I bought three candy kits for Shoonie, from Anime North. Here is the first one.
Brand: Kracie
Cost: $8.00 from Vendor’s Alley (Anime North 2017)
We were eager to try this kit. After the great hamburger kit of 2014, we couldn’t wait to torture ourselves again, with a kit that tasted like the real thing!
This weekend was Shoonie’s Graduation Weekend. After enjoying home-cooked Japanese-style curry, and Uncle Tetsu’s famous cheesecake for dessert, we settled down to make yet another take on the blooper reel that is our lives.
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This kit contains:
- Broth/soup
- Noodles
- Filling/garnish
- Gyoza (dumpling) dough
- Piping bag
- Toothpick
- Tork (Sorry, Shoonie. Maybe next time. 😦 )
The plastic tray contains four sections: one section is a stamp/mold for a fish cake (naruto) and boiled egg. (Tamago) Another is a dough press for the gyoza. It looks like the thing we use to make neures. (Sp? They’re like coconut-filled empanadas) The rectangular section is for mixing the noodles, and you can probably tell which one is for serving the ramen. Give up? It’s… the rectangular section.
After cutting all the sections out, we went straight to the gyoza dough. To make the gyoza, you must divide the dough into two sections. Don’t forget to remove some bits to make the egg, and fish cake. How much? Well, however much fits the mold!
Or so we thought… we totally missed the circle guidelines on the piping bag. Luckily we went back with the gyoza and remade them, even if it meant tearing the first one open to dump the fillings.
The gyoza dough was nice and soft, unlike the seaweed from the sushi kit. Perhaps it’s because I bought this one fresh?
It was fun to watch Shoonie pipe the noodles. And the final product didn’t look too bad, either.
Overall Verdict
Difficulty: Easy
Aside from the mini-measuring derps, this was an easy kit. The inclusion of pictures on the packets helped, as well.
Taste: 7/10
The broth doesn’t taste like real broth at all. In fact, it tastes like grape…very sweet grape. It wasn’t a great idea to sip on the leftover broth. XP The noodles and gyoza dough taste like Ramune soda, or “candy sprite” as Peck Peck calls it.
The gyoza filling tasted like cola. The only thing I didn’t like was the texture: I expected popping candy, yet this stuff…. melted in your mouth, and left a cold feeling on your tongue. If I recall, that’s usually a sign of artificial sweeteners being used. We discarded the remaining filling.
Overall verdict: 7/10 Beware the cola.
I was pleasantly surprised that the soup and noodles tasted like candy, rather than grape noodles in actual broth. It appears only the original kit used real broth. However, the broth is now incredibly sweet, and a bit thick.
Candy ramen isn’t enough to sate cravings, so keep a pack of 40 cent Mr. Noodles handy!
Would you try this kit? Have you tried the original ramen kit? What do you think the other two candy kits are? Comment below!
Pika, so happy~
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