Have you guys ever tried putting bits of Ramen (before being boiled in water) in your salad instead of croutons?

I went to this restaurant the other day and ordered an oriental salad and they had bits of Ramen in it and it was amazing. I kind of put it on top of everything now.

When I was younger I would open the bag, pour the flavor stuff in, and shake it. They taste kinda like chips. It's really good but if you eat too much you will get a tummy ache.

I wouldn't have thought of that without reading this thread. I'll have to try that sometime.

I used to do that all the time when I was younger. It was so good.

But I'm definitely going to have to try that ramen-crouton substitute. It sounds really good. Croutons are getting olllld.

No, but that sounds amazing! o_0 I really want to try it now. I will bring some with me next time I go to Souper Salad, keke

I've tried that before but I would never get rid of croutons altogether, I love them both.

Hm. Interesting idea. But are you sure its ramen? They also have like cracker noodle shaped pieces of flavored ramen flavored stuff that they sell in those small 5 bag chain things.

It's ramen.

It was in the description and I've also taken to using Ramen myself. It's really good.

I could never betray croutons like that, but i'll try it.
thanx for the idea btw.

Yeah, those are good!

Aww, I love crispy noodles. Especially the ones they give with egg drop soup.

Now that you mention it, I love egg drop soup.

I'm going to try this today. We're having salad with dinner! But I'll keep my croutons handy.

I love using crunchy ramen in asian type salads. The one I'm thinking of is basically done with shredded cabbage (I typically use a cole slaw mix bag), mandarin orange slices (from a can), a sesame dressing, almonds and crunchy (uncooked) ramen noodles. Oh and green onions.

lol yeah that korean stuff. i never knew they had that stuff until my friend got us like three packs to eat while sitting outside the library waiting for her dad.

I have friends who eat raw ramen. Or they take spaghetti noodles and put them under hot water and eat them crunchy. I never got into the uncooked noodles thing.

No, i`ve seriously never tried it. I actually think i will now.

I don't put them on anything, I just eat them as is.

I can imagine it's only good on certain types of salads. I'm not a big fan of croutons, but I'm a fan of fried noodles when it's in a bowl of spring mix, tiny mandarin slices, black beans, tomatoes, chicken slices, and topped off with raspberry vinaigrette.

I believe they have these at Pizza Hut. I don't think it's ramen though, but it's some type of crunchy noodles.

Well, ramen isn't exactly "raw." when it comes in the bag, it's already been deep fried, which is why it has flavor and is super-bad for you.

I used to eat them in a plastic bag and mix it with the flavoring. :D

Hmm, I don't think I've ever had it on top of anything, but I did eat liek a piece of it before I cooked it.

lol, thats how i thought ramen was supposed to be eaten. until, i read the instructions and i was like "ohhh"

I like eating them raw..They taste like crackers!

I don't know about them actually being ramen bits, but yea I've had salads with wonton strips and some other noodle strips. The noodle bits seems to be more rounder and thicker and ramen.. Maybe like somewhere in between the size of udon and the size of ramen. Haha :P


MMMM I had some spicy ramen earlier. It was instant ramen, but it was from a bag. One of those bigger korean ones, since one bag has two servings.

Sometimes I'll see people walking around just eating ramen out of the package. It doesn't work for me though.

wow, i've never heard of that before.
very interesting, and i might try it.
ha.

that sounds really good. gotta try it sometime !

my dad made a salad like that.
It was made of crunchy ramen, koslah, and almonds and some type of dressing.
It was actually pretty good

crunnchh rammenn fukk nastii.. jeezz.....

i've tried that.
its good, but was
surprised when i saw it
at a fancy restaurant[x

Crunchy Ramen? It sounds good. I should try it.

I used to do that too. But instead of tummy aches, I got headaches. My mom would say it's 'cause of all that MSG.

When I'm feeling lazy I just pour the seasoning onto a plate, tear the noodle square into strips then dip them into the seasoning. I can't eat a whole square though b/c it hurts my tummy. :[

I've never tried that before, but I do love eating ramen uncooked~ >>;

I never tried it, but it sounds pretty good :).

There is this Ramen snack thing; it's not real Ramen where you can eat noodles, but an actual snack. It's in the form before you make Ramen, though. Anyways, you would break it into a few pieces and then put a seasoning (that they provde) on it. It's really good !