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Buldak is such a popular brand that its fans try to seek out every single flavor that has ever existed to make sure they can try them all. On Reddit, I’ve been maintaining an active list of all known flavors and their status. You can find that list below, along with links to my reviews of each one I’ve tried. This list does not include offshoot products like tteokbokki, dumplings, or hot sauce, but rather only focuses on noodle products.
(Updated July 31, 2025)
Read more: The Big List of Buldak
Maruchan Mennosuke Tategata Kamodashi Soba is a neat flavor that I got out of the final ZenPop box last year. Buckwheat soba noodles with a duck and bonito broth! That’s not something you really see in the USA at all. Will it be gamey like duck? Smoky and fishy like bonito? Read on to see how this goes.
Read more: Review: Maruchan Mennosuke Tategata Kamodashi SobaNissin Cup Noodles Turkey Dinner Flavor arrives just in time for the November holiday season, and I am jumping back into video reviews, starting with this one because it’s a limited-time offering. This was released alongside the rebranded Pumpkin Pie version, which is identical to the Pumpkin Spice flavor from a few years back. I reviewed that in episode 43, so anyone curious about it can check that out.
Read more: Noodle Journey Episode 201: Nissin Cup Noodles Turkey Dinner Flavor
And now we come to Chef Woo Baja Chili Flavor Ramen, which is the last of these protein-added plant-based Chef Woo cups I have in my possession (aside from some Ramen Express by Chef Woo products, which I’ll review another time). While I can’t say I’m a huge fan of their noodles, they’ve certainly been passable, and I very much enjoyed the broth in the Spicy Tequila Lime flavor I just reviewed. This Baja Chili Flavor also looks promising, so hopefully this little review marathon closes out on a high note.
Read more: Review: Chef Woo Baja Chili Flavor Ramen
I’m moving to the next item in my Chef Woo marathon queue, which is Chef Woo Spicy Tequila Lime Flavor Ramen. This one’s pretty interesting to me, considering I can’t recall ever seeing a tequila & lime flavored instant noodle before. Is this essentially going to be a margarita-flavored ramen? Because I’m not sure how to feel about that…
Read more: Review: Chef Woo Spicy Tequila Lime Flavor Ramen
Here’s the review for Chef Woo Braised Beef Flavor Ramen, hot off the heels of their Roasted Chicken flavor review I just conducted. This is basically the same schtick: a plant-based cup of noodles with added protein, medium amount of sodium, no MSG – all of the “healthy” stuff newer American ramen companies like to advertise in their products. The Roasted Chicken flavor wasn’t too bad, so hopefully this Braised Beef flavor is also successful.
Read more: Review: Chef Woo Braised Beef Flavor Ramen
After getting into a brief analysis about this brand’s potential financial issues in the October 2025 news post, I thought it was appropriate to do a little marathon of the handful of Chef Woo products I currently have in my stash, starting with Chef Woo Roasted Chicken Flavor Ramen. (And just in case you didn’t know, Chef Woo is a brand name, not a real person.) Like the Gordon Ramsay flavors I reviewed back on the YouTube channel, this is a plant-based ramen product with added protein, this time with a simple roasted artificially chicken flavored broth. This cup is marketed as a “healthy” vegan alternative to your typical chicken ramen cups, but is it any good? Let’s find out.
Read more: Review: Chef Woo Roasted Chicken Flavor Ramen
This Yamadai Sugomen Green Onion Miso Ramen is the last review in the series of products picked up for me in Guam, and I saved it until the end because it’s the largest and, frankly, most exciting one to me that my coworker brought back. This is a gigantic noodle bowl from Yamadai, one of the most revered noodle manufacturers in Japan. A couple reviews ago, I actually tried Yamadai for the first time, although it was a Korean-style kimchi ramen rather than a more traditional Japanese flavor profile like this one. If this one is half as good as that kimchi flavor was, I’ll be ecstatic.
Read more: Review: Yamadai Sugomen Green Onion Miso RamenHere’s all the noteworthy noodle news you may have missed in October 2025! While last month’s news post was pretty substantial, October has been more of a quiet month. There’s a new Canadian noodle company that just launched their first product, a new American noodle company dominating social media, and some news and speculation about the future of the brand Chef Woo.
Read more: Noodle News Roundup: October 2025
I’ve found that a lot of Japanese products that promise spice don’t always deliver on the spice, even though they taste good. Hopefully this Nissin Cup Noodle Spicy variety brings the heat and the flavor in equal amounts. This is the second-to-last item brought back for me from Guam at Don Don Donki, so we’re getting very close to the end of that assortment of noodles. Nissin’s official product description touts this cup as being loaded with the largest amount of roasted chili peppers ever in a Cup Noodle product, plus the sourness of kimchi, flavor of garlic, and richness of miso. Sounds like a fantastic combination!
Read more: Review: Nissin Cup Noodle Spicy
This Yamadai New Touch Original Kimchi Ramen is the fifth product from my Guam review pile, and is certainly one of the more interesting ones. This is, I think, a first for me: a Japanese manufacturer making a Korean kimchi stew instant noodle. And not just any Japanese manufacturer… Yamadai is one of the premier Japanese instant noodle brands, with a few dozen premium bowl products spread out across its various product lines. Read on for more info and the review!
Read more: Review: Yamadai New Touch Original Kimchi Ramen