Annie Chun's Organic Chow Mein Noodles & Sauce, 7.8-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6) | 
| Brand: Annie Chun's
List Price: $23.52
Buy New: $18.09
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 12779
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.8 x 5.4
Model: 765667627006
UPC: 765667627006
EAN: 0765667627006
ASIN: B000E18CVY
Release Date: December 22, 2005
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| Features:
| • | Case of six 7.8-ounce boxes (total of 46.8 ounces) | | • | Made with chow mein noodes, garlic, sesame, soy, and ginger | | • | All-natural, no MSG, no preservatives | | • | Cooks in ten minutes | | • | First place winner at 2002 National Association of the Specialty Food Trade Show; product of USA |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Easy-to-Prepare Pad Thai that Tastes Great. September 5, 2006
mirasreviews (McLean, VA USA)
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
Annie Chun's Classic Pad Thai Meal Kit provides the basic ingredients (rice noodles and sauce) for stir-fried pad thai. You need to add vegetable oil, tofu, chicken or shrimp, eggs, bean sprouts, green onions, and (not essential) lime, peanuts, and fresh cilantro from your own kitchen. Choose tofu for a vegetarian pad thai or combine with shrimp or chicken as you like. Of course, it would be less expensive to make pad thai from scratch. But the pre-packaged sauce is convenient, and this ranks high among the pad thais that I've tasted. The box says that preparation takes 10 minutes, but 20 minutes is more realistic. No MSG or preservatives. All natural ingredients.
There are 2 sets of instructions on the box, which is confusing. On the side panel, there are instructions for boiling the noodles. Those are for people who want to eat the noodles with sauce only. The instructions for stir-fried pad thai "with all the trimmings" are on the back of the box. This recipe instructs you to soak the rice noodles in hot water for 10 minutes. It helps if the water is boiling hot, and you will probably need to soak them longer to get the noodles soft enough. The noodles will soften a little after they are added to the other ingredients, but not much. Apart from the problem of undercooked noodles, the recipe on the box works well and tastes great.
Ingredients: Noodles: rice flour, water. Sauce: brown sugar, water, tamarind, soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt), onion and shallot puree, fish sauce (anchovy, salt, water), canola oil, tomato paste, rice vinegar, garlic, corn starch, lime juice concentrate, spices, onion powder. (Manufactured in a facility that uses peanuts.) Nutritional facts per serving (3 servings per box): 230 calories, 1g total fat, 780mg sodium, 53g carbohydrates, 9g sugars, 3g protein.
 Glue or Uncooked December 18, 2006
Megan (California)
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought this and a few other Annie Chun products on the recomendation of a Trader Joe's worker. Annie's signature Soba noodles can be cooked to either an unappealing glue or still hard inside. The sauce has an unpleasent odor, my fiancee would not even try it. I went ahead and tried it but couldn't finish it. I think I'm being generous with 2 Stars, seeing as how my dogs wouldn't eat it either.
 Not terribly impressed... July 5, 2007
T. Garrett
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
After trying the 6 "Meal Kits" contained in this item, I've concluded the following:
o The sauce is a tad "brackish" and doesn't leave me satisfied; I prefer a smoother, less salty taste
o The name "meal kit" is misleading, since one must (as others have noted) add the other 80% of what makes a true Pad Thai
o The noodles never seem fully cooked if you merely follow the directions -- rather surprising, since the noodles otherwise look the same as those I buy (for home-made Pad Thai) from the Asian Market
o Home-made Pad Thai is infinitely better, so find a good recipe, and you'll understand that Annie Chun isn't saving you much time (or money) after all
Hope this helps a potential buyer. We tried this item sight-unseen (it's not available at our local Whole Foods store), and kinda slogged through all six boxes over the course of a year. Had we enjoyed them at all, they'd have disappeared quickly!
Buyer Beware May 24, 2008
D. Buss
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
4 stars for Annie Chun, 2 stars for Amazon.
Don't assume Amazon's picture of the product is what you will get. The picture for the Peanut Sesame meal kits shows the new organic version, what I received was the old product. The boxes were not yet expired, but there was a 50 cent coupon on the front of each box that expired 6/30/07 (almost a year ago - that's disturbing).
So-So Thai Food June 14, 2007
Chartreauxx (Woodinville, WA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Prepared this dish with vegetables, tofu, egg and chicken, etc...trimmed with green onion and crushed peanuts. It was very meh - a perfectly functional dinner for two, but nothing spectacular. The sauce was very bland and it lacked that distinctive Thai kick provided by the sweet chili and fish sauce used in so many Thai recipes. Honestly, this tasted like it had been "watered down" to suit a presumed "American" palate. If you want a reasonably quick and easy packaged Asian meal, this is your one. Just don't expect it to taste like restaurant Thai food. I will be making my own pad thai sauce from scratch in the future.
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