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Ming Tsai Blue Ginger Ramen Noodle Bowl
By: | Mar 29, 2007
Ming Tsai is a world renowned chef who has hosted shows on the Food Network and now has show on PBS called Simply Ming. He opened his first restaurant, Blue Ginger, in Wellesley, MA in 1998 and since then, both he and his restaurant have won numerous accolades. In 2000, he launched a line of Asian ready-to-eat foods available at Target stores everywhere, and in 2006, the brand was extended.
I am sure many of the products in this line taste great, but the only one I have tried so far is the Ming Tsai Blue Ginger Ramen Noodle Bowl and it is horrendous! So many problems - where do I start - the taste, the ingredients or the nutrition?! Let's start with a product description. From the package: a ramen noodle bowl; chicken flavor with vegetables and shiitake mushrooms. Please don't believe the hype! This is a ramen noodle bowl and nothing but ramen noodles. The 3 little pieces of dried up veggies, carrots, things that shouldn't even be referred to as vegetables, are nothing to brag about. The shiitake mushrooms? Please don't tell me you are referring to those 3 small, dark brown, rubbery things I saw floating around in the bowl of soup. as for the carrots - I'm sure they were once carrots in a former life, before you chopped them up into super tiny pieces and dried the life and the taste out of them - leaving small orange-ish rubber blobs.
The taste: tastes like ramen noodles gone bad. There is a flavor that I just can't describe. It is like the soy sauce lingers on my taste buds and the smell (of soy sauce) permeates my nostrils every time I go to drink some of the soup. Unpleasant.
The nutrition: Lord have mercy - I am just drinking salt water - 73% of the recommended daily amount for sodium?! Geez - my blood pressure might be going up as I type this. 350 calories, 9 grams of total fat which is 9% of the RDA and 22% of the RDA for saturated fat, along with 61 grams of total carbohydrates.
DietTrash: Nissin Cup of Noodle Soup
Cup of soup anyone? These sure are handy, cheap and easy to prepare - tasty too. Add water to the line, microwave, stir and that's it. So what's the bad news you ask? Sodium! 1434 mg worth of sodium or 60% of the recommended daily value. No way should a 'small' cup of pre-packaged soup have so much. 
There's also 300 calories per cup, 14.1 grams of fat (22% of the daily value), and 6.3 grams of saturated fat (33%). I recommend you try Healthy Choice Chicken Noodle Soup instead.
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