KOKA Purple Wheat Noodles - Soy and Vinegar

Was attracted by the really nice packaging and the fact the noodles are purple!

The colour they used for the fonts and packaging is really good.

Perhap too good for a cheap packet of instant noodles, but saying that in UK, even the economy brands have respectable packaging and design, its just that the design of Hong Kong and China products look tacky and fake.

Anyway, there are three different flavours: soy and vinegar, chili and lime, and aglio olio.

The one I tried was soy and vinegar which is the Japanese soy vinegrette.

When I opened the package the noodles were purple as expected and you can see the noodles are embedded with wheat in them, the condiments are well packaged too.

I was expecting liquid sauce but it was powder, but I suppose powder is better because oil goes bad in hot conditions especially for hot Asian countries.

When I opened the sachet the smell of vinegar was really strong which was good!

You are meant to mix with xx amount of cold water which I have forgotten but I used warm water to dissolve all the powder.

I also added the other sachet which is labelled canola oil but it actually smells like sesame oil.

Anyway I put the noodles in hot water to cook, and interestingly when the water started frothing you could see pieces of purple wheat floating about.

The water was also turned colour so there is probably alot of colouring involved in this to make it purple!

So heres what the noodles look like cooked!

After mixing the noodles with the sauce, heres what they look like.

Finally I could dig in to these lovely noodles and I really loved the vinegary taste.

Related reading:

KOKA Purple Wheat Noodles - Chili and Lime

http://supersupergirl-food.blogspot.com/2012/08/koka-purple-wheat-noodles-chili-and-lime.html

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Weird name : Fries cut chips!! anyway these are crisps cut like french fries but much smaller.

The seaweed taste was faint and it was not too salty.

However some of the pieces still had skin attached to it and occaisionally there was some weird akaline taste which I cannot describe.

Bistrotea - Tea in a sugar stick sachet

http://www.bistrotea.com

Tried these teas because the packaging was attractive, the tea leaves were contained in a aluminium pouch shaped like a sugar sachet with holes for the tea to infuse.

There were lots of flavours but I tried Strawberry and Jasmine, Jasmine lotus and Vanilla peach.

The Jasmine was really fragrant and the colour of the tea was vivid.

Yijiangnan Tea - Jasmine tea leaves

http://www.hzyjn.com/index.asp

10 grams of Jasmine tea leaves by Yijiangnan.

The Jasmine taste was not that strong and the leaves were not intact.

Chinglish : dumblings

Batwan

Yes, it is spelt Batwan not Batman!

Anyway I mistook this for a Vietnamese Star apple but realised it was not when the fruit felt really hard.

Apparently it is meant to be that hard because I thought it wasnt ripe.

Inside the fruit there are some seeds in the centre which are covered in white sticky slime.

The hard orange flesh is similar to the texture of unripe hami melon however the taste is extremely sour and used as a cooking ingredient.

KAGOME Grape mixed juice

Intially I was attracted to this drink because it had lots of vegetables on the illustration and I thought it was purple vegetable juice.
After I bought it, I realised the main ingredient was Kyoho grape.

I have never liked artificial kyoho grape flavouring because it smells and tastes like plastic, and this drinks tastes just like that with some savoury tomato taste.

Now that I know they have just vegetable juices, I will try that next time.
www.kagome.co.jp