Happy Mie = Happy Me
Dec. 2nd, 2003 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundFor a while now, I've mentioned IndoMie, or as I call it, "The World's Most Addictive Ramen". The Mie Goreng fried noodle flavour being the best of the lot, IMHO.
However, I must give a very close, (and I mean VERY close second), to a competing brand I found at 99 Ranch Market, also from Indoesia. That being Happy Mie.
Gods this stuff is GOOD. One nice thing about it for me is that the dried onions are in a separate package from the other spices, so I can just leave those out of my ramen and enjoy the rest. The noodles are also good dry, and rather than IndoMie's two dry package (Seasoning & Chili), and two wet package (Sweet Soy and Seasoning Oil), Happy Mie uses two dry (Seasoning and Dried Onions), and three wet packages (Seasoning Oil, Sweet Soy, and Chili Paste.)
The only things that placed it in second was the thickest "kecap"-style sweet soy I've ever seen, (more like a soy syrup than a soy sauce, and easily more thicker than the IndoMie kecap), and the fact that even with half the package, the chili paste was *way* hotter than I was comfortable with, (and I usually like medium spicy food. Alas, the days of super-spicy food are behind me.)
Still, really, really good fried noodle-style ramen.
Side note - I found out that 99 Ranch Market is now in Phoenix AZ, Las Vegas NV, Kent, Seattle WA, Atlanta GA, and a batch scattered around the SF Bay Area. None in Texas or Mississippi yet, which is much to certain friends of mine's disappointment
However, I must give a very close, (and I mean VERY close second), to a competing brand I found at 99 Ranch Market, also from Indoesia. That being Happy Mie.
Gods this stuff is GOOD. One nice thing about it for me is that the dried onions are in a separate package from the other spices, so I can just leave those out of my ramen and enjoy the rest. The noodles are also good dry, and rather than IndoMie's two dry package (Seasoning & Chili), and two wet package (Sweet Soy and Seasoning Oil), Happy Mie uses two dry (Seasoning and Dried Onions), and three wet packages (Seasoning Oil, Sweet Soy, and Chili Paste.)
The only things that placed it in second was the thickest "kecap"-style sweet soy I've ever seen, (more like a soy syrup than a soy sauce, and easily more thicker than the IndoMie kecap), and the fact that even with half the package, the chili paste was *way* hotter than I was comfortable with, (and I usually like medium spicy food. Alas, the days of super-spicy food are behind me.)
Still, really, really good fried noodle-style ramen.
Side note - I found out that 99 Ranch Market is now in Phoenix AZ, Las Vegas NV, Kent, Seattle WA, Atlanta GA, and a batch scattered around the SF Bay Area. None in Texas or Mississippi yet, which is much to certain friends of mine's disappointment
