Hello girlfriends and welcome to another episode of Tried and Tested!
Today we are going to be trying out some interesting instant food!
This is an instant self boiling rice pack
that includes everything you need including distilled water!
You don't even need a hot water! You don't need to boil water to make this thing work!
It's all in here!
Okay so it comes with this thing on top, it's got instructions like that,
which to be honest I still don't understand.
It also comes with a fork!
This is your entire meal in one box.
You don't have to bring anything! This is insane!
This is a meat.
This is the heating pack.
And here is the distilled water!
First I am going to put the ingredients at the bottom,
and then, open the seal of the rice,
now we open the heating pack,
and put it here like this,
and I pour it in here,
activate this heating pack and then,
put the rice on top and close it all up!
What's a steam opener?
Okay, I have to open a steam opener on the cover.
Honestly I do not know I'm assuming it's this.
Ow! Ow!
Oh my god, oh my god! Help!
What's going on! Ow!
It's so hot! Oh my god
Oh my goodness! This is not supposed to happen.
Okay I just-
That's not going to cook guys.
That is not going to cook.
This is really scary.
I think I need another tissue box because this might melt
Oh my god.
The steam is coming out from everywhere!
It shouldn't be coming out. That means it's not sealed.
15 minutes! It's not even closing!
I closed the lid in time,
but then I belatedly found out that I am supposed to open the steam opener!
And I was like, where is the steam opener?
So I opened it, and then I couldn't close it back in time
before that thing started boiling and
wow that's fast and it's super hot!
So I'm holding it in place because it needs to cook for another 15 minutes.
Hold on, I'm just gonna -
And I want to make sure that all that steam gets caught in there
because otherwise it's not going to boil
If the steam opener had not been opened, this thing would have exploded
'cause the force at which it came out, it just went "graragrara biush"!
It would have just exploded.
It would really -
So if you do buy this, just note that the steam opener is
this tiny little hole on the top.
So open that before you seal it.
It's been about 15 minutes,
so it should be cooked by now.
These are the ingredients, they're supposed to go on top of the rice.
Oh wow!
Honestly, this does not look appetizing to me at all.
Just the colors,
look a bit strange.
Right now the picture looks like this, and that's what the food looks like.
I mean I would say most of the time for this kind of food I never expect the
actual thing to look like the picture.
But this really looks very different.
This is a lot darker than this.
I was not expecting potatoes,
and I do not see any beans!
But you know the general idea is there, it's meat and rice.
Okay let's try this.
Oh!
That's actually not bad!
It's quite tasty.
it's a bit spicy, it's slightly tangy.
Got a bit of a kick to it.
Okay let me try the (meat)
So I just ate the meat,
the meat is actually not too hard
and it's not too soft either, it's not mushy at all.
It still got great texture and this gravy,
is really tasty
It makes you keep wanting to go back for more!
It's like a proper hot meal,
so I think that that is pretty amazing.
Okay, so for the packaging,
10 out of 10, for the food
8 out of 10,
so I guess it's a 9?
This is an instant mini hotpot for lazy people.
It really says "lazy", see!
This is "懒", in Chinese that means lazy.
You just need water everything is inside already and they've got instructions at the back!
Wow! Oh my goodness! What is going on here?
Wow! This is fantastic!
It's like Christmas in a box!
Alright, so this is the paste.
I think it's like the mala base if I'm not wrong.
And then I have to put in the noodle.
Oh wow!
They showed pictures of vegetables and I absolutely was not expecting
real vegetables to come out of there.
So we got lotus root.
Wow! We have some black fungus,
and this one I'm not sure what this is.
Is it a potato?
Possibly.
Okay, and then I'm supposed to put in the sausage.
And then egg! There is even an egg!
Okay so now I'm supposed to pour in water.
Okay so I'm gonna put the heat pack in,
add the water and then put this hot pot on top
and close it.
So it's starting to steam now and I am supposed to keep it covered for 15 minutes.
So this is how it looks when it's done properly.
Okay so we waited for 15 minutes.
Are we ready for some mala hot pot?
And there's still some more oil for us to put in.
So this is supposed to be the finishing touch
Right let's let's mix it all up!
It really is like hot! The noodles are all cooked.
Wah! It's really got that mala color.
Bright red and oily.
Now I'm going to try the noodles.
Mmm good texture!
Oh! That's abit spicy.
Alright, let me try the black fungus.
That's so weird! 'cause it's like -
As I'm eating the black fungus I go "oh that's the right texture"
but it also feels a little bit slimy so I'm not sure...
I guess that's because of all the preserving maybe?
Okay, this is really funny right
because they are all starting to taste the same to me.
Just like mala. 'cause this thing is a hot!
My mouth is -
My tongue is like burning a little bit your tongue goes out a bit numb
Okay let me try this egg.
Yeah, alright it's not bad!
This kinda of taste like -
Oh I know, the Taiwanese have that iron quail eggs or something like that
so it's kind of like this too. Like preserved egg.
I think that this is really novel, that you can get mala hot pot
in this like disposable thing with the heating pack
that you can bring around with you
but it's just something about these vegetables that I'm not sure about
also I find it a little bit hard to tell which is what
because they are so preserved?
With the packaging and everything I think it's very innovative
and it's a lot of fun.
Yeah I guess a 6 out of 10?
This is okay, but I'm not I crazy about it, but it's okay.
This is freeze-dried minestrone soup.
All you need to do is add some boiling water and you get a piping hot bowl of soup
including veggies!
You don't get much like nutritional information
It's just Minestrone soup with broccoli
I think they are quite proud of this.
I would be too! How you put broccoli into instant soup!
I want to see this.
Wah! This does not look like food
It looks like some sponge thing.
So we're gonna try putting the water in
Ooooh
There really it's a broccoli in there!
It's like a flower!
This is amazing!
There is truly a whole broccoli in here!
It definitely tastes like minestrone soup.
It tastes good, it does not taste artificial.
I am going to try the star of the show! The broccoli!
The texture is still there!
Obviously not super crunchy like a fresh one,
but you heard that it was still crunching
there was a little bit more chewiness in the texture
I really cannot believe this is so good.
I would say that as an instant soup, it is very impressive
especially because of that broccoli which I have said like 10 -
this most times I've said broccoli ever.
This is really good, I would give this
an 8 out of 10.
This is an instant cup noodle,
regular one but with a very interesting flavor.
It's honey and cheese as well as jalapeno oil.
This sounds amazing and it is Korean!
They really like the honey and cheese ah!
So this is a dry type of cup noodle,
So we're going to cook the noodles first.
And now we wait!
We poured out the water,
I am going to pour in the seasoning
Okay, let me try.
Mmm!
Wow! That's really yum!
My mouth is burning from the oil!
It's so good! Oh wow!
It's got the savory, it's got the sweet and also the spicy is like everything
in this thing!
Oh that's so good.
Yeah okay,
Amazing out of 10.
It's just like -
It's amazing. The cheese, even though you can't really fully taste it
it does add that like creamy sticky texture to it
which is such a nice complement to all the
sharper flavors.
I feel like it balances really nicely.
If you did this and then you add in your own cheese on top of this,
mmm!
Like, whoa!
For a cup noodle I've never had something that tasted as unique as this
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