The best…

I’ve tried their Singapore-style nyonya mee siam ready-to-cook sauce once and I loved it…but at over RM10.00 a box, it wasn’t really affordable for the likes of me and there wasn’t really all that much to go round. I think if I were to cook it again, I would need at least two boxes so there would be lots of the delicious gravy to pour all over the mihun.

Then, I saw some photos that my cousin(s) shared on Facebook of their instant noodles so I got the impression that they must be good. I went back to the supermarket where I got the sauce but they did not have it…and I heard that they got them from the branch of a Sibu supermarket in Kuching so I headed there to check it out but they did not have it either.

My friend in KL bought a packet to try…and she said she would buy for me when she comes back for the holidays next month but since my niece would be coming back to Sibu from Singapore for my MIL’s birthday, I decided to ask her to get me a packet to try simply because it was listed in this website as the top 2 of the 10 best instant noodles of 2013…and she got me these…

She could not get the laksa but managed to get the No. 2 on the list, the curry flavour.

Of course, I wasted no time in cooking a packet of that to try. Inside, there are two packets of seasoning…

– one’s the paste and the other looks like santan (coconut milk) in powder form.

After all the warnings that people have been sharing on Facebook about instant noodles, I boiled them first and drained away the water…

I don’t know if it was psychological but as I was doing so, I actually thought I caught a whiff of the smell of wax, candle wax.

I cooked the gravy and poured that over the noodles and added some shredded chicken and omelette strips on top and served, garnished with chopped spring onion and thinly-sliced chili…

…before sitting down to enjoy the fruit of my labour.

And now the moment of truth! Well, I would say it was nice…something like what I had here but a bit nicer as it seemed to have a bit more flavour and that made it tastier. The problem I had with it was that there was so much in one packet and it was a bit too lemak (rich)…and halfway through that big bowl, I was already beginning to feel the “law of diminishing returns” and did not enjoy it that much anymore. Perhaps it would a lot better if that one packet had been shared by two or three people at a time.

My missus cooked the fish soup la mian and I tried a bit of that. It was nice too – kind of a mild kind of fish noodle soup but my missus said the seasoning was milky – perhaps it is something like those Chinese fish head noodles with the milky soup that are quite popular over in the peninsula but I would not know for sure as I have never tried that. She also cooked the aglio olio to try and said it was just so-so…but that’s a different brand, not the same one.

So, there you are! I’ve tried it and this is solely and entirely my personal opinion about it and others may beg to differ if they choose to do so. After all, as I always say, one man’s meat is another man’s poison – to each his own…

In the meantime, my missus went and bought this made-in-Thailand brand from our local supermarket here, the green curry flavour…

I guess I am not that adventurous and would not tread on unfamiliar grounds so usually, I would not go and buy anything that has not been tried and tested by others but then again, didn’t they say that those made-in-Singapore brands are very nice?

Anyway, since we have that in the house, I thought I might as well give it a try…so I cooked the noodles and obediently poured away the water. Having done that, I cooked the soup with the seasoning and oil provided…and served it with some homemade fish balls and a fried egg, garnished with a bit of chopped spring onions…

Ooooo…it was nice, VERY nice and a bit spicy too! I like!!! The best part of course would be the fact that it came in a pack of 5 for only RM4.00 something so that would work out to around 90 sen per packet. Cheap eh?

Here! Come and try some…

Slurpssss!!!! LOL!!!