For The Love Of Instant Noodles: Straykat's Survival Menu




What's up, noodle cup!

I'm back on the ASEAN Hive Challenge again because this week's challenge is a great topic to write about.

We, Filipinos, have this belief to serve noodles during occasions especially during New Year because it symbolizes "long life". However, this does not clearly apply for instant noodles. Instant noodles isn't healthy but most of us still prefer this food because it's cheap and instant.

Filipinos suffering from poverty would buy 1 pack of instant noodles and mix it on rice to share it to their family of 6 or more. While the lazy and tired ones also go for this food because it's the easiest to prepare. And during calamities, instant noodles is among the foods distributed by the government to their constituents.



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In my case, I eat instant noodles when I have no time to cook food or can't use the kitchen. It's also my go to food when I run out of meals to cook.

Aside from the reasons I've mentioned above, I also use the cup noodles to plant seeds for the garden. After cleaning and drying the cup, I punch holes in it and fill it with garden soil.

With the plethora of instant noodle brands and flavors in the market, here are my favorite noodles I buy over and over again.


I use chopsticks when eating instant noodles so I don't have to wash fork. Just making everything intstant. Hehe!


First on the list is Lucky Me!'s Pancit Canton Chilimansi flavor. This is my bar the best noodles for me which is why it frustrates me when it's sold out when I go to the grocery store. The taste of lime and chili is so good and just right. Not so sour and so spicy. Perfect! I'd recommend this to anyone.

Years ago, people on social media were debating which among Lucky Me!'s Chilimansi and Sweet and Spicy tasted better. They even call it Team Chilimansi versus Team Sweet and Spicy.

I've tasted sweet and spicy before and that sealed my verdict.



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Team Chilimansi forever! Haha

Look, I even had a chilimansi noodles pin made by @leanwithdoublen She gifted along with other clay pins and stickers last year when we went to watch a movie.



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Glad I'm saving the cups! 😆


Second on my menu is Nissin's Creamy Seafood and Cheesy Seafood cup noodles. There's actually four variants of Nissin seafood aside from the plain seafood flavor. Creamy Seafood, Hot Creamy Seafood, Cheesy Seafood, and Hot Cheesy Seafood. I love all these flavors except for the plain seafood flavor.



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Hot Creamy Seafood flavor.


I have a little story to share. Back in 2019 my mom and I went to a popular ramen restaurant and ordered a ramen that is seafood flavor. I forgot the exact name of the meal but the staff explained that it is seafood. Guess what, the taste reminds me of Nissin's seafood noodles. Lol.


I paired the noodles with boiled egg fried nori this time.


Third on the list is Nissin's Creamy Carbonara. Yeah, I like creamy noodles a lot! This is our favorite noodles back when mama was still here. I love it when she prepares this for our dinner and pairs it with sliced boiled egg and toasted bread with butter. Yum!

I still buy this today but not as much as before because it's only available in pouch. I prefer cup noodles because I can use the cup for planting seeds. :)




Well, this isn't asked but one flavor of instant noodles that I don't like is batchoy. It's greasy. That's all. Lol.

Instant noodles has saved us in many situations and eating it especially the third on my list would always remind me of my mom. Although instant noodles shouldn't be part of our regular diet. We only try to consume it at least once a week or every two weeks.

That's it, pancit! (noodles) (It's a common expression here in the Philippines because of how the words rhyme.) 😄






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First time I'm seeing people collecting noodle cup haha. It must be that good after reading your post. Although the seafood variant looks somehow more delicious to me hehe. I think it's the orange colour.

I only saw two types on noodles at my place, Maggi masala noodles and Sunfeast yippie noodles. These two are the top selling brands here. Love to see the original Japanese version or the one you mentioned in the post here.

Noodles are the no1 food among hostlers here because it's cheap xd. It's great to eat during cold weather especially when it's raining outside 🤩.

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Lol. I have lots of it now.. i'm ready to plant the seeds i got months ago hahaha yes, the seafood tastes good especially the spicy ones.

Only two flavors available in your place? 😮
japanese version.. the restaurant i've mentioned? 😅

Hostlers..and students XD yes, the ones with soup are great during cool weather. I remember we eat beef noodles during rainy afternoon when i was little. 🤍

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Yeah noodles are not a big thing here so not much variety plus it has a bad rep here because of digestion issues after eating it. It's more popular among hostlers like I said. Most stay at home students just usually go for street food because it's cheap and tasty with questionable hygiene sometimes haha.

I'd rather watch an online tutorial and make the noodle from scratch xd.

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I see. So it's really street foods that's popular over there?

Don't you have stores over there which sells international goods? Just buy noodles from there it will save you time and effort. Xd

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Well it's mostly street food and Arabian foods according to current trend. Noodle won't come near these dishes when it comes to taste haha. It's something we eat when we are not very liquid 😂.

Google "Al faham", "Porotta and Beef" etc

You'll understand what I'm talking about. Just go through the comments section :)

International food sellers are not in my town I beleive. Well maybe there is but it might not be very popular because people sometimes say that foreign food feels bland and it's just overhyped xd. Pizza places are there but getting Chinese food and other delicacies from different parts of the world would be hard to get and might even be quite expensive.

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We used to collect cups too @straykat after eating an instant noodles. Because it can be used I either put used oil and sometimes my kids play with the cup

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I laughed when I saw the hot cheesy seafood flavor, that's gotta be unique to the Philippines. We have Nissin noodles here in Cambodia too, but nothing with any kind of European flavors, another uniquely Pinoy thing. Here I would guess pork and squid dominate the noodle flavors, nothing too special.

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Why is the cheesy seafood flavor funny? Lol. I'm not sure if this flavor is exclusive here. Maybe they also have it somewhere like Korea? Lol. I haven't tasted squid flavor noodles, that sounds interesting 🤩

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I also love the blue seafood (creamy) I don't really remember the exact names/flavors of the cup noodles cuz I always just identify them by their colors😆 My mother also collects the noodle cups to use as a pot for her favorite children(plants)

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Try the hot creamy seafood it's better! 👌 hahaha same! Basta kung anong available jan sa 4 na seafood un nlang kinukuha ko haha

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