Annie Chun’s Noodle Bowl, 5-Pack, Variety of 5 Flavors, Non-GMO, Instant & Microwavable, Vegan, Low Fat, Low Cholesterol, 5 Bowls

My husband loves noodles and I am always looking for new ones. He loves these bowls. Good flavor and good choices. I will certainly buy them again.

Delicious and easy to make. The toppings packet was lil scarce but you could add your favorites.

A good variety, they went fast in my kitchen.

These noodles have a shelf-life almost 10 months out. They are fast, easy, relatively filling and you can stick them in the back of your desk until that day you forget your lunch at home. I always one or two of these types of product in my desk just in case. You're not going to want to eat one of these every day. There's a lot of sodium and they're not amazing. But you will be super glad you have it when you need it.Put the soup base (mostly soy sauce) and toppings (random dehydrated crunchy bits) in the included bowl. Add noodles. Add water to the line. Microwave for 2.5 minutes. You get a salty soup/broth that tastes vaguely of soy sauce with spongy rehydrated bits and some noodles. This is not gourmet dining, despite the package's claim that "It's never been easier to enjoy gourmet Asian cuisine."So why four stars? It does a passable job for what it is. Emergency fill-in lunch. I give five stars for my emergency lunch to the Thai Peanut Noodles from their competitor in the yellow rectangular box with the sloped slides. I always have a box of those. But sometimes you want soup. And Annie Chun's Noodle Bowl is kind of soup.

These are a cut above most instant noddle soups in terms of both ingredient quality and flavor. The noodles are somehow pre-cooked and are just reheated in boiling water, not rehydrated, so they are very quick to prepare. Nutritionally they are very carb heavy and lower in weird fats than many instant noodles, as the noodles aren't pre-fried. Flavors are good and are recognizably related to the dish name on the package, rather than just being "chicken" or "miso" flavor.The noodle bowls worked less well for me than the soups, as they require draining and who has the setup for that if they are eating instant noodles at work? Not me. In any case, I liked the spicier soups better than the sweet/mild ones, but that is just personal taste. I added leftover chicken to some of these and was quite pleased to be eating a reasonably tasty, hot bowl of soup in minutes.Price seems reasonable for the quality, but these are definitely not an everyday meal for me, more of a special occasion. Overall, this is a good way to sample some of these and find if any are a keeper flavor for you.

These are a great meal option to have something shelf stable on hand.

Hey Annie, I love your noodle bowls but could I give you one tiny bit of advice? Some way, some how…please lower the sodium content!? I know that's difficult in prepared foods but it definitely isn't impossible! Normally it's easy to counteract this issue by not drinking the broth, but these bowls don't really have broth to avoid! Sure you can put in less sauce, but that also means less flavor!That aside, I really love your international flavors! I feel like I'm eating at a new foreign restaurant every day and it's delightful! The bowls are really easy to make and the serving size is satisfactory. I could eat these every day, if just not for the sodium!I don't mean to leave you out, Peaceful Squirrel! Though I prefer your curated boxes, these brand specific boxes are a lot of fun as well!Signed,Sara

Though these Annie Chun's meals were very easy to prepare, they were not terribly appetizing. I'll review these each as succinctly as possible, but the long and short of it is that the soups were fine, but the Pad Thai and Peanut Sesame Noodle bowl were anything but.*Star for the PAD THAI. I've eaten a lot of Pad Thai in my day, whether the Trader Joe's frozen Pad Thai which got me started 30 years ago, or the stuff I grab from the Thai place down the street...or the stuff I prepare myself at home from ingredients purchased at the local Asian grocery store, I think I have a clear reference point of what it should taste like. And this stuff tasted nothing like Pad Thai. It was overwhelmingly sweet. So sweet, in fact, I couldn't taste the peanuts or the noodles. It was like a sweet black molasses poured over noodles. And that sweet taste lingered. It gets the two stars because it takes no time at all to prepare, but I would not eat this again.**Stars for the Thai Style Peanut Sesame Noodles. I give this one an extra star because it was reminiscent of peanut sesame noodles. Not a great representation at all, but I at least tasted peanut and sesame. Again the problem is the insane sweetness of the meal. Overwhelmingly sweet again. I've had many a dessert less sweet than this and the Pad Thai. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer my savory dishes, ya know, savory.****Stars for the Udon Noodles. This was definitely a step up in quality. I could see myself eating this again. I followed the serving suggestion and added some seared mushrooms. This gave the soup a nice earthiness. The broth was very mild, allowing the added mushrooms to shine. When it comes to prepared meals of this sort, its best when the flavoring is mild so that you can season to your own taste.***Stars for Shoyu Ramen. Again, much like the Udon Noodles the flavoring was mild. I ate these straight without any additions and it was fine. I suppose this Ramen would have been helped by adding a few extras.***Stars for the Spicy Miso Ramen. These were okay too. Nothing offensive. The spice in this Ramen was sorta sneaky and I liked that there was just enough to notice, but not so much that most people couldn't enjoy it. Adding a few shrimp to this one would really make it sing.In any case, I probably wouldn't buy these again. But if you choose to, make sure you pull your noodles as they come precooked and prepackaged in a large clump. Don't cook them in clump form.