(light upbeat music) - Greetings, my beautiful lovelies. It's Emmy. How are you? It's great to see you. And welcome back. Today's video is sponsored
by Simple Health, which makes birth control
fit your lifestyle. So Simple Health is super simple. You just go online and
fill out a health profile, which will then be reviewed by a physician to see if birth control
is a good fit for you. Recommendations will be made. A prescription will be written. And if you have health
insurance, it should be covered. If not your prescription
starts at $15 a month. Your prescription will
then arrive very discreetly right at your doorstep. There's free shipping and it
is super simple and convenient. I would have loved a
tool like Simple Health, when I was in college, when I was moving from
different apartments. You can simply go online, make that address change,
and you don't have to worry about any lapses in your prescription. So Simple Health's team of physicians wants to support your
reproductive health more broadly and are now offering a
line of new supplements including probiotics, UTI
support, and multivitamins. If you're a current Simple Health patient, you can go to your
dashboard to learn more. It should be noted that Simple
Health is not a replacement for routine checkups with your doctor. So if you'd like to try
Simple Health for yourself, click the link down below or head over to simplehealth.com/emmy, or use my code EMMY at checkout. Big thanks to Simple Health for sponsoring this video and
for their continued support. Now, today, I'm gonna be testing out an instant ramen noodle hack. I've done many hacks. I've tasted lots of instant noodles. If you haven't seen those videos I'll put a link down to the playlist below but this one just sounds
too juicy to pass up. And it claims that you
can take a bag of ramen. This specifically is
Sapporo Ichiban ramen. Very inexpensive, about a dollar and that by adding a couple of ingredients you can make it taste luxurious. Luxurious is the word that was used. I learned about this hack from Kevin Pang. He wrote an article about it
in America's Test Kitchen. I'll put a link down below to that. He of course learned it from YouTube, from a channel called Way of Ramen. I'll put a link down below, and they learned it from a
Japanese instant ramen channel, which I'll put a link
down below to all of those because I love how all of that
kind of transfer of energy and information works. We're gonna take Sapporo Ichiban ramen. This is the miso ramen flavor. This brand and flavor specifically, and we're going to add Kewpie mayo an egg and garlic, fresh garlic. It sounds great. All of these things have that really great kind of oily, rich flavor: raw
egg, mayo, oil, MSG, garlic. I mean, sounds lovely. So let's go ahead and do this. By the way, I've never had Sapporo
Ichiban ramen before. So I'm gonna do a side-by-side taste test and just taste it plain along
with the hacked version, just so we can get the full appreciation of the before and after. So I have two pots of water
here coming up to the boil. Both contain 500 milliliters
or about two cups of water. It's a rectangular brick. It looks very similar to Maruchan. On the back of the soup
base packet -- was this! And this has a spice packet. And it says we should cook
this for three minutes. Super fast. My waters are up to the boil. I'm gonna add my noodles
along with the scraps. Always put the scraps. While my noodles are cooking, we're gonna prepare the
luxurious part of this recipe. Add one egg. Boop. Kewpie Mayo, one generous tablespoon. (Emmy vocalizes) Soup base, mm. Original spice and grated garlic. And you want this really fine, so I'm using a microplane. This is gonna make it lovely. (upbeat music) I'm gonna stir my noodles. We're getting close here. To my original ramen noodles, I'm just going to add the
soup base, and the spice. Smells great, actually. I love instant noodles. I don't eat them too often. They've got a lot of salt in them but I really do like them. Bowl's a little small, but you know. To prepare the luxurious one, we're going to mix these ingredients. Now we're gonna add some
of the cooking broth. (broth trickling) A whisk would be better for the situation, but you know what? It's fine. Everything in there. Now you pull up your ramen noodles and you kind of fold them over the top. I always like to top my
instant ramen noodles with green onions. It just makes it better
and more beautiful. Look at that. Yeah! (upbeat music) Let's try the original first. Itadakimasu! Hm. I wouldn't necessarily
call that miso flavored, but it's not bad. Alrighty, let's try the noodles. Here we go, itadakimasu! Hmm. The texture of the
noodles are pretty similar to Maruchan noodles. They're not particularly bouncy or firm. Remind me a little bit of Cup Noodle. They're pretty tender. The green onions really liven things up. And the broth is fine. Not particularly remarkable,
but it's an instant noodle. It's hot. It only took three minutes to cook. I think the real magic
for me when it comes to instant noodles is when you
start to add additions to it. When you add a soft boiled egg, when you add some bamboo shoots, when you add a little bit
of pork and green onion, then it becomes a real satisfying dish. As it is, it's not bad. It just needs more. The spice in that is very, very mild. I don't even detect it. The moment I've been waiting for it. Let's try the luxurious version and already it does look more luxurious. Look at the color of the broth. It's milkier. It looks richer and
thicker in consistency. Let's taste the broth first because that's what
I'm most curious about. Here we go. Oh. (chuckles) It's good. All right, let me have
it with the noodles. So I have the full experience. Mhmm. Definite improvement. So the first thing I
notice is the mouth feel. It feels more slippery, more rich, and the consistency of
the soup is much thicker. So it just feels more tangible and almost tastes dairied as
if there's some cream in there. And then you've got the garlic which just blows this out of the park. This is fine. But when you add the
garlic it just bolsters it, enlivens everything and just
makes it taste more complex and just more delicious
and fresh garlic here, I think is really important. Putting the raw garlic in there with the hot broth cooks it just slightly. So it gives you that really
strong garlic flavor. Delicious. Absolutely delicious. I prefer a bouncier, chewier noodle. Some of the Korean style noodles I really love because of that texture. And it's all about the broth here, really. And so when you dip these
noodles in the broth, they just soak everything up. So besides the mayo,
we have an egg in here. So that gives us that really unctuous rich feeling broth in both
texture and in flavor. Because of the style of the noodle, it does still taste like instant noodle but it definitely elevates it to a place where you're just like, mhmm. In the end, it still tastes
like instant noodles, but it's a much, much more
pleasurable experience and much tastier than just the original. And I think this would be even better once you add a soft boiled egg to it, maybe a couple pieces of pork,
maybe some bamboo shoots, maybe some cooked beans sprouts. Then you've got yourself a delicious, inexpensive fast bowl of instant ramen. Alrighty, my lovelies. Thanks so much for watching and big thanks to Simple Health for
sponsoring this video. If you'd like to try Simple Health out for free click the link down below, or head over to simplehealth.com/emmy, or use my code EMMY at checkout. Thanks again for watching. I hope you enjoy that one. I hope you learned something Please share this video with your friends, follow me on social media. Check out my new website, with printable recipes
and instructions and yeah. Toodaloo, take care. Bye! (fun upbeat music) Back to the more important
things that are in order which is consuming this
entire bowl of ramen.
