MAMA's creamy Tomyum

Today's ramen is MAMA's creamy shrimp Tomyum.
I have eaten some ramen from the MAMA brand but not this one, that I found in a wierd Chinatown store...
Looking at the pack leaves me this question:
How is this gonna be ''creamy''?
Oh well, let's cook these noodles and look inside the pack!

Pack includes this: noodles and 3 packs of stuff (thick sauce, dry sauce and chili powder)

Ouh, that thick sauce is spicy! I'm lucky I tasted before putting in on the noodles. For the sake of my tastebuds I only added 3/4 of the packet

Now the powder sauce and the chili powder! The powder sauce has a wierd smell, a...sour one? I'm starting to be wierded out by this ramen, I hope it's good! It would be a shame to lose those 56 cents.

All mixed! It looks pretty good I must say, with some hope it'll taste as good!

The flavor is...interesting. But in a good way. The sourness I smelled is a lime taste, very present. There's no ''creaminess'' as advertised but I can taste the shrimp Tomyum.

And I'm glad I didn't put all the thick sauce because just 2/3 and the and chili made it just hot enough to pack a punch without overpowering the whole taste.

As always with MAMA, the noodles are pretty normal, but keep well their texture.

My personal note is a 8/10.

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