id like to recreate the classic dark, thick hot ramen sauce but i need some help. does it have a specific name? all i found was people eating hot ramen… but i like the classic version as it actually tastes pretty good instead of just 'kick in the balls hotness'.
by MonkeyOnATree
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Also here for the answer
I dont know myself but would also like the answer
Start with a metric shit ton of sodium. Add a drop of soy sauce. Add a drop of hot sauce. That should do it.
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It’s extracted from the saliva glands of Korean dragons
So when i looked into it i read that the main base is something called Yangnyeom sauce which is a sweet and spicy sauce made predominantly with gochujang.
I’m not sure I want to know
From what I understand it’s their own proprietary product ([https://samyangamerica.com/buldak/original-sauce](https://samyangamerica.com/buldak/original-sauce)), based on traditional buldak sauce (“[*gochugaru*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gochugaru) (chili powder), [gochujang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gochujang) (chili paste), soy sauce, [*jocheong*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocheong) (starch syrup), garlic, and ginger”) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buldak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buldak))
The bottled version lists the ingredients as:
>water, artificial chicken flavor powder, corn syrup, soy sauce, soybean oil, onion, garlic, chili extract, paprika extract, green tea flavor oil.
So you could play around with ratios of water, chicken bouillon, sugar, soy sauce, oil (could probably just substitute vegetable or canola), onion, garlic (for those I’d grind up some freeze-dried, rather than use powders), capsaicin extract, and paprika extract. I wouldn’t know where to get green tea oil, but I doubt it’s very important.
Be careful with the capsaicin extract, start with a single drop then add more if you need to.
Buldak sells bottles of this stuff, I’ve seen quite a few versions of it at my local Asian grocery store!
You can buy it straight from the bottle. If you want to make your own version, look up Buldak, the dish. The flavor profile of the Buldak noodles is based on that dish. Make the sauce/marinade, or whatever, and add some chicken bouillon and it is probably pretty close.
Ground abdomen of mantis and fluid from yak testes.
And why does it make my pee neon
The last time I mixed two of those with my noodles, I shit my pants the morning after : ) be careful.
You didn’t dump the whole pack on there did u?
It’s a chemical weapon, banned by the Geneva Convention for use in warfare.
Amazon link [sauce](https://www.amazon.com/Samyang-Bulldark-Challenge-overseas-shipment/dp/B07Q8FH6TY)
Bendito buldak
Extract garbage since it’s got virtually zero flavour.
Molten larva in a sachet
weird, i thought buldak sauce is completely artificial, and it’s impossible to make with the real ingredients, only chemicals
its an industrial production branded hotsauce. you arent gonna recreate it. they spent likely hundreds of thousands on this.
I love super spicy food but find this sauce gross, not because of the spice level but the fact it tastes to me like pure chemicals. Just a very offputting artificial flavour and weird aftertaste.