
Jajang-myun (also not ramen, but quite
tasty),
mushroom ramen, and tons of other
delectable morsels. Also, many of these are
vegetarian, unlike most of their
bland,
big chain market counterparts.
Ingredients:
noodle: wheat flour, palm oil, potato starch, salt.
soup base: salt, MSG, sugar, hydrolized vegetable protein (soybean, salt, maltodextrin), soybean paste powder (soybean, salt), spices (red pepper, garlic, onion, black pepper), capsicum, paprika, mushroom.
dehydrated vegetable mix: green onion, shitake mushroom, red pepper, carrot.
Taken straight from the label from a package from good ol' LA K-town itself.
DOESN'T IT JUST MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER ? ! ? !
Update: I forgot to mention that it comes in
cup noodle form. Delicious. The only
drawback though is that the soup base is still in a separate little packet (so don't add the
hot water without dumping in the seasoning first !).