Not Spicy, But Also Spicy

On a recent sale, @goldnectar made a simple, straightforward demand:

Gimme some cheap snacks

Well, goldnectar, we’ll do you one better. Not cheap snacks, but rather, cheap MEALS!

What we have here are some creamy mushroom pasta bowls from everyone’s favorite producer of abusively spicy ramen. Not only are they high in protein and easy to make; they’re also feats of science. After all, how else are they able to get so much flavor out of a single ingredient?

According to the Amazon page:

That’s right! Each bowl has apparently been extracted from a single garbanzo bean!

Or does it go deeper than that? Is the entire stock of these bowls the product of some ungodly thing done to one chick pea somewhere out there??

Okay, obviously we’re joking. There are other ingredients. And you can see what they are by reading the nutritional information.

The bigger question is, do all those ingredients, you know, taste good?

Here’s what we learned from reading a few Amazon reviews.

Frances likes it:

This looks and tastes amazing. The sauce is thick and creamy.

shelley a. also likes it:

This is so yummy! I love mushrooms and the flavor is so rich. Not too much, but just right.

jenny maybe likes it a bit too much:

This is by far the best pasta I’ve eaten, and I mean it.

Seriously, jenny, if you’re happy, we’re happy, but you might need to get out more.

Nitasha McCluskey likes it as well and gives the most detailed review:

Hands down, one of the best cups of noodles I’ve ever had. All the others are really spicy. I LOVE spicy food. But sometimes it’s nice to just have a creamy bowl of noodles that’s not spicy. I amp up the creaminess by always adding a splash of heavy cream at the very end when it’s done microwaving and time to pour the “powder pack” inside and give it a good mix. Although it’s not spicy, it’s extremely flavorful.

Here, we get a direct statement of what the other reviews only implied: despite being from Samyang, this pasta isn’t spicy.

Which might be a selling point for some, but not for others. So we figured, why not do a little something for everyone? Hence why we’re also including two bottles of the Samyang Buldak Carbonara Hot Sauce. It’ll pack a nice bit of heat and taste great drizzled over your mushroom bowls (or anything else). And since it’s a bottle, you wimps who enjoy a bit of heat but not too much can add as little as you want!

(I’m talking to myself here, in case that wasn’t clear.)

Bon appetite, down the hatch.