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And though Shin Ramyun’s Gourmet spicy took the gold. Mm-hmm. One question still haunts us to this day, which brand would win in just a head-to-head competition of their most basic no frills plain Jane chicken flavor. It’s time for Ramen Our Opinions Down Your Throat. Best Instant Ramen taste test. Okay boys, we have five of the Top Ramen brands, chicken flavors for you to taste and rank today. But first, go ahead and familiarize yourself with the ranking board. Oh, okay. We’ll be ranking from bad to really good, starting with simply broth-ful. Not for Uma-me. Tasteful noods. Yeah, soysawesome. And shoyu will love it. And first up we have Buldak original. Buldak. Always spicy. Always Buldak. So yes, not to confuse you if you are confused, um, we said we were gonna do plain Jane chicken flavor, but it turns out everything that Buldak does is spicy. So this looks spicy. Did you know that? Did you know that before? We’re doing it right now. No. Okay. Can I say something? Mm-hmm. Uh, is there something I don’t understand about chopsticks? Because, oh, come on. It is a little spicy for him. Go on. I didn’t. Sometimes chopsticks are rough and you can like pick things up with ’em and sometimes you go to fancy places and they’re smooth. These are smooth and I can’t, and it’s hard for me to do things with ’em like. Does that like? I hear, I feel you, but I do believe in you and I believe you can use these chopsticks. Link, on the other hand, I don’t know what’s happening. It, it, uh, was way too spicy and I was bent over all the way, and somehow it, when I swallowed it, it all went on my nose. A neti pot situation. You neti potted it. Isn’t it spicy? It’s not just a little spicy. Well, it’s not as spicy as, um. Maybe yours. You know what? Maybe you got a spicier one. The first bite is really, is the spiciest. It’s really good. Of any spice. I, I, I love this, but it is very spicy. It’s way too spicy. And I don’t know if you can give a super spicy chicken ramen the top spot in a chicken ramen taste test. You’re trying to give it number one already. Well, it’s the best thing I’ve had so far. Well, that’s a good point. Buldak. I think it needs a warning. Warning first bite is the spiciest. I think that the chicken breathing fire, oh, hold on a second. Do we need to sue somebody? Is that fire coming out of the chicken’s mouth? We got a fire breathing chicken here, Stevie? Is that the chicken’s mouth? Do we sue the chicken? What part of the chicken is that? Or the company or the– I think we’re coming after you, Buldak. I’m, I’ve been told that this is like basically their least spicy flavor, by the way. What? So yeah, Link buckle up. You should be embarrassed. Well, I don’t, I’m not. Uh, by the way, we’re not suing. Uh, that was a joke. Up next we have Sapporo Ichiban chicken flavor. Is Sapporo like, isn’t that a beer? It is. I believe, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Same company. They make beer and ramen. Huh? I’m not complaining. Is it hot? No. And it’s not spicy. It just tastes like chicken. It doesn’t look like there’s anything added that’s visible. There’s no fleckage. I can eat this one. I can like this. I don’t like it as much as the spicy one, but again. It, it’s got a good, well- rounded little taste to it. I feel like the spicy one is on its own Spice Island. Um, do you predict that others are gonna be better than this? I certainly hope so. I think so because there’s nothing, yeah, it’s just nothing. Nothing fun, loving. Nothing to write home about. Nothing fun, loving looking about it. I almost wrote home recently, literally. Um. I was at a hotel and they had a postcard, and I thought, what if actually wrote home for once, I didn’t. Well you should, maybe you should get into postcarding. But I was so tempted. This place, they had a postcard. They actually had postcards, then they had Letterhead that had your name on it. I knew you were gonna, I knew what you were talking about. And then a letter. I felt the same way. Yep. Did you take the letterhead home? Uh, yes. I put it in my backpack. Me too. It’s just sitting on my desk. Are we talking about the same hotel? Of course we are. As soon as you said you wanted to send that postcard, I thought to myself. I