Pro tip for ramen with a packet of seasoning. Only use like 1/4 of that seasoning. It will still taste awesome and you wont feel like shit after you eat it.
I’ve had truly instant ramen when my friend’s brother came back from Japan. Dude brought a bunch of cool shit back, including a few cases of self heating ramen and a carton of self lighting cigarettes. Japan is like 500 years in the future.
Ah I remember that scene-- I just didn’t think it was cheap enough to actually make sense to use in the real world. I wonder where they’re sold bc I don’t think I’ve run across one in the wild.
Wait, you’re saying you can get the same “nutrition to cost” value out of wet beans? I assumed you meant dry beans (and this would need to soak and actually cook them).
This might just be location specific, but wet beans are much more expensive (in terms of calories per dollar) compared to ramen every where I’ve seen (lived in South West and Mid Atlantic of US).
Are you saying that’s not the case where you’re at?
Different people have different tastes, as they say. I do not like beans in general, but I am fine with refried beans and black beans in Mexican food and beans in chili. And I guess if chick peas count as a bean, since they’re also called garbanzo beans, I enjoy hummus and falafel. But like a side of lima beans or whatever? Bleah. And green beans are just disgusting to me.
One of my favorite meals is beans, sausage, and rice with some hot sauce mixed in. It’s such a nice comfort food, and it’s incredibly cheap and pretty nutritious.
Off course ramen is going to always be easy to cook, but ramen stops being the best choice when you start getting scurvy, and your skin is shit, and you don’t have energy.
Tomato soup with kidney beans can make it way more filling and gives the taste more body. Other less-western combinations with tomato work as well; like rice / beans, some sweet pepper, onion / tomato mixed sauce (perhaps even add apple or banana).
Otherwise stuff like Burritos and Chili recipes are always great.
Thanks, I want something that’s like 90% beans, not just something that have beans in it like burrito and chili. Like those “English breakfast” beans in red sauce.
But actually though. Spicy Red beans and rice is delicious, black bean burgers, anything with chick peas like hummus wraps or chick pea fritters, vegetable tacos and burritos with black beans… there are loads of things.
I very much like red beans and rice when it’s particularly spicy. Can add some sausage for heartiness too
Get a better quality instant noodle from an Asian market. Put frozen dumplings and veggies in it while bringing to a boil. Crack an egg in there right after putting the noodles.
Through very little effort, you’ve leveled up your Ramen to close to restaurant quality bachelor food.
Last time I passed through Taipei they had a water dispenser by the restrooms that had options for searing hot and “cold” water (it was lukewarm at best). I’d imagine Japan would have something similar.
I’ve had it and it’s not the same. I recommend you try the Raoh. It’s a true Japanese tonkotsu broth. Or as true as you can get in an instant ramen anyway.
Indomie. This stuff cooks up more like a lo mein than the normal instant ramen (noodles floating in broth), but if you want to try something different:
Barbeque Chicken is the good one (it’s like Korean BBQ)
Comes with 3 separate sauce packs, dry seasoning, and fried onion - boil the noodles, strain all the water out, mix all the packets together except the onion, then add them to the noodles. Mix the onion in right before serving (it’ll get squishy otherwise).
The Cup Noodles stir fry line has been my favorite recently. It’s not anything fancy, but I like how you don’t end up with a broth when you’re done with the noodles.
I know this is memes, but instant noodles weren't invented to prevent starvation. On launch they were actually many times more expensive than fresh noodles.
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