Instant Noodle (Black Garlic Oil / Sesame) l 出前一丁 (黑蒜油/麻油）

Made in HK version always taste better than the local version (made in Indonesia)

Try it for your own! Even in HK Cha Chaan Teng has to pay HKD to upgrade to Nissin noodle

Cooking tips:

When your noodles are done cooking for the typical 3 minutes, you’re supposed to pour just the water into the bowl with the spice packet contents first. Then you add the noodles. The black garlic oil packet goes in last and looks/smells really cool, as expected. Once you mix it in it kind of speckles the tonkotsu broth with small bits of oil.

The broth and the oil really shine here. I tasted this ramen naked and liked it so much that I decided I really didn’t want to hide these flavors with some kind of hot sauce or something. It added a lot of umami in my opinion. I think I’d like to keep this ramen in stock in the pantry for random cravings.