Cheap Eats (Asian): Nong Shim Udon Bowl

I bought an issue of Giant Robot last year, and it was the first issue I had read in a few years. I've been an avid reader since the Maggie Cheung issue, and kind of forgot to subscribe. I will next time around, but I always like the food articles they have, especially on various packaged ramen. I've done it myself, where I'll test a random ramen and see if it's good or not. I'm a saimin guy, but if ramen is there, I'll take it. A few have been good, there was one I had that was too hot for me at the time.

My sister is always looking for stuff to bring to work, and she one day tells me to try out a ramen bowl she bought made by Nong Shim, the udon bowl:



Awww man, the udon is good, the broth is good, not too salty but not weak. I could eat two of these in one sitting, and cheap too, about 99 cents each. It doesn't taste like something in a pre-packaged plastic bowl, definitely a lot better than that 25 for a dollar bargains they have at the regular market (and those I avoid). This Nong Shim Udon bowl was at the Vietnamese store, so when I go there again, I'll have to check and see if they sell a box of them. I know they do for the kim chee variety, so I'm hopeful there is one for the udon.