- Sausage in mie goreng I feel like to me
is the most Aussie Bogan thing you could ever do.
Like who asked you to put sausages in mie goreng?
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- To me mie goreng is like an iconic university food.
- I can tell you that they really helped me
survive my uni days.
- And then after that you don't really touch it anymore
because you probably OD on it.
- So I, unlike a lot of other people
didn't actually start eating mie goreng
until my adult years.
- Now that I'm a bit older,
a bit more mature and a bit of a classier human,
I don't have mie goreng as often.
- Mie goreng is probably the best food to eat
when you are intoxicated
or feeling a little bit under the weather.
- This is how I make my exquisite mie goreng.
I boil the water, chuck in the noodles,
and then I chuck in an egg.
Once they are all cooked chuck in the sauces,
all of them, and mix it up
and then I get a sausage,
chop that up and chuck that in on top.
Bellissimo.
- This is uni life in a bowl.
- I feel like this bowl is a little bit boring and basic.
- This looks like trash.
- It's like, "Oh yeah, I need to eat dinner
"but I don't have any money.
"But how do I like make noodles more filling."
- Mie goreng is meant to be easy
and this took the longest to make.
- Also using the pot to boil the egg and the noodles...
students smarts.
- There's nothing green.
There's no healthy elements to this dish.
- Mm. - Mm.
- Mm-mm. - Huh.
- I just ate the sausage, the noodles
and the egg all together.
Not a good combo.
- There's two things going on here.
There's like Bunnings snag, amazing, crispy sausage flavor
and then there's like that classic mie goreng flavor
and my brain can't compute.
They're not meant to go together.
- I don't think it's as sophisticated as it could be.
- Would I eat it all together as one dish?
No.
- Now all I want is a snack with like
onions and
(sighs) tomato sauce and barbecue sauce and mustard and
now I'm just disappointed.
I'm giving this a three out of 10.
I'm not impressed with anything about it.
- I'm going to give this person a 7.5 out of 10.
- I give it five broke uni students out of 10.
- Put the noodles in a pot of boiling water
and cook them until they're a little bit soft.
Drain the noodles,
put all the seasonings in the pot except the chili
because you don't need that when you're hungover.
Mix it all together so it forms a paste.
Chuck your noods back in and mix it all up
and eat those bad boys.
- Let's start with the positives.
At least they cooked the noodles.
- Making this was super easy and simple.
Just the way that mie goreng should be if you ask me.
- I'm really scared that these just look really bland.
- And doing it in the paste is a way
that I haven't seen before.
- And I actually loved the technique
of making the paste in the pot.
- I don't know if that's going to be better though.
I just can't imagine how... It just seems so weird.
I found it hard to get into everything.
I mean mixing, I don't know
maybe there's some sort of chemical chemistry thing to it.
Mm. That's good.
That's pretty good.
- I love it. It's plain.
It's plain and simple, like it's not trying
to be anything but it's not, which I respect.
- It tastes like good mie goreng, but without the chili.
- That's like the most exciting thing about mie goreng.
You left out the best part.
- If it had the chili that would be like boom.
It's going to be really good.
- By mixing the paste and coating it properly,
it's just, it's the best version of itself.
- And then the making part, for me,
making mie goreng as simply as possible is so important.
- Chuck in an egg. Once they are all cooked
chuck in a sausage.
Now you got a sausage, chop that up and chuck that on top.
- So having this whole paste thing, it's just unnecessary.
It doesn't make any difference.
- I know this is controversial,
but I'm going to give this a 10 out of 10
because I think it embodies
everything that a mie goreng should be.
- A five out of 10.
It's mie goreng, so it's going to get
five points automatically if you cook it.
- I give this bowl of mie goreng a four out of 10.
- I'm going to have to downgrade this
because now that I'm thinking about overcooking the noodles,
it's actually making me really annoyed.
So (sighs).
It tastes good so it doesn't feel like it's a four but
maybe a 4.5.
I'm going to give this a 4.5
because there's some questionable decisions.
- So I like to call my mie goreng pea goreng
and that's because I cook my noodles with peas.
