Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor with Bachan's Sweet & Spicy Barbecue Sauce Review | Noodle Journey
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Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor with Bachan’s Sweet & Spicy Barbecue Sauce Review | Noodle Journey

Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor with Bachan's Sweet & Spicy Barbecue Sauce is the second of three collaboration products between Nissin and Bachan's Japanese Barbecue Sauce that I'm reviewing, and for me I am now out of the familiar territory that I was in with the Original flavor, because I've never had the Sweet & Spicy sauce on its own before. The Original flavor paired very well with the beef broth, but my chief complaint about Bachan's Original has always been how sweet it leans. Is the "Sweet" in "Sweet & Spicy" going to be overkill for me? Read on and find out.

Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor with Bachan's Original Barbecue Sauce Review | Noodle Journey
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Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor with Bachan’s Original Barbecue Sauce Review | Noodle Journey

Today begins a trio of reviews of collaboration products between Nissin and Japanese barbecue sauce maker Bachan's. I figured I'd start with Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor with Bachan's Original Barbecue Sauce because it is the only flavor of Bachan's that Nissin is using that I've tried before. So thankfully I've got some familiarity with the special add-on sauce here and am not going into this totally blind. This is also the reason I gave the Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor Bowl a try in the last review - using that flavor as a baseline, hopefully I can explain a little better how the addition of Bachan's instead of Nissin's normal sauce packet changes the end result.

Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor Bowl Review | Noodle Journey
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Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor Bowl Review | Noodle Journey

I know what you're thinking: why am I reviewing something as pedestrian as the Nissin Top Ramen Beef Flavor Bowl? Well, I have my reasons, and they involve getting a proper baseline for the product before I review the Nissin x Bachan's Top Ramen bowls I mentioned in last month's news post. I've had the pack version of this flavor countless times in the past prior to starting the channel, but I've never had the bowl before. Imagine my surprise that this comes with an additional sauce packet, which is completely absent from the pack version.

A-Sha Meteor Noodles with Danzai Sauce Review | Noodle Journey
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A-Sha Meteor Noodles with Danzai Sauce Review | Noodle Journey

These are really interesting to me; A-Sha basically invented a new noodle shape! These A-Sha Meteor Noodles with Danzai Sauce are described as "3D" noodles and go on to say "Meteor Noodles are made using a special, dual blade to cut 3D ridges onto the noodle to allow for perfect sauce coating on every noodle strand for a maximum flavor experience in every bite." If you read my review on the A-Sha BT21 Galaxy Variety Noodle Box, you should know that these Meteor noodles appear to be the same as the "Universtar noodles" that came in that box. I'm super excited to give these a try with this sauce, so read on to learn more about the noodles and Danzai Sauce flavor.

Acecook Curry House CoCo Ichibanya Supervised Curry Ramen Review | Noodle Journey
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Acecook Curry House CoCo Ichibanya Supervised Curry Ramen Review | Noodle Journey

My coworker grabbed me another round of goodies from Guam on his most recent trip, and the one I'm most excited about trying is this brand-new Acecook Curry House CoCo Ichibanya Supervised Curry Ramen, so it gets the honor of being the inaugural review. Curry House CoCo Ichibanya is a popular curry restaurant chain from Japan that has several locations worldwide, including a few in the USA. Unfortunately, I don't live anywhere near any of them, so this cup is the closest I'm going to get to eating the real deal as of right now. I'm a sucker for instant noodle restaurant collaborations, so I have high hopes for this.

Dongwon Cheese Topokki Review | Noodle Journey
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Dongwon Cheese Topokki Review | Noodle Journey

Dongwon Cheese Topokki is the other Korean rice cake variety from this manufacturer that I found recently at Walmart, and given how delicious I thought the Spicy and Sweet flavor was, I figured I'd better try this one too so I know what to stock up on next time I find myself in a Walmart. This variety leans into one of the other more popular preparations of tteokbokki/topokki: a rich and mild chili, cream, and cheese sauce.