didn’t know you stayed there. What? I didn’t know you stayed there. Yes, you did. We all stayed there. Link had letterhead too. You just didn’t see it. Oh, nope. This is, I’m talking about a different place. You, you stayed at two custom letterhead in the room hotels. I think I did. Oh my goodness. Wish I knew what to do right now. Are you agreeing with this? Uh, three. Yes. Okay. Next up is Maru Chan’s Chicken Flavor. Now I’ve heard of this one classic all over the place. Still no flecks. With the CKS. I feel like you have a flecks bias. I’m just looking for something that makes it seem like. There’s more to it to differentiate. Now, when you, when you say flecks, I know you’re saying F-L-E-C-K-S. Well, but it might be that people, and I bet you in the, um, in the captions, the auto captions, it’s F-L-E-X. […..] Still no flecks. Like are Rhett and Link trying to do a new word? It kind of works both ways because it’s, they’re not showing off. Nothing is showy about it. I’m looking for something a little showy. Is there an actual difference in the way that you say those two words? An X or a CKS. Flex? Flex. Flecks. Flecks. Flex. I guess not. Flex. I think I’m saying I’m slightly different. Which one am I saying right now? Flex. You’re saying Flex. Which one? Spell it. Flex. Which one? X? Yes. Okay. I’m gonna do it again. Flex. You still. You’re still there. Okay. Yeah. Now. Flecks. CKS. Yeah. See you. Did y’all hear it? Yeah, I, it is subtle, but I heard it. Now, did I say subtle with a B or without? I’m having to compare the, the juices. I can’t let that slide. Did you just say, you should have said sutle. I just did. The B is silent. I said subtle. I’m just asking if you heard it. Has anybody said “subtil” to you? “Subtil” Fuge. I think there is a B in subtle, but it’s pretty “subtil”. Right, just like the H in white. I do not like this ramen. I’m putting it all back in here. You should, you should compare it to the, to the last one. Okay. There’s more stuff in this one. This one’s very chickeny brothy. The uh, Sapporo Ichiban. And then when I go to the current. Way better. Way better. It’s bland. Sorry, Maruchan. Todd, it’s bland. There’s a reason that you’re common. Let’s see. So this was before then. This is not as good. Okay. Are we making people mad now? Y’all mad? No, no. What we’re doing is we’re opening brains. Yeah, I like that. Today only you can get the new pin of the month. It’s right there. It’s sparkly, it’s adorable. It’s evil. Yes, it’s the Cotton Candy Randy Corn glitter pin again. Available only today. Mythical.com. Get it? This is Shin Gold, which is their chicken plate. What do I see? Flex. Flex Time to have Roman. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I like where you’re going. Look at that. What? What are these Flex? Is it just that– Is that egg? We didn’t. What kind of fleck is this? Looks like a little feller. Okay. You know, like you cough and something pops outta your tonsil. Alright, sorry. Okay. Please don’t say that. Now, I’m sorry guys. I’m gonna use a fork for this because I feel like when I did the noodles, all the flecks stayed up behind and I feel like I know I could use a spoon. Quit commenting. Look at the coloration of the broth. It’s, it’s a nice rust. I am gonna get the flecks. Why’d you put a W in broth? Browth. Like, I like that, browth. Broth. You’re really picking up on, on all the pronunci– Yeah. I’ve been studying, uh, linguistics lately. Mm-hmm. Those flecks are crunchy and it’s a little spicy. It’s spicy a little bit. What do we got in here? I think it’s egg guys. I’d say a decent amount of spice. I mean, not like the first one. There’s also shiny green paper things. Well, there’s, I hope that’s not seaweed. There’s peas. Peas. No, but it’s a, I think it might be the seaweed paper. When I say peas, am I saying um, the, the vegetable that we’re eating, or am I saying multiple letters? Peas. I think probably. Which one? The food. Yep. Which one now. Peas. The food again. Yes. Now peas. The food again. Yes. P’s. Hey, I just realized something. Yeah. Uhhuh. I went home last night and I was actually, this morning I was, I was rubbing lotion on my arm and I was like, it hurts right here. ‘Cause I hit you so much? And you hit me so much. Right. See that bruise. You