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Hellfish
Posts: 391 Location: Mexico |
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I had not idea ours was a exclusive
 Very interesting
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AnimeLordLuis
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I would love to try the spicy beef flavors, you can never have enough spice in your noodles.
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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Predictably, I see the infamous local delicacy that is Pot Noodle failed to rank amongst the finalists.
But a masala can contain anything! The only applicable condition is that a masala must consist of a mixture of spices, trivially enough. |
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leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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They have to pick within the flavors Nissin pre-selected? There's way more variety than that! Or are these the finalists from initially being able to pick any flavor Nissin makes anywhere in the world?
And I can say that, living in the southwestern United States, both Cup Noodles and Instant Lunch come in Mexican and Tex-Mex flavors like the aforementioned spicy shrimp, chili lime, chicken tortilla, cheese (which seems to be cheddar with Tex-Mex spices), and carne asada.
It's most likely horseradish. Authentic wasabi becomes stale in a matter of hours after processing and cannot be easily freeze-dried without losing its flavor, which is why some sushi places will buy wasabi in stalks and they process them in the restaurant to order.
It's not. You've probably read the upper partof my post now, but that flavor, along with a bunch of others, is also sold in the United States. I'm certain the United States also has a lot of other flavors associated with other countries in places with a large ethnic population from that country and imports a lot of them too.
General spice mixes from India seem to frequently get misinterpreted as something more specific. The mix simply known as "curry powder," for instance, was originally given as gifts to visitors from other countries, and those visitors mistook this specific mix as something Indians put on all of their curry, and so in Europe and the Americas, that spice mix is known as curry powder when in reality it's just one kind out of thousands upon thousands. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened with the word "masala." |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I think T&T Supermarkets (owned by Loblaws but specializing in Asian cuisine) also imports some of the USA & Mexico variants of Cup Noodles like Spicy Shrimp that Nissin generally doesn't seem to distribute themselves in Canada. We can get the regular shrimp Cup Noodles at some mainstream supermarkets like Metro (though annoyingly not at every Metro), but I've only ever seen Spicy Shrimp at T&T. I noticed that a lot of supermarkets in Canada no longer seem to get the "regular" Nissin Cup Noodles (in the cardboard sleeve) but they get Nissin "Big Cup Noodles" instead, but those are inferior products that only have shrimp-flavoured soup base, they don't have the freeze-dried shrimp like the "regular" shrimp Cup Noodles have. |
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XerneasYveltal
 Posts: 668 Location: Philippines |
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Bulalo and Batchoy both need more love.
Meanwhile, I would look forward to trying out the spicier flavors especially Spicy Beef and Spicy Seafood. If I could be able to travel abroad, that is. |
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Brutannica
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It's sold in Indonesia.
These are the spices Nissin specified. |
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Narutofreak1412
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I remember buying two pallets of the Wasabi ones for like 40€ (because it was on sale).
I ate it nearly every day until after a few weeks it simply was too much and I began to hate it. Back to topic: I had no idea that flavour is germany exclusive :O It's a lot spicier than the usual pseudo-asia instant food here in germany, so I thought it was some kind of import. |
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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The kind simply called "Shrimp" seems to be pan-American, and around where I live, it's almost as big a staple as the chicken one. Spicy shrimp, on the other hand, definitely has a Mexican feel to it. (All of the Mexican and Tex-Mex flavors I mentioned, by the way, are not imported from Mexico but made in the United States.) I've had the Big Cup Noodles. I don't really know why, but their quality feels lower than the normal stuff. The noodles get soggy instead of keeping their normal texture, and it just kind of tastes different in a way I don't really understand. |
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Kzwtl
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>.> the best I like is the "Curry Seafood Cup noodles - Hong Kong". I really wish they do online shipping. USA really do need more favor, Nissin stop leaving us with limited flavors lol...
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