Today is an extremely horrible cheat day for me.

Hahaha... And health activists and vegans would have cringed to see this post.

These days even with cheat days I try to stay on the fresh food cooking as much as I can recently, but today I saw something at Village Grocer that stroke my curiosity.

Indomee was once (and actually still is) most Malaysians ultimate quick fix meal, especially for students

I remembered during my uni days Malaysians who flew across the seas would bring at least one box of Indomee with them (or Maggie Mee for some and Cintan Mee for others) especially freshmen. This was their survival food until they accustomed to the local food or figured out how to cook something better than instant noodles.

Most poorer students would have even asked family to send over or any other countrymen they know who so happened to be travelling over to bring along too, as it was still a lot cheaper than buying instant noodles in their studying country, even though some countries do restrict their "imported items"

Come to think of it, adult Malaysians still do that when they first travel abroad to unknown countries too..

Yes, @aaronleang, @joannewong and @elizacheng? 😆

But for this test product...

Yes... I do have some fresh produce to go along with it.

The disadvantage of only have one stove is that you have to do things sequentially, and so while the noodles were boiling I was getting these ready to be sautéd with butter and nothing else, since there are already MSG flavouring available.

At least it gives a nice aroma to it with that extra flavour, and sauté with butter brings allows the vegetables (and fungus) to retain their flavour

then comes the flavourings...

So apparently I have this salty red pack, some "dried salted egg yolk powder" and "chili powder in the aluminium pack with instructions on how to prepare the meal.

After the vegetables were sautéd I added the ingredients and mix them up before adding the drained boiled instant noodles.

The taste

Honestly there is no where close to an original salted egg paste flavour, but it could pass for first timers who has never tried salted egg yolk before. It isn't all bad and perhaps because I added fresh produce this has lowered the MSG effect that I feel less thirsty after the meal.

yes, most of the time you will feel extremely thirsty because of the MSG

Verdict?

Honestly if I had other choices of instant noodles / ramen (like Korean samyang) I would have chose those.

But it does have a kick of it and for those who are Indomee fans feel free to give it a go.

The best part is that Village Grocer Atria actually sells on separate pack at about MYR 1.39, and I find this good because they kill two birds with one stone: satisfy customers' curiosity and at the same time they earn more by selling it separately.

How about you? Would you be curious enough to try this out?

Have you encountered other slated egg instant noodles in the market and is worth recommending to try ?

If you have tried others before do share your experience at the comment below!

To end this post in case that there is a #cookwithus reference, I have my handle here. Yes. I cooked it, and I ate it. Haha

I hope you have enjoyed reading this review as much as I have enjoyed preparing it.

Until Then

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