Store Purchased: Sunny Supermarket, 747 Don Mills Road Unit#60,North York, Ontario, Canada M3C 1T2
Price: 2.99CAD, Multipack (5 servings)
Ingredients:
Noodle: Wheat flour, Palm Oil, Starch, Salt, Mixed garlic Flavour, Flavour, Thickener, Acidity Regulator, Humectant
Soup Powder: Flavour, salt, MSG, red pepper powder, sugar, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soybean paste powder, spices
Vegetable: dried chives, dried mushroom, dried carrot, dried red pepper
This is the KING OF DRIED RAMEN! It has long been a staple of my household, from my teenage years throughout college to my house now. The texture and taste of this product is the best that it gets for dried ramen in Canada. It is also larger in size than typical dried ramens.
This particular package, I believe, has a slightly different formula from other packages sold in Canada. I have been told that, depending on the manufacturer, Shin Ramyun tastes different in every country. All the Koreans I know swear that Shin ramyun tastes better in Korea. This Shin Ramyun was manufactured in Shanghai, China. I have also bought packages, in Toronto, manufactured in America and Korea. I will compare the ingredients, if I get a hand on the others.
On a taste test, I find this one a bit spicier and more umami-y (that's not a word.) than the North American version.
Interesting Factoid: Shin Ramyun is a luxury good smuggled into North Korea
"South Korean "Shin Ramyun" first came to the attention of ordinary North Koreans in the early 21st Century after a variety called "Pochangmacha" was included in a South Korean aid donation.
A big market breakthrough occurred in 2004, when an explosion occurred in Yongcheon. South Korea sent Shin Ramyun in bulk as a part of its emergency aid donation, leading to the appearance of this type of noodles in the jangmadang.
The amount of Shin Ramyun which came into North Korea at the time exceeded 30,000 boxes. Since one box contained 20 packages, 600,000 packages entered the country. Among these, a majority went to the military, but the amount which trickled down from the military to the jangmadang was significant.
Once Shin Ramyun’s excellence became widely known among the privileged classes, people started giving it to superiors as gifts, and once merchants spotted this burgeoning opportunity for profit Shin Ramyun began to cross the border regularly and appear in the jangmadang in significant quantities."
-Source: DailyNK.com
tag: nong shim, ramen, shin ramyun, spicy, nongshim, bowl noodle
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