ah achillea hello everybody welcome to
take your creative play I'm Emma it's
just me today so just gonna be me and
you hanging out and I hope that you're
doing well in these insane times today
I'm gonna be trying 10 different kinds
of cup ramen because you know what kind
of stuck at home a little bit right now
and the best thing to do when you're at
home is either cook or like snack around
but if he call me bothered to cook a
really fancy meal I think cup ramen is
the best way to go so Japan has a lot of
really interesting kinds of cup ramen
and I'm gonna be trying some so I
thought I'd start off with the classic
okay this is gonna take three minutes to
cook so I'm just gonna get started while
I chat to you guys but yeah this one
it's got a variety of things inside it
it's got seafood it's got meat it's got
sure you so much soy sauce so I just
want a cold chopstick hack and now you
can learn it too there's a museum in
Yokohama and you can go and make your
own version of the cup noodle and like
decorate it and stuff and put whatever
flavors you want in it and they also
sell I have these at home they sell
little magnets that I like half the cup
noodles so you can stick them on your
fridge and you have a super cute the
museum is also in Osaka if you're going
on a trip to Osaka as well so if you
guys have been to Japan I'll go to the
convenience store there's obviously a
lot of cup noodles around they're very
common to eat just as a snack but also
they're really good to have as emergency
food or backup food if there's an
emergency or disaster or something
that's another reason that you can have
these at home I like soggy noodles but I
can't deal with hard noodles so if you
guys come to Japan there's a place
that's really popular Nicci done and you
can and I think a pod or does it as well
you can ask for the firmness of your
noodles if you want them really soft if
you want them like a little bit al dente
is that the right way anyway let's see
some meals so I'm also gonna be rating
these noodles and saying three words
that describe them to me I forgot to
tell you I'm really bad at eating
noodles so today I really want to work
on my slurp cuz that's like a thing here
need to just incorporate air and it's
like when you slurp it with that air it
cools down the noodles so it doesn't
burn your mouth apparently but I always
burn my mouth okay
yeah it's decumanus oh yeah these are
just good classic it's like kind of a
light flavor but still really good and I
have to say the little tiny chunks that
made it pretty good they like taste very
flavorful and it's surprising cuz it's
just like dried out bits of meat
sounds kind of weird but it's good my
three words for this one
mystery meat good so I'm not gonna eat
too much of this because I have like
nine other ones to try and also the crew
are very hungry so I'm gonna give them
to you guys enjoy next I'm going forward
I haven't actually tried it yet it is
welcoming gonna show you
so what comment is that kind of seaweed
Goma is sesame seeds and show you is soy
sauce so yeah this is a by a brand
called ace cook very cute it's got a
little pig okay the seaweed is already
inside it with mystery chunks and then
the soup I know that cup noodle might
seem a little bit simple you know you
open it you put the water out but with
Japanese company tool there's a lot of
different sources and powders that go
with it so sometimes there's a certain
order in which you have to put things in
so this one tell me to put the stupid
now before I put the hot water in but
also sometimes they come with a source
especially yakisoba but the sauce it's
good to warm it up so you put it on top
of the the packet while the water heats
up the noodles inside and it wants the
sauce on the top if you can't read those
always good to use a translation app
alright here we go me a few moments
later alright be what kami noodles I've
done and look how beautiful they are
they have the beautiful wakame seaweed
on them and the chunks that I was
confused about before we're actually the
coal onto the shown on the front of the
packet looks super good smells really
nice as well I feel like I'm expecting
like a little punch or something from
the soup it's like oh it's gonna get
flavor and then it never does it's just
kind of watery at the end which is
really sad because I feel like this has
so much potential but it just kind of is
like yeah but the seeming bits are
really nice this seaweed one is actually
really cheap you can get a big a version
of this for just a hundred yen in
general noodles here pretty cheap but
this one is really cheap okay my three
words a plain simple seaweed okay on to
the next one the next section that we're
doing is seafood so this woman I'm going
to try is hot thought the does she
she'll what that day is scallops so
that's gonna be like a very seafood
broth I feel like dashi is broth and
she'll is salt so salty seafood broth
there's actually a ramen shop in Saitama
called Zegna so this is a cup noodle
version of the
they sell there and that's actually
quite common here there's a bunch of
famous ramen or noodle restaurant chains
here that if they get successful enough
they'll come up with their own cup ramen
the Michelin star cup ramen as well and
