The noodles are not dry, but come floating in water. I must admit, when I opened the package I was shocked by the smell. Somehow fishy / spoiled ?! But if you rinsed off the pasta well and then boil 3 minutes, the smell has disappeared. What remains is a tasteless pasta. From bite her differently than normal spaghetti, rather solid, comparable to thicker glass noodles. I've eaten the pasta with pesto and tomato sauce and Parmesan and have become totally fed up, tasted it also. The consistency and taste are a little different from real pasta, and the sauce is not liable as with regular pasta to the Shirataki noodles, but all honesty it is also only 8 kcal per 100g and no carbohydrates, and at Weight Watchers only a point (green, filling foods) for the 250g pack. I think because you can not complain. I will definitely order again!