WAI WAI - QUICK: INSTANT NOODLES TOM KLONG (SMOKED FISH) FAVOUR
PRODUCT
Origin: Thailand
Brand: WAI WAI
Flavour: Tom Klong
Ingredients:
Wheat Flour
Palm Oil
Salt
Sugar
Chilli Powder
Fish Powder (1,5%)
Flavour Enhancer (E621)
Acid (E330)
Special Indications: May contain traces of
Crustaceans
Soybean
Milk
Sesame Seeds
Preparation:
Put all the contents of the package in a bowl.
Boil 320ml of water.
Add the water to the bowl.
Cover the bowl.
Wait for 2 minutes.
Stir well.
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REVIEW
Preparation: 9.5/10 - Very Easy (it even takes shorter than most brands so that's a nice plus)
Appearence: 4/10 - Meh (the noodles looked fine but the power didn't dissolve well [?], it kept kinda floating around, it was odd)
Smell: 8/10 - Good (stronger than my will to live some days, it was the very first thing I noticed. it smelled a lot of dried fish, had a sort of salty and sour quality to it)
Flavour Accuracy: 6/10 - Okay (it's mostly spice but you can definitely taste the sourness that tom klong is supposed to have in it. you just can't taste the most important thing: the fish)
Tastiness: 4/10 - Meh (it's mostly spice and it's not the good kind of spice, it's the kind that tastes like burned stuff. I would appreciate it more if the sourness was more evident, at least)
Spiciness: 7/10 - Spicy (it is evident that it's spice and it lingers in your mouth nicely. it's not the kind of spice you need to have water around for, though)
Texture: 5/10 - Average (they're wheat noodles and they behave like wheat noodles)
Portion: 5/10 - Okay (it can be a meal if you want it to be but if you wanna eat more you surely can)
Final Rating: 6 - Okay
Final Considerations: It was my first time eating noodles that attempt to be fish flavoured and I gotta say I was not impressed. The most memorable things about this are the smell and the spice but I feel like the smell is not that relevant when the flavour let's you down this bad, like... I was excited because of all the potential of that smell and I was disappointed right on the first bite. As for the spice... Truly, if you want spice you'll just gonna go get buldak like the rest of us but I guess it can work as well. R.I.P Tom Klong, tho.