Long Kow’s Crystal Noodle Soup (Spicy Tofu)
I found this soup at the Meijer and thought that it might be good. The packaging was amazing at least. After getting in my car and looking through the food, it occurred to me that I ought to see the nutrition information just for laughs.
I may have had a heart attack.
Instant noodles almost always have more sodium content than you really should intake, and many are double serving sized packages to begin with. This stuff is worse. 85% of your 2,000 calorie diet’s DV is contained in this one cup. That, for those wondering, is 2.04 grams. I use the gram measurement for emphasis. Grams.
So with all that salt inside, it must be delicious, right? Eh. I’m glad I tried this stuff at home instead of at work because I would have been making an emergency lunch break to get real food. It’s not that the flavour is bad, but more that the texture of slimy crystal noodles isn’t really palatable to me. I’ve had plenty of dishes with these sorts of noodles in them, but most of them aren’t slimy. Gross. The flavour itself isn’t really bad. Having blocks of tofu is a terribly good idea for instant soup, and I wish more would do it. Maybe I should start buying dried tofu to go with regular noodle bowls instead.
By golly, I think I’ve learned something from this experiment!