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This may be an unpopular opinion, insofar as any opinion professing a favorite brand of instant ramen can be unpopular, but while shin black probably has the best broth, albeit by a fairly narrow margin, I think Nissin Gold has the best noodles and is the best overall.
Yes yes, I know, “death to the heretic” and all that.
The recipe sounds good, and if I look through the visual artifacts, the result looks good too, but wow; that is a stupendously bad photograph.
Re veganism: if you used wine, it’s probably not vegan anyway, as most (especially white) wines use animal products in the fining process. Vegan wine from the US is often specially marked with something about fining or filtering, but it’s hard to tell in general.
Baltic bitch
I know this is “birch”, but it still made me laugh.
Sambal is Indonesian I think, though I know it through malaysian food mostly. If you mean shrimp paste itself, I’m not sure, but I would assume that the origin is prehistoric and shrimp paste co-originated with lots of coastal people in the area.
my point still stands
It kinda doesn’t though. That is substantially bigger than even the biggest hot dog that I would consider a normal size. You have to really mean JUMBO for your comparison to make any sense, and at that point you can’t use the serving size conventions of hot dogs anymore.
It’s a type of chili sauce that’s basically hot red chile paste with garlic, some sort of onion/shallot, and I believe shrimp paste usually. Sometimes people also use tomato, and may cook some of the ingredients other than the shrimp paste as well. Also herbs and spices like lemongrass, ginger, etc depending on specific tastes. It’s supposed to be quite a bright flavor.
Well, I do like onion rolls.
Whoever made this thinks a lot of spices are sweet that aren’t.
There’s a lot of pig farming in the US though, bacon is popular, and I’m not sure it makes sense to talk about meats being of national origins.