THE PHO FACEOFF!
Oh no! Anyway, here we go!
I'm a big fan of a nice steamin' hot bowl of Pho. Pho those of you who don't know, Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup and is quite tasty. I've had a few bowls of it in some Vietnamese restaurants and man it is some tasty stuff. So here's two different kinds of instant Pho. Let's put 'em to the test and see who comes out on top!
So, from Thailand, we have the MAMA Pho Bo (Bo means beef) in the yellow package, and from Vietnam, the birthplace of Pho, we have Vifon Pho Bo. The MAMA noodles are definitely in the better package if you ask me... the picture on the package looks downright tasty. Let's bust em open.
Here's the MAMA noodles ready to cook. The rice noodles are almost like vermicelli. There's a beefy smelling soup base and a pack of yellow goop in the package... so let's check it out.
Here's the Vifon ready to cook. It's got an extra pack of just veggies and some fake meat pieces. Hmm... those noodles are also a lot thicker. So now in my microwave of death I'll cook this one up too...
Looks pretty tasty. The noodles really fattened up in the cooking process and the fake meat thingies look somewhat believable. So now, the taste test...
The MAMA noodles are the closest thing I would expect to a real bowl of Pho to ever come from an instant noodle package. The soup tastes like Pho and the noodles are good quality. If you want tasty Pho noodles in three minutes, this is it.
The Vifon noodles are just too dang big and droopy for my taste and don't have a very pleasant consistency. If you've ever eaten Pasta Roni that's the consistency of these noodles. The fake meat pieces are tasteless and have the consistency of beef jerky. The soup itself isn't bad and tastes like a Pho soup, but it's just not as good as the MAMA noodles. MAMA wins this one hands down, in a startling hometown upset for Vifon.
Final Scores: Vifon: 6/10
MAMA: 9/10
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