I’m always on the look out for shelf-stable (snowed in-friendly!) foods, and the ingredients on these seemed fairly non-food free (although of course miso is by definition processed, it’s also a very old method).
https://www.itsu.com/grocery/products/noodles/chickn-ramen-ricenoodles/
Itsu chick-n ramen rice’noodles
Rice noodles with a chicken flavour and sesame miso based broth paste and dried spring onions
Ingredients: Rice noodles (62%) (rice, tapioca starch, salt), broth paste (36%) (miso [water, soya beans, rice, salt], water, sesame paste, yeast extract, sesame oil, sugar, rice bran oil, salt, alcohol, onion powder, paprika powder, garlic powder, chilli powder, ginger powder, black pepper), dried spring onion.
Initial thought on opening it was that I was expecting more “bits”, maybe some sort of tofu-type of thing (having figured that “chick-n” meant no actual meat) for protein.
Bog standard cup noodle preparation technique: add sauce, boiling water, wait.
Taste was very good, none of the chemically aftertaste that (eg) Nissin brand ones have. Those long flat noodles are kinda tricky to eat with a fork from a narrow container.
217 kcal per pot means I suspect I’ll be having cheese and biscuits later in the afternoon.
Conclusion: assuming my stomach doesn’t object to it, I will get some more to stick in the cupboard. But I’ll probably make two at once, add some dried mushrooms / veggies, and pour them both into a bowl.