Mildly flavoured chilled noodles
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Reisei Negimiso Maze Men
Brand: 7-11
Price: 550 yen
Place of purchase: 7-11 convenience store
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The description
Reisei Negimiso Maze Men is a chilled noodle dish available at 7-11s in some Kanto region cities. The noodles are topped with menma, onions, moyashi, and minced meat miso.
The good
Summer isn't done with us yet in most of Honshu. That makes cooking (and eating) hot meals unattractive. One solution is chilled noodle dishes. I found this one - Reisei Negimiso Maze Men - at a 7-11 convenience store in Chiba Prefecture. The packaging protects the noodles from getting soggy and keeps the toppings tidy. Lift the plastic film, pour the broth over the noodles, and slide the toppings on. The texture of springy noodles, tender toppings, and the niku miso work well together. The dish is flavoured with shichimi pepper.
The not so good
Reisei Negimiso Maze Men is a decent cold noodle takeout dish when it's too hot to cook. However, I think once was enough for me. It's not bad, but it's not as flavourful as I had anticipated. I guess hiyashi chuka has conditioned me to expect a certain flavour profile for cold noodles. I love the sweet-and-sour broth offset by salty and sharp pickled ginger. Reisei negimiso gets some umami from the onions and nikumiso but the broth was subtle. This dish isn't loaded like hiyashi chuka. You get sparing ramen-style toppings.
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