After draining them I add them to a bowl with all that soy,
all that chili and all that oil,
mix it all together and make sure
that it coats the entire bowl.
Add extra shallots for that added crunch and an egg on top.
- Yeah. I have a few thoughts on this.
- I don't think a uni student would ever eat
this many vegetables in one meal.
- Composition wise it looks really good.
A lot of good colors.
- At first I was kind of like,
"This is a big effort for mie goreng.
"I got to do like three separate things here,
"but you know what it might actually pay off."
- The egg adds like a whole pan to the situation
and when you've got a pan
you got double the washing to do.
(slurping)
- Yum!
- This is a real tough one for me.
- This is bloody good.
- You've got that little touch of green
that makes you feel like you're being really healthy
but actually you're not.
- I'm trying to figure out what I think of it.
It's actually kind of hard to figure it out.
- Love the crispy shallots on top.
I feel like, "Why haven't I been doing this before?
Like why am I mixing it in like a peasant?"
- I'll be honest, it's pretty good.
Even these peas are good.
- I might start adding peas to my mie goreng
that I never eat.
- Your food groups.
You're getting noodles, you're getting vegetables
with the peas and you're getting eggs.
The egg food group.
- The peas I feel like are a bit, "Why?"
- So this kind of addresses a lot of different food groups
which is really good, so it gives you a more balanced meal,
which is very helpful, and it's not that hard.
- I feel like this bowl is the bougie uni student.
It's like the person who probably knows how to cook
really wants to be healthy
but is probably hungover and poor.
- Haven't given it a good ranking. I just don't know.
It's just not blowing me away.
- I think it gets a nine broke uni students out of 10.
- I'm feeling pretty generous today
so I'm actually going to give this a nine.
- I'm going to give this a nine out of 10.
- Making mie goreng my way is simple.
I add the noodles to a bowl of boiling water
leave it to cook, drain it,
add all of the flavoring except only half the chili packet.
Onion, the flavors, mix it together.
Boom. Done. Easy.
- This was really straightforward to make.
It actually was a delight.
- This is above standard bowl of noodles.
- The noodles are just in the bowl
and then the sauce is just like chucked on top
so it doesn't actually... you've got bits of chili
and bits of soy and bits of the other stuff, you know.
It's not all properly mixed.
- Now I reckon the chucking the flavoring on
after the draining is the right way to go.
- The fact that this is just cooked in boiling water,
like just sat in boiling water and the noodles go soft,
just stressful.
- I was a little bit sad that they only used
half of the chili.
- This is just your stock standard uni mie goreng.
Like you just cook it, blah blah blah.
It's so good.
- Even though only 50% of the chili was used
I will say there is a little bit of spice coming through,
so I'm happy about that.
- This is good. This is exactly what I expected.
- I was seriously concerned about this.
I thought it was a big yikes
that they weren't cooked in a pot.
There was nothing else. Yeah, I dunno.
I just thought the whole situation, big yikes, but...
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I think these are pretty good.
- I mean classic, great, beautiful, delicious,
amazing, yummy, it's all of those things.
- The only thing that this bowl of noodles needs
is to be cooked in a pot.
Then it would have been perfect.
- Simple goes a long way.
All you need is the mie goreng
And that's what really shines through here.
- I'm going to have to give this an eight.
So that's a really good score.
- 9.25.
- I'm going to give this one a six out of 10.
I think just because it was a little bit above average.
- I think Ryan came first.
- Same. - I dunno.
- First was Ryan with 27. - (gasps) Oh my god!
- And second was Sohan with 23.
- Yeah! - Well done.
- I'm so happy for Ryan and his first number one.
- I'm actually so shocked because I thought you guys
were going to hate the fact that there were peas in it.
Who will win the next one?
- Who knows? You haven't won anything yet, right?
- Yeah. It'll have to be me.
- Zeta, I'm gonna cheer for a win.
- I don't know if it could ever be you Zeta
because you have bad food opinions.
- Yeah (laughs).
- A little update. It's 1:47
and I am in bed and I am not feeling good
that mie goreng (beep) me up.
I need to get it out of my body somehow.
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