this one's gonna liquid soup so I think
that I gotta put this on top to heat the
soup while I cook the noodles I was just
reading this packet and I noticed
something interesting so this is again
by the brand ace cook but in katakana
they've written their name is ace cook
is cook did they spell it wrong in
English or Japanese Oh like a thick
sauce there are some tacky knuckle which
is bamboo shoots are usually that's a
common thing to put on top of ramen oh
yeah so it is a little bit oily but it's
quite nice it adds a different kind of
dimension to just having like the normal
like watery broth so that's got a little
bit of oil a little bit of extra flavor
the salt is really nice I can't really
taste anything that's like scallops but
maybe my scallop palate is not as
refined as it should be bamboo shoots
are very nice a little bit small so I
can kind of just taste them but it's
nice to have them in there I like a
little bit of variety in the noodles at
3 words okay
oily Bandar salty alright we're back in
with another classic seafood it's the
Nisshin style again I just love the
packaging it's just so cute Oh classic
so in this it looks like this tiny
little bits of crab it can't be real
crab because that's expensive they might
have a little come up vocal in here
which is like a fish cake but I don't
know what it's gonna taste like it's
freeze-dried so yeah it looks like
there's the yellow stuff which I keep on
assuming is egg but who knows smells
like fish just put it in the water okay
my noodles are almost ready she only
just gave me some hot tips about making
noodles at home you know that might get
kind of boring after a while so there's
a lot of ways that you can customize it
at home she already said that you can
add like egg yolk cheese kimchi milk
kind of anything that you want and you
can make it even more delicious at home
doesn't just have to be you know a
normal food super cup noodle you can
make it special in your own way I'm
going to try one of the little bits
what the heck actually tastes like a
seafood stick it's really good it's got
the same texture that's what I'm
surprised about the same texture of a
usual like seafood stick mmm that's like
a pleasant surprise
I guess cuz this is a really popular
flavor iceplug people's for a reason
like the broth is really nice it's good
right amount of salts there's fun things
in here they got that little bit of
mystery yellow again it's all around
like a winner and it's not too seafoody
it's it's not too anything it's just
great balance in Japanese sure doughy
this like just it's like just right you
know it's the right amount of salt it's
the right amount of like fatty in the
broth yeah I'm I like this one okay the
next one we have is Nicole Gill Kai
ramen so it is a seafood thick seafood
broth and it says something about Jota
here and chicken on the top it has a
picture of the whole Tati like full hot
day in there with the bamboo shoots and
some spring onions but inside some
powder no there's also some of the the
bamboo shoots in here as well but no hot
thought there to be seen smells kind of
smoky am I crazy I feel like they would
advertise that that was intended it's
good
the smell okay it is ready and it looks
quite creamy
we got a creamy broth Karimi let's cut
the talk and more a taste in I really
like this one the creaminess really
comes through but the taste and
everything it's not a really intense
flavor of seafood it's just very
palatable gentle like this is such
comfort food three words for this one I
would say creamy comforting delicious so
the next one that we have is another
Nisshin one but this one is I think a
new flavor it's miso I've never seen the
miso wonderful
have you noticed how tiny the little
cups are these are smaller than usual
ones if you go to the convenience store
usually they'll be you know quite a
little bit quite a bit bigger than these
ones but these are the mini cups and I
always thought that they were like four
kids so just if you wanted a really tiny
snack or something but on this one it
says this one pairs really well with
onigiri and it turns out workers usually
for lunch when they go and get some
stuff from the convenience store you
know you'll have like a little bent or
that you can have or like some little
snacks Tommy giddy but it's
good to have a soup or specifically a
miso soup with the meal and so you can
go and get premade miso soups but this
one is miso noodles so you can have
noodles and miso at the same time there
is tiny chunks of what I assume is meat
and corn and green he's so happy for me
so and now we wait but me so impatient
smells good hmm there's almost like a
spiciness to it it's on the verge of
having like a little bit of extra
something but the flavor is quite it's
it's not like super strongly so but the
flavor is full there's like different
elements to it there's like a little bit
of a sweetness a little really salty
which I love it's like almost meaty as
well I don't know I'm a really big fan
of this one here my three words me so
happy all right we got the next one
which is muy yashi miso which is bean
sprouts washy and Mesa and music and it
says gochenour si UD so five different
kinds of vegetables within kinds of
