What: Kabuto Noodles miso ramen (£2.45)
Where from: Waitrose and quality delis (kabutonoodles.com)
Taste assessment: On first glance, the Kabuto Noodles blow all the other competitors in the instant noodle market out of the water — if for nothing else its attempt to use a quote from Sun Tzu and paraphrasing it so that it applies to noodles: “Without knowledge of noodles, one will ultimately have no military victories”, not to mention naming the brand after the helmet of a Samurai. Be it a witty play on words and history, or shameless commercialism, the noodles themselves were actually of restaurant quality and texture … it was the solid green muck, or rather “miso, soy and vegetables”, which tasted more like cheap pesto, that would have really angered Sun Tzu.
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