Case of Ottogi Jin Ramen Mild Noodle Cups

Ottogi is a pretty big manufacturer of various food products in Korea.  They started with curry powder back in 1969 and have a wide variety of food stuffs for sale now.  I've even tried their retort pouch curry, but had never tried their famous Jin Ramen.  I was in H-Mart and saw these cute and great little cases of 6 noodle cups for sale - and they were the mild version.  The Shin Ramen from Nongshim is too spicy for me to have it often so I know I'd pass on a the spicy version of Jin Ramen too.  However, I was willing to give the mild spicy flavour a try and picked up a case.  This mildly spicy ramen has red pepper for the heat and is a soy sauce based soup.

Top of the case of noodles.  These cases are both compact, seem handy, and even come with six packages of teeny wood chopsticks under the cups.  You can just make out the chopsticks in the photo above.  All you need is hot water and you are ready to eat!

Bottom of the box with manufacturing and nutritional information.  These are made in Korea for export.  If you get a freshly arriaved case, they should be dated out a year or so.  You could throw one of these into the trunk or take it to work to have it handy.

A cup pulled out of the box along with the chopsticks.  These are like half-sized cup of noodles, and that means they are a little small for a lunch, but they are perfect for a snack or to supplement a sandwich.  Being half-size means half the fat and salt too.

Top of the Jin Ramen noodle cup.  You can tell it is mild as mild was blue in color and the spice was red.  It also says MILD!  The lid has a nicely balanced design with a yellow backtground highlighted with blue.  It is a nice design with bulue and white striping across the middle.  A nice looking bowl of noodles is shown on the lid.  Best part - there are some green onion, mushroom, and carrot toppings in the cup - kind of like the photo.

3/4 view of the cup.

Front of the cup.  It is mainly blue, with the bowl of noodles presently nicely against the background.  The Jin Ramen name is nicely highlight in white.

Nutritional information.

Ingredients and manufacturing information.

After I peeled the lid back to show the noodle block, I took out the soup powder satchet.  You can see some of the dehydrated veggies on top of the noodles.  There isn't a lot, but it is nice to have the veggies present.  The cup is a nice quality paper cup that is double walled to let you hold it and hold in the heat better.

Added the soup powder on top of the noodles.  I added boiling water, closed the lid, and waited three minutes.

The ready to eat noodle soup.

After peeling the lid off, I stirred the noodles and soup to mix it well.  There was a pleasant soy sauce aroma with a bit of the red pepper to it.  The veggies and and the ramen noodles had rehydrated nicely.  At three minutes, the noodles are al dente and have a good chew.  Another minute wouldn't hurt them either and it really depends on how you like your noodles.  The soup was mildly spicy, but not too spicy, and you had good flavour from the soy sauce based soup which also has beef extract.  I quite like this soup and the texture of the noodles.

Since buying that first case, I've bought it a few more times and it is going to be one of the cup noodles I'm going to keep in stock in my cupboard from now on.  This one is a winner that is great for late night snacking and just to have in general.

Closeup of the noodles.  You can see some shitake mushroom, green onion, and carrot on it.

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