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The Snapdragon Buffalo Ranch Sauce Noodles is a Vietnamese-made dry noodle attempting a Western comfort food direction. We wanted to see if this was worth the $15 for a four-pack.
Produced in Vietnam.
Table of Contents
What’s in the Package
Inside this packet, you will find a single nest of wheat noodles and one large liquid sauce sachet.
How to Cook Snapdragon Buffalo Ranch Sauce Noodles
- Boil 4 cups of water in a pot.
- Add the noodles and boil for 2-3 minutes or until tender.
- Drain the water and place the noodles in a bowl.
- Stir in the sauce packet.
We have one cooking suggestion to make. The package suggests 4 cups of water for a tiny nest of noodles. Cut that in half. The ratio makes no sense at the suggested amount.
How Does It Taste
Once drained and sauced the first thing that hits is sourness. An aggressive, overwhelming sourness that doesn’t taste like buffalo sauce so much as a budget bottled hot sauce that’s been sitting in the back of a fridge for too long.
James said it reminded him of a watered-down imitation of a fast food buffalo sauce. The dried parsley note underneath it felt completely out of place for this flavor profile.
It’s not actually spicy despite the buffalo direction. The heat is basically absent which makes the sourness even more prominent since there’s nothing else competing with it.
The noodles are the one redeeming quality. Thin and with a texture closer to carbonara than a standard instant noodle. They’re decent. They just can’t rescue the sauce they’re sitting in.
How Does It Compare
The Snapdragon lineup on this site has been a mixed bag. The Chicken Ramen and Tonkotsu both outperformed expectations for the price. The Buffalo Ranch is the opposite. It underperforms at a higher price point.
How to Level Up Snapdragon Buffalo Ranch Sauce Noodles
If you’ve already committed to the four-pack go heavy on blue cheese crumbles. The funk of the cheese does the most to mask the strange herbal sour profile and leaning fully into the buffalo theme is the only direction that makes this bowl more enjoyable. It’s not a fix so much as damage control, but it helps.
Final Verdict
The Snapdragon Buffalo Ranch Sauce Noodles is the most disappointing product in the Snapdragon lineup and hard to recommend at the price point. The noodle texture is the only thing worth noting. The sauce is sour, parsley-forward, and not spicy despite every implication that it should be. Save the $15 and buy something else.
Tasting Notes
- Spice Level: 0/5
- Broth Viscosity: 0/5 (Sauce-based)
- Noodle Thickness: 2/5
- Noodle Type: Carbonara-Style, Wavy
- Topping Suggestions: Blue Cheese Crumbles
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