Another thing I picked up to try recently:

It’s GF and billed as pho-like, which sounded promising. Glad to spot some type of safe cup noodles, so I figured how bad could it be.

A little while ago I was freezing and very low on spoons, and I needed some hot food ASAP. So it seemed like a decent time to try those cup noodles.

That was the most disappointing soup experience since the last British-made cup noodles I tried. (Even after adding some salt, because if they’re pushing it as “Healthy” here I am going to want more salt.)

I probably should have looked at the ingredients more closely before buying them:

Yeah, no wonder that tasted weirdly candied, with freaking lactose and sugar as the next ingredients after the noodles. 😦 Even though I didn’t want to finish the broth, now I’m hoping it wasn’t enough lactose to send my digestive system into meltdown.

No wonder it didn’t taste like straight sucrose sweetness, though. The effect was very odd, which was what made me look at the ingredients more closely.

The flavor blend was very strange and not at all pho-like besides the sickly sweet factor. Not sure what I would even compare it to. It seemed like maybe they were confused and going for a pseudo-Thai theme, but didn’t quite get there either.

This also had an excessive amount of not the same kind of weird dried sweet red pepper in it as that other brand, but some unpleasant candied-tasting type I hadn’t encountered before. And I usually like sweet pepper flavor in moderation.

The noodles themselves were not bad, and I ate most of them in spite of the broth. (Which mostly went down the sink.) Because I really did need food, and paid like £1.50 for that cup o’ sadness 😵

Feeling pretty queasy now, and I’m just hoping it’s not from lactose overdose. At least that wouldn’t shoot my blood sugar up more, what with not being able to digest it. I really was not looking for a hefty dose of sugar on top of the rice noodles, though.

Not planning to buy anything else from that brand. This flavor put me off that much.

Though, as a bonus, their marketing would maybe be enough on its own. Maybe that’s just what happens when Brits playing samurai try to make instant pho.

(No, I don’t think they would appreciate any “noodle wisdom” I would share about now.)