gotta get tougher, man. You’re hit, You’re bruising me. You gotta, you got, I mean, you know what? Peas stop bruising me. We’re gonna do that thing. You know how those people, they go out and they kick the bamboo? Kick the bamboo with their shin to get it strong? I’m gonna bring a little bamboo and I’m gonna hit you a couple times. Karate choppers every day, every day. I’m get too tough and when I slap you like that ’cause I don’t hit the bruise when I’m excited, you’ll be okay. Hit me, hit me back. I, I Well I’ll poke you in that eye of yours. I got two of them. It is scrambled egg flakes. Yep. We knew it. Flecks. Sure. Flecks. Flecks. Flecks. Um, I don’t know if I like the flavor as much. Honestly. I’m glad to hear you say that. The best one is the, is the super spicy one we had earlier. Uhuh, I think this is the Flecks, are covering some things up that this brothy one. Yeah, I’m sorry, I’m going to fork y’all, you know, write, send me a letter. The Sapporo ichiban, it’s better. I mean it’s, for it to be as simple as it is, it just tastes, it’s better. You’re right. I agree. So are you putting it right there or do you, I don’t care what you do right here. Yeah, this is so spicy. Well, you know what? They did spicy and they did flecks, but they did spicy flecks, and it just tastes better. But I, I cannot tell what this mascot is actually doing under your thumb. Breathe into fire. I, I can’t tell that is, I can’t tell. That is a beak with a– That’s a mad eye with eyelashes and a eyebrow. And then that’s a beak and that’s a swirly cheek. Where’s the beak? Right there. Right next to the fire behind it. Oh, he’s facing away. He’s facing away. Is that, so that’s his ear? No, that’s his eye. His ear is underneath his little toboggan. I see it now. But then that.. It’s a rosy cheek. I think that’s his anus. No, I see. I see it now. Okay, so now you understand we can move it. I move that over. So the Sapporo one that you tasted and you said. There’s gotta be something better than this. No. Is the last thing you put it down. That’s what we said about this. No, no. You were flash rewind. Oh yeah, yeah. You know we did. We did say that. Turns out there’s not anything better yet. Can you believe that? Lastly, we have Nissin Top Ramen chicken flavor. Okay, we know about this one. What do we know about it? We know that it’s another common one that you can get at the grocery store. Top Ramen, you know what Nissin is backwards? Neeson. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So I know a lot about words, so why don’t you, uh, why don’t you say it forward and backward and then see which way. Yeah. Okay. Don’t hit me though. Okay. Alright. I’m really gonna be thinking about whether I’m looking from the back of the word or the front of the word. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nissin. Uh, you started backwards. I was doing backwards. I, you almost hit me. I know. I’m running backwards. How did you know that? I’m serious. Yeah, I know. Do it again. [slurp slurp] Nissin. Forwards. Yes. Now I’m gonna throw you a little bit of curve ball, just a little curve ball. Okay? Hmm. This is gonna be neither backwards nor forwards. It’s gonna be something else. Nissin. It it, it was Liam saying it. Yes. Yes. So in sync today. Hit, hit me in the arm. Yeah, yeah. Nope. Lower right on that. Yeah, right there. Okay. I gotta compare this one to that one. Mm-hmm. It’s yellower. It’s a lot yellower broth. Top Ramen has no flavor. Did you know that? Dude, top Ramen has no flavor. Has no flavor. Does it have less flavor than Maruchan? Lets bring it in. Which is this one? Let’s bring it in. I’m even getting a new spoon because I’m science-y about it. Neither one of these have flavor, but, but Maruchan is a little bit better. Then Nissin. Yeah, Nissin’s the worst. Reflect that in the standings. Reflecks that. Reflect that in the standings. Okay. Alright. Uh, this is gonna be hard. And this, then this, then this. And you do the honors and make it a big, make it a big moment. Don’t just put it there. Okay. Alright. Lemme put this here. Make it a big moment. Okay. Uh, gimme a second. It’s all been built up to this. They didn’t see it coming. The best chicken ramen that you can get. 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