Myojo Nagasaki Chanpon Instant Noodle Bowl Review

This is a Nagasaki Chanpon or Chinese style noodle bowl I tasted some time ago. It is a noodle soup that is usually served with seafood, pork and various vegetables as toppings. This noodle bowl is discontinued as I'm late reviewing it, but better late than never.  Historically, Nagasaki (actually the island of Dejima) is one of the only ports open to limited foreign trading partners prior to the EDO period shutting down external contact.

Lid of the bowl.  It is very attractively designed with a half moon of a noodle bowl on the bottom half and a golden background on the top that shows a cityscape with stars at night.  Very pretty.

This has the Myojo black cat mascot and the the ramen vendor blowing his charmela horn to attact customers on the lid of the bowl. Like many noodle bowls, it is plastered with Kanji and Hirigana characters to tell you about the contents.  The characters describe "Nagasaki Chanpon, Thick Chewy Noodles that mix well with the soup, and it needs 5 minutes in boiling water.

3/4 view.  Carries on with bright yellow colour on the side.

There's the black cat again!

Nutritional and allergen information.

Ingredients and manufacturers information.

Preparation directions.  These are non-fried noodles that take 5 minutes to hydrate in boiling water.

Contents of the bowl.  Veggies and other toppings are scattered on top of the noodles

Soup base powder.

Seasoning oil packet.

You can see bits of cabbage, pink kamaboko fish cake, carrots, tree fungus (brown stuff).

There was a slightly nutty seafood smell to the soup base powder which contains a creaming agent, seafood extract and various spices and starch. After hydrating there was a mild seafood aroma. The noodles were slightly thicker, firm, and chewier because of this.  The aroma oil was fragrant and savoury, adding to the intensity of the flavour.  The broth was creamy coloured and the oil did add depth.  It was a good soup which had both seafood and I wondered if there was a vegetable component to the broth too.

The flavour oil added in.

Closeup with cabbage and fish cake.

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