Happy Mie = Happy Me

[patgund]

For 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

Comments

[aoniedesade.livejournal.com]

I just ate three packages of the mi-goreng you sent me. It was GOOD. Esp. since it is warm and starches settle my antibiotics-riddled tummy. So thank you verra verra much for the case of it. You are a saint.

One in Atlanta, you say? Hmm. I'm going there for New Year's...*plot, plot*

Oy.

[ophy.livejournal.com]

So I'm going to have to print out this post and take it with me.

I spent another 20 minutes wandering around after I got off the phone with you and couldn't find anything we'd talked about.

Didn't know who was weirded out more: me being the only white person in there and the only person speaking English (into a cell phone no less) or everyone around me who would stop talking and stare as I shuffled by looking for ramen.

Either way, I'm determined to find some of this starchy goodness. Plus, I wanna pick up a few packages of the fresh udon noodles and the large bottle of "drunked chicken marinade" I saw while looking for the kecap. :)

Re: Oy.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Well, if it helps...

Ramen Depot has a picture of the type of IndoMie I was mentioning at:

http://ramendepot.com/default.asp?S=503&A=E&PKV=0088IIP140712|0

Another picture at:
http://sejahtera.marsinna.com/image-indomie.htm

(The Mi Goreng is the top left picture)

Pictures of the Happy Mie brand are at:

http://www.takari.com/noodles.htm

As for the Kecap sweet soy, I usually go for the ABC Brand, red label. (Kecap Mannis) A picture of this type is at:

http://www.drhot.net/abcsweetsoys.html

Depending on the 99 Ranch Market, the IndoMie is usually either with all the Instant Noodles, or in the Indoesan food section. Usually, 99 Ranch also sells cases of the IndoMie and Happy Mie brands as well, check bulk foods or anywhere else you see boxes of food. A case of 30 IndoMie packages is between $7 and $9 usually.

If you can't find the Mi Goreng, try their "special chicken" or "onion chicken" flavours.

Re: Oy.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Worse comes to worse, I'll send you an assortment of IndoMies and Happy Mies. :-)