Maruchan Seimen Uma Kara TanTan Ramen Noodle Bowl

I previously reviewed Maruchan's Seimen Hojun Koku Shoyu Bowl Noodle and am looking forward to trying this spicy TanTan noodle bowl.  This is another of Maruchan's deluxe ramen bowls in Japan that are all gold in color.  The bright colour definitely stands out and shows up on a shelf, beckoning you to pick it up to eat.  These noodle bowls use their dried, not fried noodles that they have spent a lot of time engineering to have a real noodle taste and consistency.

Nice looking bowl of ramen noodles on the lid of the bowl.  All of the gold really makes it look pretty fancy, and even the noodles look pretty beautiful. You can see that the soup has a nice spicy reddish tinge to it and that there is some ground meat and green onions to compliment the noodles.

3/4 view of the bowl.

Side of the bowl showing the nutritional information and warnings.  This noodle bowl still has 17.5 grams of fat, but the fat is coming from the soup base, not the noodles.  This is going to be a rich tasting and delicious soup.

Ingredients and directions for making the soup.

Side label.

Opening up the bowl reveals a disc of noodles, a dried toppings pouch, liquid tan tan / miso pouch, and a dried soup base pouch.  Lots of ingredients to add to the ramen soup.

Closeup of the dried noodle block.  You can tell it doesn't look fried and the noodle are roughly regular in side but a little thinner than fried noodles.

You can see sesame seeds, dried ground pork, and green onions in this satchet.

I added everything at the same time to save work.  You can see that is a nice amount of powdered soup and that the spicy miso paste is very substantial in volume.  This should make for nice soup.  The dried toppings are okay, but almost seem like the least of the three in terms of what you get.

After adding boiling water and letting the noodles rehydrate for 4 -5 minutes, the soup is ready.  The noodles have plumped up and mixing everything together makes for a thicker broth.

After waiting over four minutes, I peeled the lid back, you could already smell the rich taste of the spicy miso soup.  There is lots of umami in this soup.  It needed to be thoroughly mixed though, something that was easily done with a fork.  The noodles had all separated nicely from each other and it looked absolutely delicious.  My first taste of the soup confirmed the aromas coming from the bowl.  It was very tasty with a mild heat.  The soup base had a nice miso / slightly nutty taste that was great!  The ground meat wasn't very substantial, but it accompanied the perfect chewy noodles and the soup nicely.  I want another one of these, but don't have one. 

Closeup of the noodles.

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