vegetables they have bean sprouts
cabbage : carrots and Negi which is leek
oil spring onions I think out of all of
the ones that we have this one has the
most vegetables in it
so maybe the most healthy maybe they'll
get bigger when I put the hot water in
and it'll look more impressive it's
crack open this bad boy what some soup
in Wow
okay very meter where's my yes I the
more stir the less vegetable there are
quite disappointed in the amount of
vegetables in this the Mesa was very
smells very strong and it was very dark
miso oh I'm so sorry
ace cook there's nothing special about
this it's not fun there's not that many
colors in it there's not that much
variety there's it's I don't know I'm
I'm pretty disappointed in this one to
be honest three words let me down so sad
okay next one I'm actually really
excited for this one looks like it has a
lot of potential because it's from Alpha
D which is a really famous ramen shop
here in Tokyo it's probably elsewhere in
Japan as well but they also do a vegan
ramen I figure eyes interested this one
is a foodie yuzu shio ramen
user is the Japanese citrus CHEO is salt
that yeah there are chunks there's meats
and Negi
also if you're not vegan or vegetarian
and you go to alpha D they have a really
good like pork rice bowl you gotta try
it it's it's ready the smell is really
good
I'm super excited for this one oh yes
alpha D thank you
killing the game the broth isn't too
salty but for some reason this doesn't
really need it but it's like other
flavors in there that means that it
doesn't have to be overpowered with salt
they're not compensating for anything
it's just they just let the flavor suite
for themselves they use it was so nice I
feel like the others are very like
comfort food or is this one it's a
little bit more refined for a cup noodle
my three words refined citrusy and yummy
next one is just a simple geode Amin
sapporo ichiban put on number one
okay says this hoffa lettuce is worth
the fiber in this that's such a weird
way I always see that sometimes it's
like a bag of potato chips and they will
say half a lettuce is worth the fiber
within these potato chips why is the
lightest the unit of measurement when it
comes to fiber another thing in your
country because I I never heard of that
before I came in
oh there's little mushrooms always so
cute I feel like this mushroom is
standing like this I'll kill ya how
about mushrooms turn out where's my fun
boy it's good it's very basic like I
feel like I would need to add something
fun to this ah it's kind of it's fine
but it's boring
oh I'm sorry but it is it's pretty
boring no I think it's cuz I've eaten
this just often you know that I 41 so
it's just like a company it feels like a
chicken soup even though I don't know if
it's chicken flavor supposed to be just
salt but yeah it's like a chicken noodle
soup but there's not much flavor going
on so for this ramen I would say
comforting
yeah basic okay the final one that we
have isn't food on one if not even ramen
what are you gonna do it I know it crazy
but we have a little food on and it's a
kitsune udon so kids in it
has the little like deep-fried piece of
tofu on top I'm excited to see how they
did it in like a freeze-dried version
that is rehydrated with water
it's so cute baby one let's see how she
turned out oh hello how you doing you
see the little petals little flowers so
cute I though that this would soak in
the broth and would taste like the broth
but it actually has a completely
different flavor where's the flavor
coming from it's so strong but it's
really good yeah very sweet a little bit
it's like almost spicy at the end so I
love the addition of this a bad idea
because it just makes the whole meal way
more enjoyable and the flowers I really
love this one okay my three words for
the kitsune udon fun surprising
delicious final decision has been made
this is the winner
woohoo this is the official review of
Emma this is the best cup noodle in all
of Japan out of the 10 that I tried all
right so that is all of the cup noodles
that I've tried today just to let you
know and to show you everybody else ate
all of the noodles from all the others
so there's some broth left but no
noodles left except for this one which
is still full of noodles everybody tried
it and just really to not enjoy it they
haven't had a chance to eat this one yet
you guys gonna love it there's actually
a bunch of different kinds of pot dude
on as well not just ramen so if you want
to try different kinds there's those as
well and also they came up with a rice
version recently you can get ones with
like one x in them there's so many
different things to try so definitely if
you have the chance try as many as you
can because they're just a lot of fun
well a lot of them were super delicious
so let me know in the comments down
below if there's one of these that took
your fancy or that you'd like to try let
me know thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you in the next video bye
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good it makes me scared for the future I
have like eight more to go am I gonna
get sauce in my eye
refined citrusy easy yummy scrummy
refined citrusy and
me and then my thumb came up I don't
know why he put that back