Thai Kitchen Gluten Free Lemongrass & Chili Instant Rice Noodle Soup, 1.6 oz

YUM. A must for gluten free people!

OH MY GOODNESS🌹 No claims to swear this is god for other gluten free people. I've avoided white rice and sausces since 1990 when we were sold the myth that brown rice was healthier than white. Some Dr. on Youtube feed educated me Asians have been removing husk and exterior of rice to get to the inner softness of the fluffy white centers for thousands of years for a reason. He said husks cut our gut lining, leafy gut means small prickers open and let bile into blood stream etc. I found FODMOP information about leaky gut, learned im allergic to some fruits and vegetables, spices etc because they are high in things which the acronym is named. Long story short- bought 10 items to test, ate, didnt bloat or get gluten sick because of the white rice magic I just learned. I got sticky rice, these sweet rice cracker/cookies, noodles, lemon grass soup and sweet n sour sauce, tahini. I made my own lemon tahini dressing by watching a Rufus inspired training video thanks to Amazon's Rufus AI guy that prompted video options into my shopping experience 3 days ago. I will save these items to my profile, follow and search them there if you want, Im going to eat my new favorite things. THANK GOD FOR AMAZON's OPTIONS FOR Korean and Japanese foods.

I tried the soup straight. I tried adding ginger. I tried adding vegetables and chives. Unfortunately there's no getting around that this soup has an almost negative flavor that's worse than if it had a flavor. Even after packing the soup with everything, the bland broth still overwhelmed and the noodles gained almost no flavor. If I had to describe the taste, it would be the echo of very stale chili pepper powder meeting the ghost of citric acid. It tastes like the herbs in the back of your grandmother's cabinet that she forgot about for two decades and then decided to add "just a pinch" of as the entire flavoring for a dish because she remembered they originally tasted strong. It tastes like walking by a chili roaster in the wrong season when there's absolutely no taste of chilis left in the air but you can feel just a hint of something on the back of your tongue, letting you know that the air used to have heat and spice. It tastes like post-breakup ice cream or the first meal after the death of a loved one, but worse because you have no idea why you feel so depressed and want to cry.

My new favorites is rice noodles. I wish I had a ridge them sooner. Already re-ordered

Not much flavor

Gluten free can be difficult to find. I appreciate having access to these.

These noodles are delicious.

I have several autoimmune issues and I’m unable to have any gluten so I was pretty excited to try these, especially considering they were affordable and easy to make, and gluten free. Unfortunately the taste was not so good, it was extremely bland, the seasoning packet was so tiny and nearly flavorless, and the oil didn’t taste right. I was surprised considering it’s supposed to be garlic flavored and I couldn’t taste that much at all.So, after adding in my own vegetable bouillon and some other seasonings it still only minutely improved. I tried cutting down the sesame oil, then omitted it all together and used my own better quality sesame oil, and it was a little better tasting but all that effort took away from this being an easy, quick meal.I do like the other flavors offered in this line, and the rice noodles are good consistency, don’t get too slimy or fall apart.