XO Knife-Cut Noodles
🏆 2025 Great Taste Award Winner
Smoky. Deep. Ridiculously savoury. An award-winning vegan spin on Hong Kong's most luxurious sauce, poured over thick Taiwanese knife-cut noodles. Umami to the max.
What's XO? In Hong Kong and Taiwan, XO sauce is the fancy stuff: traditionally built on dried seafood and named after XO cognac because it signals "the good bottle." Ours skips the sea entirely. We build that same deep, smoky umami from dried hedgehog mushrooms, fermented soybean, ginger and fresh chilli. Blind-judged and awarded by the Great Taste panel in 2025.
- Hand-folded in traditional bamboo trays, sun-dried under the Taiwanese sun, never deep-fried
- The noodle is made from wheat, water and salt, nothing artificial added
- Thick, chewy, slightly springy, the texture skinny instant noodles dream about
- Cooks in 3 minutes
How to cook it: 1️⃣ Boil noodles 3 min 2️⃣ Drain 3️⃣ Toss with sauce packet 4️⃣ Top with a fried egg if you're feeling fancy
Add a spoon of Crispy Chilli Oil on top of XO is the double-umami move. Also vegan, also award-winning.
Best before: Keep in dry storage and see best before on the package.
Ingredients: Wheat flour, water, salt, sodium carbonate: acidity regulator, hedgehog mushroom, fresh chilli, fermented soybeans, soybean oil, sugar, ginger, mushroom powder, thickener, yeast extract, soy, hydrolysed soy protein.
Allergies: Wheat, soybeans, soy