{"id":8065,"date":"2013-11-20T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2013-11-20T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:11:48","slug":"cup-noodle-king-seafood-noodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/cup-noodle-king-seafood-noodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Noodle King Seafood Noodle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This thing looks like an oversized prop to make normally sized people look like Hobbits or children. Of course when you see something like this in the convenience store, you have to try it! According to the manufacturer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, the 568 calorie \u00e2\u20ac\u0153King\u00e2\u20ac\u009d versions are almost double the 328 calorie regular version. With the increase in size comes an increase in water to be added, up to half a liter versus the 300 or so needed for the standard. The wait time remains the same. Taste-wise, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as good (or as bad, if you will) as the regular version. According to the website, the toppings were supposed to be kanikama<\/em> (artificial crab) and other fish paste products, squid, cabbage, green onion, and egg. There was flat, white stuff that looked like squid, but I think it was the inner leaves of the kanikama. The only chewy squid-like substance had the purple outer skin of octopus, and I had a piece that I swear had a tentacle sucker. Maybe squid and octopus are lumped together for allergy labeling purposes. The nostalgic thing for me was the foamy dehydrated dried egg that disappeared from the USDM versions of cup noodle to be replaced with corn of the same color in the late 1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. The website further states that the soup base is pork, asari<\/em>, and oyster based. I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a fan of all ramen, including cup-instant and semi-instant. Of course these aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as good as something from a good shop, but they all have their place. Even the nastiest instant ramen will bring back some dirtbag college memory. Nasty this one isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. It is one of the better cup ramen that I have had. There was a spicy curry one that I had once that tasted better, but had soup that was unappealingly thick. Go relive your misspent youth and get full at the same time!<\/p>\n

Three out of four grunge-monkeys<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/p>\n

226-yen<\/p>\n

More pictures after the break<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t find anything large enough to hold the lid closed, so I used a netbook.<\/p>\n

BTW, it is interesting that the Nissin<\/em> website has full disclosure as to the country of origin and the location of processing for the ingredients in their products. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bigass chart and is put right out there for you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no hiding behind krapp like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153assembled in the USA\u00e2\u20ac\u009d like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all come accustomed to seeing, or a certain lock company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> American flag picture with no words on the front of the package, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153made in China\u00e2\u20ac\u009d printed on the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This thing looks like an oversized prop to make normally sized people look like Hobbits or children. Of course when you see something like this in the convenience store, you have to try it! According to the manufacturer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, the 568 calorie \u00e2\u20ac\u0153King\u00e2\u20ac\u009d versions are almost double the 328 calorie regular version. With the increase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,8,12,13,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-265","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8080,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions\/8080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}