Working in London as an archivist at a big London gallery. Interests are music, art, clothes, cats a...
Working in London as an archivist at a big London gallery. Interests are music, art, clothes, cats and parks.
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Won Ton soup is a clear Chinese soup with vegetables in noodle parcels floating in it. The more culturally educated amongst you may also remember it as being the recipe which was contained in the microchip at the centre of Disney’s One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing. Tins of Blue Dragon soup normally sell for £1.05 in Sainsbury’s, well out of the reach of my budget, but I bought this tin because it was in the damaged pile and reduced to 60p.
It’s very easy to cook – just throw it in a saucepan and heat up to ust before boiling. it heated up very quickly and, beign a clear soup, the pan was stunningly easy to clean afterwards.
The packaging describes it as “bitesize parcels filled with a selection of vegetables in an authentic oriental soup”. Let’s examine this statement in detail and compare it with reality:
"bitesize parcels…".the bite of an elephant maybe! There were five HUGE noodle parcels in the tin, each of which took four slurpy inelegant bites to eat, whereas the front of the tin showed elegant little parcels. Ok, so they’re not scrimping on content and the high quantity of noodles makes it filling but I do think they’re misdescribing it.
"filled with a selection of vegetables…".hardly! There were some mashed up vegetables between each layer of noodle, and a few green bits floating in the soup. The tin claims that 9.4% of the ingredients are vegetables – not an impressively high figure. However it doesn’t specify what the vegetables are and I can’t say there were in a fit state to be identified.
"in an authentic oriental soup…".having not been to china I can’t verify this. I can only say that the soup was lacking in flavour and lightly greasy. It’s very similar to the soup that Blue Dragon instant noodle packets make up into.
All round I found this soup a disappointing experience. It was actually pleasant enough taste-wise, and filling, but there is no way I would buy it again, not even at that reduced price as it’s far too expensive for what it is.
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Any Orental foodstuff gets my vote - I'm a big fan of soba noodles in soup. Mmm... getting the munchies... P$
cherry_red 17.06.2002 23:33
Hmmm think I'll stick to homemade onion soup - much tastier and cheaper by the sounds of it :) Thanks for warning us before we spend our pennies... Cherry Red xx
Sootica.P.Monster 11.06.2002 00:58
Never tried this one, and probably never will now I've read your op. But yay for soup! Soup rocks! Sootica XXX
Jun 10th, 2002
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