Nissin Chicken Snack Ramen Review - Zero Minutes to Prepare

Eating instant ramen without adding boiling water to make noodle soup isn't an original idea. Deep fried instant noodles are pretty much cooked already.  The deep frying drives out all the moisture in the noodles to make them shelf stable.  This frying also makes them crispy and potato chip-like in crunch.  Not all fried instant noodles lend themselves to being potato chip alternatives, but certain ones with thinner noodles are not too bad.  Noodles from Mama in Thailand and the original Nissin Chicken Ramen from Japan are versions that work well a chips. Chicken Ramen is even has the soup base flavouring already on the noodle.

Here is my review of the original Chicken Ramen, which is also the world's first instant ramen.  It is also available in Japan as a cool instant noodle bowl with a freeze-dried egg brick.

Chicken Ramen snack pack.  I like how they really played up their yellow chick mascot as the face occupies the whole package!  It even says 0 minutes to prepare.

Back of the package.

There are other brands of instant noodle type snacks out there already so Nissin isn't doing something original.  Varieties such as Baby Chip Star have been out for years as ramen snacks in multiple flavours.  However, I think it was a good move for Nissin to make a version of their Chicken Ramen as a snack as people probably already consumed it that way.  They did tweek the flavouring a bit so it isn't as salty as the original which made a bowl of soup.  I enjoyed eating my ramen snack and it isn't anything too crazy.

The chick says you can either take bites/break off bits from the ramen block to eat or crush it up in the bag to eat it.

It comes as a noodle block.

Closeup of a piece of the noodle snack.  Looks like instant noodles!

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