The Udon noodles and the broth are delicious. The shiitake mushrooms in there also give it a good flavor. This Japanese style Udon soup bowl is easy to prepare. i made a video where i eat it, show you in detail what it looks like, and how to make it. The instructions say to cook it for 2 minutes in a 1200 Watt microwave. Ours is 1500 Watts, but cooking it for 2 min. still tastes great. The video is a bit long. i hope it helps and is not too long to watch. Sabiene :)

Overall it's yummy and feels healthier than regular udons as it's doesn't taste as salty.

Now straight to the point ---
1. I heated in microwave for 2.5 minutes as I like mine extra hot. And it was extra hot as I had to get some paper towels to take it out of the microwave. And let it stand for a bit. Maybe I'm just so used to cup ramens. Noodles typically need a little more time than the instruction says to get to that right texture and taste. Typically.
2. Container - It feels very sturdy and nice quality. It doesn't feel cheap paper-ish and actually feel more gourmet. (Although there's really no such thing as gourmet instant food. "Gourmet" and "Instant" or "microwave" just can't exist together when it comes to food.
3. Look - It looks like... Udon. :-) It's got thick udon noodles and the soup looks like udon soup. Nothing fancy here.
4. Smell - Surprisingly good! It's very close to the normal udon smell and that's a good thing.
5. Taste (soup) - First got a spoonful of the soup and ate it. Mmm... pretty good. Typically udons could get really salty, but this one wasn't. It felt just right amount of sodium at least for me. If you like things salty, you could probably add a little more soy sauce or something. But I liked the mild taste of the soup.
6. Taste (noodle) - Then got a chopstick full of the noodles and had it. Ah~ this is where a star deduction happens. The noodles didn't quite suck in enough soup to give it some flavor on my tastebuds. Being a thick udon noodles, I could see why, but still. It probably also has to do with the soup being mild. This happens quite often with a lot of the noodle or rice cake dishes. It takes time for the noodles to take in the flavor from the surrounding soup. So typically that's where spoons come in and help. Get a spoonful of soup then noodles then spoonful of soup. That's how typical mild soup noodle dishes are eaten anyway. I still wish the noodles sucked in the soup flavor a little more.
7. Feel - It felt good. I was satisfied after eating it. Typical instant ramen have not-so-good after tastes, but this one felt pretty good.

So overall I was pleasantly surprised. It's good stuff. I was a little skeptical because of some bad reviews, but glad to have stocked up with these. Perhaps it has stronger flavor before? or probably MSG? This one's Non-GMO and Vegan, so I guess the taste had to be toned down, perhaps?
Regardless, I liked the taste and how it felt. It suited my needs quite well.

Really good instant food. It's only 300 calories and it feels like there's twice as much food in this package than a noodle cup, which has the same amount. The udon is pretty close to how it tastes if it was fresh. In truth, it feels a tiny bit like plastic but it's ok. The broth is bland but it tastes ok. I season it a bit when I eat it and I add some meat to it. It keeps me full for about 4 hours so that's really good for 400 calories total. If you get it on sale for 2.10, it's perfectly priced. Overall, if you wanted something that was well priced, tasted pretty good and you didn't have to put in any work to make it, this is it. It serves its purpose extremely well and that's why I'm giving it 5 stars.

OMG this product has drastically gone down the drain. I used to love this soup. I would eat it every other day. The sodium used to be around 400mg. Now the "new and improved" version has 800+ mg of sodium, AND IT TASTE WORST. They changed the flavor. Now it tastes like garbage. SHAME

Beware of higher ratings on here that are older reviews and refer to the old recipe (pre 2015) . The manufacture put a label on the packaging saying "New Tastes better recipe" that started in 2015. Well it tastes awful now. They doubled the salt content and added fish (so it is now no longer vegan or vegetarian). Really awful food. Used to be good. What were they thinking? Looks like they did it to all the Annie Chun soups. I will be avoiding them from now on. I suspect these changes were to save a nickel, turns out they ruined the brand.