Instant Noodles

This post is about a mail which my dad sent me yesterday - noodles. When I was in school, I rarely had noodles. But after I got to college, instant noodles instantly became a part of my life. Hostel food was really bad and to fill my stomach I started having noodles. Its fast & easy to make. Maggi is the most consumed brand of instant noodles in India. Even Top ramen, Koka & Wai Wai are good. So many types (atta noodles!!) and brands of noodles are there these days. This new noodles is out by horlicks and its called Foodles. How dumb! Supposedly its a healthier version. Yeah right!!

Everyone says that noodles is not good for health. The flavouring powder in particular is just not good for your stomach. Normally, we put the noodles into a pot of hot water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 5 minutes and then it's ready to eat. Supposedly, this is not the correct way of cooking noodles. By doing this, we are actually boilling the ingredients in the powder, which contain Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). This will change the molecular structure of MSG, causing it to be toxic. The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, noodles are coated with wax so that the noodle will stick to one another & look bright prior to packaging. Consuming the wax regularly from the noodles can cause cancer in the long run. Therefore, it is important to remove the wax from the noodles prior to consumption. It is considered safer if you consume the noodles in dried noodle format than in the soup format as the wax is left behind the boiling water before you mix the noodles with the ingredients.

Correct Way of Cooking:

1)  Boil the noodles in a pot of  hot water.

2) Once the noodles is cooked, take out the noodles and throw away the water which contains wax.

3) Boil another pot of water, add the cooked noodles into the hot boiling water and then turn off the stove.

4) Only at this stage when the stove is off and while the water is very hot, add the flavouring powder into the water, to make noodle soup.

5) However, if you need dry noodles, remove the noodles and add the flavouring powder and toss it to get dry noodles.

My suggestion: Add butter, cheese and oregano to make it more yummier =D

Hello kitty noodles?!?!?!  Seriously? I thought they make only stationary stuff for 1riyal.