It's midnight, and I finally decided to go on and try the snapdragon instant pho. This was originally supposed to just be an edit for my previous blog post, but boy do I got some stuff to say about this.
To make things more awkward, I don't have internet right now, so I'm currently writing up this blog post on my phone, over a browser. So imagine a guy, at midnight, right after eating instant noodles, just doing a write up on his touchscreen just to shit post about the late night snack he just devoured. That's the mood we we are setting for our stage this evening.
So inside the paper bowl after you peel back the lid are the rice noodles and 3 packets, one is a soup base, one is the dehydrated herbs, and one is the flavoring oil. Standard stuff for instant noodles. The instructions say to add the soup base and the herbs into the bowl and add boiling water, and right away it smelled delicious. You let it cook for 3-5 minutes and then you add the flavor oil drizzle to taste. All good noodle soups have a oil layer on top to slurp the noodles through. So already I was excited, this bowl of instant pho was being constructed properly.
And then we go in for a taste
I went in raw for the first slurp, no oil, just to see what it tasted like before I decided how much more it might need. And it was pretty good instant pho. Most instant pho is really flavorful but with no balance, this was the same, but the flavor was good, tasted like pho. Could use a little bit of sriracha and hoisin sauce. Added some chopped green onions to this and some sriracha, I figured I could have fun with it, the base is nice, I could dress it up now into something enjoyable. Those addictions made the soup so much more comforting, tasted like home. And then i made the grave mistake of adding the flavoring oil that came with it...
Now all I could taste from my bowl of disappointment was ginger. That oil overpowered everything else in it with the actually really flavorful flavor of ginger. I should mention now that I hate ginger, galangal?? I still ate it all up, we don't waste food around here, but man, that was a fatal mistake, and I'm never using that thing again
Final score: meh/10
Without the oil score: like 6.7, pretty good/10