Sunday, July 24, 2011

Demae Itcho 出前一丁 XO Sauce Seafood Flavor

This is that favorite brand I was talking about in my first post, just not this particular flavor.


Although the brand, Nissin, is Japanese, the package says it's a product of Hong Kong. Demae Itcho has been popular in Hong Kong, and subsequently Chinatowns, for as long as I can remember. What makes it so great? Maybe it's that character. Hehe.

It comes with the usual block of dried ramen noodles. It also comes with three packages, soup base, XO sauce, and oil. I don't think it was sesame oil.


It called for cooking the noodles in 2 and 1/4 cups of boiling water for 3 minutes. Remove from heat before adding the various packages. I'm not sure what XO sauce is supposed to be, but end product tasted like noodles in fish soup. It was seafood flavor. I couldn't taste any spiciness. The noodle texture was fine. Over all pretty good.