#oooh but could i get *dried* porcini????

[shoku-and-awe]

I had a couple really wonderful porcini mushroom dishes earlier this year and have been absolutely haunted ever since. Porcini aren't widely available in Japan, and they're definitely not cheap, so I've been trying to control my craving for ages, like some kind of angsty 90s vampire, but I finally broke down and bought this porcini cream flavored instant soup pasta.

I'm not a soup pasta person, but this was surprisingly pretty satisfying. The pasta was still a little crunchy after the printed cooking time, but the broth was much more porcini-y than I'd even hoped! I was expecting a generic mushroom flavor (which *was* the case with the mushroom pieces) or maybe—in the worst case—that awful, cloying fake truffle flavor, but no, this did deliver! Especially considering price and availability.