Will it be Iron Chef Japan? Or Iron Chef French? Iron Chef Chinese? Or will it be Iron Chef Instan

[dolari]

Several months (years?) ago, I mentioned The World's Best Ramen. It was a long story about how Dean and I became Ramen Snobs after sampling some good old fashioned Oriental Store Ramen. After trying many packages out (we were poor, we had to eat what we could) we discovered two things:

1) Indomie Ramen is the Best Ramen ever produced by man in the history of instant noodles, especially their Onion Chicken Flavors.

2) Korean Ramen really does taste like mud.

The store we bought from in Pennsylvania caried four types of Indomie Ramen. Onion Chicken, Chicken Curry, Soto Mie, and Satay Fried Noodle. These are the only four I ever saw. And while all four of these are THE BEST RAMEN IN ALL OF ETERNITY, I got a special craving for the Soto Mie ramen. It's basically just a chickeny ramen with lime.

Four years later, we move to Austin. After scouring all the good ethnic shops, we settle on Muy Tanth for our ramen needs. Far Corners in State College had a small "Wall of ramen. Muy Tanth had the "Death Star Trench of Ramen." Again, we tried the ramen we hadn't before (I love Shin Ramyun and this other one that I can only read as "Spicy Seafood Flavor), and we eventually made it down to the Indomie ramen, and learned that Indomie made more than four. At the very least they made 7, the other three being different types of Mi Goreng.

Then tragedy - Suddenly, the indomie selection was down to three - Chicken Curry, Onion Chicken and...Mi Goreng (regular flavor). ALAS, There was no more Soto Mie. I looked at all the other oriental stores I knew of and found nothing. I figured Indomie just didn't make Soto Mie anymore.

Skip forward to a week ago.

I was talking with a coworker about ramen and told her about Soto Mie, when I realized: Indomie is prolly not the only company that makes Soto Mie. Look around for it! So I got online and looked around. And I not only found a place that still sold Soto Mie Indomie ramen, but...



FOURTEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF RAMEN. (And the total cost was about $5 :) )

I'm really looking forward to trying the other flavors. Indomie has never done me wrong, before. I've never had oxtail or skipjack tuna before...and if they suck? Well, I'm out 40 cents. But if they're good... Mmmmmmmmmm...............

I love that "Special Chicken Flavor" though. I haven't tried it yet, but it's Asia's answer to American Chicken Flavor (or as I like to call it, chicken laced salt flavor). I wonder what it tastes like compared to Maruchan chicken flavor.

I'll review these as get through them. Mmm mmm tasty. :D