If you’ve never tried tom yum soup before, it’s a popular traditional Thai broth known for its combination of sour, spicy, and savory flavors. The Authentic Asia Hand-Wrapped Shrimp Wontons with Tom Yum Soup Base from Costco brings together a rich, flavorful broth with succulent shrimp wontons. It’s the ultimate comfort meal that’s ideal for warming you up on a chilly winter day or when you’re feeling under the weather!
Location in Store
I found this in the freezer aisle at Costco, next to the Ajinomoto Vegetable Yakisoba and the Bibigo Steamed Dumplings. The item number is 3347725.
Taste
I like the Authentic Asia Hand Wrapped Hand Wrapped Shrimp Wonton Soup so I wanted to try this version with the Thai tom yum base! The first thing I’ll say about the taste is that this is spicy! There’s a moderate amount of heat in the broth. I didn’t feel like my mouth was on fire but I absolutely noticed the spice and wouldn’t recommend this for people who are sensitive to spicy food.
If you like tom yum, you’ll enjoy this broth. It’s sour, sweet, savory, salty and spicy! The flavor is overall pretty good but it’s a tad spicy and salty for my liking. You definitely notice the flavor coming from the lime juice and fish sauce in the broth.
The shrimp inside the wontons are a bit chewy and taste a bit overcooked. They’re okay though. The noodle wrapper is really delicate and thin, it breaks apart easily and has little flavor.
Cost
The box comes with six individually packaged 147 gram bowls of soup and the box costs $18.99 Canadian. That’s not cheap! You’re paying over three dollars per soup which seems expensive to me. I think the high cost is related to the convenience and packaging.
Convenience
Each soup comes packaged in a plastic bowl with a plastic lid on it. The containers are reusable and I keep them for storing small desserts like cookies or brownies in my freezer or I also bring snacks to work in them. Because the soups are packaged so conveniently you can easily bring them to work or school for lunch.
These soups are a nice quick lunch, snack or appetizer! They’re a little light to have as a dinner though. The best before date is just over 13 months from when I purchased them. My toddler loves wonton soup so I offered her some but she found it too spicy, I believe a lot of kids would find there’s too much heat.
Nutrition
Calories
One entire 147 gram bowl of wonton soup with tom yum base contains 220 calories, nine grams of fat, 27 grams of carbohydrates, one gram of fibre, five grams of sugar, eight grams of protein and a crazy 1730 milligrams of sodium. That’s so much sodium! That’s pretty much your entire days worth of sodium in one small soup! The amount of protein is also pretty disappointing to be honest.
Ingredients
The ingredients list is pretty extensive and there’s a few unhealthy ingredients like palm oil, sugars and refined soybean oil. The “shrimp flavor” and “milk flavor” also has me raising my eyebrows. I think if you make a soup from scratch at home you save yourself a lot of unnecessary ingredients. The soup contains shrimp, anchovy, wheat, soy and sesame.
Scoring
Taste: 7/10
Cost: 6/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 1/10 (There’s way too much sodium in this).
Overall
Give it a try if you know you like tom yum soup!
I think if you can handle spice/heat and know you like tom yum soup, you’ll enjoy these convenient individual bowls!
Have you tried the Costco Authentic Asia Hand-Wrapped Shrimp Wonton Soup with Tom Yum Base? What did you think of it?
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I would never eat it with that much salt content. Why is that necessary, and what are they hiding with all the salt?
Were I to try it, I’d need to pour off the broth and replace it with some low-salt broth I buy by the 6-pack at Costco. That works for me. I’d also add some veggies and a sprinkle of quinoa.