My Curry Buldak prep ritual
4So I take back my previous dismissal of Curry Buldak as being good but inferior in every way to the Cheese Buldak. It is now my favorite and the Cheese one is “good but”. Here’s my favorite way to prepare the Curry one because I want a Hochi icon if Meh ever secures the rights:
- Put 0.6L hot water in the kettle and start it boiling.
- While the water is boiling, break up the ramen noodles into chunks that will fit into my bowl. Do this before opening the bag so noodles don’t go flying everywhere.
- Open the bag and dump contents into the bowl. Set aside the sauce packet. Throw away the flakes packet.
- Once water is boiling, place bowl of noodles into the sink and pour all water into bowl. Cover with a napkin.
- Put bowl in corner of sink and slip sauce packet between the bowl and the wall of the sink so it gets nice and warm. Makes it easier to get out of the packet too.
- Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Drain water.
- Add sauce and mix well.
- Add ritz crackers (a few at a time) and mix them in to coat them in the sauce.
- Gotta eat the cracker with some noodles on it. Bon Appetit!
It’s actually a bit more involved, but that’s the basic idea. My wife now loves Buldak because I always keep the sink clean for when I want a bowl.
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I heartily recommend getting a couple of these, even though they will interfere with your method of heating the sauce packet…
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Similar ones are available at a lot of Asian groceries, usually for less than the Amazon price. (At least, around here they’re cheaper.)
@werehatrack That seems way too big to eat out of. One of the goals of my ritual is as few dishes as possible. The bowl I’m referring to is a bowl from our dinnerware set.
@mikey They make many sizes.
@werehatrack but what advantage does it offer over another bowl? Does it make it noodlier or something?
@mikey The contents stay hot longer, making it easier to get tender noodles.
What don’t you like about the flakes packet?
@xobzoo it just doesn’t do much
@mikey @xobzoo I’m retired and don’t do much. Does that mean you don’t like me?
@phendrick @xobzoo It’s no shame to be a terrible seasoning but it’s no great honor either.
@mikey @phendrick @xobzoo I am 100% in favor of @phendrick-free soup.
@mikey @werehatrack @xobzoo
Free soup? Not from me.
But I like pea soup (unless I’m driving).
@phendrick
@troy ewww
@mikey Do you drain out all the water? I’m always varying whether it’s mostly a noodle bowl or a little more soup-ish. I like the Ritz tip, I’ll try that next time.
@dave nearly all of it. I don’t mind a tsp or two in there because the moisture helps the sauce transfer to the crackers.
@dave @mikey I drain about 80%. I like it a little saucy saucy. And the thing I love about Buldak is when they say spicy… they don’t F around. When most companies say spicy, they mean ‘we added a pinch of chili powder’. When Buldak says it, they mean have a glass of milk ready
Sorry, forgot to take a “before” picture.
Someone recently had a ‘recipe’ where they added milk and sliced chicken to the curry Buldak. I’d love to get a look at that again - my curry just arrived
@Screenplayer1 I did it with kewpie mayo and chicken. And I’d do it again. A perfect 5/7 would recommend.
Prep kind of like here–ditch most of the water, add the sauce packet and some kewpie mayo. Depending on how creamy you want it, you could go as much as 1:1 with the sauce. Do more if you want, I’m not your boss. I aimed for a touch more curry than mayo by eye. Stir until it’s all combined with the noodles and then stir in chicken. Enjoy.
I got the idea from Reddit after googling Buldak curry flavor.