I haven’t posted for a while, mainly because I haven’t been doing a lot of relevant gaming. We’re in the middle of a pandemic, and frankly, our family nerves are a bit raw with one another. So, aside from a few rounds of Unstable Unicorns, some Fortnite Save the World, and listening to my youngest make impossible amounts of noise with our bag of Tenzi dice while I’m trying to work, we haven’t been doing a lot of family gaming.

Which brings us to today’s post, All the Spicy Chicken Ramen! Okay, maybe not all, but three. I’m going to talk about three versions of spicy chicken ramen noodles, and because two of them are from Maruchan, I’m posting this big pic of Samyang’s Hochi:

All I know is that Hochi is strange, and appears to be wearing an itty bitty bikini and only one sock.

First up, Maruchan Picante Chicken flavor… It’s perfectly edible, but totally unremarkable, which is annoying because Picante Beef is actually good. Anyway, the unremarkableness is why I’m starting here. It’s basically chicken flavored ramen with a hint of spice. That’s kind of boring, but when you’re ordering groceries for curbside pickup, sometimes you take what you can get. It’s fine.

Second up, Maruchan Sriracha Chicken… This is my standby. It’s not available for curbside, hence the above, so I’ve taken to buying cases of regular chicken flavor and dumping copious amounts of Sriracha sauce on top. It’s nicer than you think, even if I do sometimes go overboard.

Which brings us to Samyang Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen. I ordered a case of this stuff, having absolutely no idea what it was, having never heard of the Fire Noodle Challenge, having no idea what to expect. To say it’s spicy is an understatement. Samyang Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen is essentially a laxative for your sinuses. Got a head cold with a sinus headache? Flush your whole respiratory system with a bowl of Hot Chicken. Even a half sauce packet, which is about where I’m settling, will make your nose run.

The others I eat like a soup, but this one I drain the liquid, add some portion of the sauce packet, depending on how much of a sinus drain I’m in the mood for, and splash with soy sauce. It’s freaking pricy for a ramen, but it’s pretty tasty and worth a try!

So there you go.