United Noodle

Today I went to United Noodle for the first time in a long time.  I love going there.  So much food that I didn't even know existed in the world, have no idea how one would cook it, and (half the time) can't read the packaging to find out how one would cook it.  Love it. love it love it love it.

So, today I went to get some Indonesian ramen noodles that Ferry gave to me, which I loved.  These were not your typical Manchuran Ramen noodles.  They had the same dried wavy noodle block (is this a requirement for ramen noodles?), which you toss into a pot of boiling water for three minutes, but instead of the dried, supposedly "chicken" "shrimp" "beef" or "oriental" flavored powder that you toss into the water with the boiling noodles to create some sort of salty soup with flavorless noodles, this had a series of packets that you mixed up on a plate.  The flavor of this particular package of ramen noodles was "Spicy."   "Spicy" flavoring consists of a packet of powder, a packet of spicy oil, a packet of soy sauce, and a packet of "fried onions" (which seemed more like puffed rice than friend onions, but whatever...).

Anyway, I couldn't actually FIND the particular brand of noodles (Indo Mie -- Mi goreng Pedas, in case you are wondering), but I came home with lots of other good stuff.  I got some "dried black fungus" which I'm preparing for dinner right now; soybean sprouts; bok choy; tofu,  canned bamboo shoots; two Japanese sodas that, for some mysterious reason you push a glass ball into the bottle before drinking it, and some lavender tea for The Bean when she goes to bed.

So, I'm going to make a stir fry using the bok choi, dried black fungus, and bamboo shoots, as well as some peppers that I already have, some onion, rice, and maybe some chicken if I remember to take it out of the freezer in time.

mmm.... fooood