Remember this…

I remember this! They used to sell them in the school canteen in little packets at 10 sen each, if I’m not mistaken, and inside, one could find something like uncooked instant noodles coated with some kind of seasoning but there wasn’t any necessity to cook them – they could be eaten just like that as a snack. I also remember that they used to advertise it on television during the children’s shows. I think there was a blue Sesame Street-like monster that would open a packet and eat the contents and then it would say in its growling husky voice, “Maaaa…meeeee!!!!”

However, I do not remember ever buying their instant noodles, for some reason or other but the other day, I found some in the pantry…

– my missus must have bought them – so I decided to take a packet and cook it to give it a try.

It was all right – like any other instant noodles, chicken flavour…

…but what I do not understand is why they label it as “ayam kampung” which in English, means “village chicken”. These would be the ones allowed to roam around the houses in the kampung, pecking at any food they can find and fed on corn unlike those commercially-farmed ones that have been fattened on chemical chicken feed and I hear that they also give them hormone or whatever injections to stimulate growth and things like that.  Thus, if you choose to buy one of the supposedly more nutritious and organic kampung chicken at the market for your herbal soup, it will cost you a lot more than the normal ones…which makes me wonder, though I doubt it very much, whether there is any of such chicken used in the manufacture of these instant noodles.

As for the taste, I am pretty sure it would be nice with extra ingredients added or with a bit of ginseng and wolfberries like what I cooked sometime ago with the made-in-Sibu Mee Daddy, chicken flavour…

I had a post on this a long time ago and I said it then and I will say it again now – that if you are feeling lethargic or tired, you can try this – it will certainly help boost your energy and make you more energetic…and will certainly save you the trouble of having to steam your own ginseng chicken soup for this same purpose.

Go ahead! Give it a try and see if it works on you…