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Instant noodles (ramen, ramen) - specially processed (for example, fried in oil) dry noodles, for the preparation of which it is enough to add hot water and the accompanying seasonings. The product is cheap and easy to prepare, making it one of the most popular dishes in the world.

The father of modern instant noodles is Momofuku Ando, a Taiwanese-born Japanese who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd and organized the world's first production of Chikin Ramen (chicken flavored) noodles in 1958. On August 25, 1958, a new product appeared on the food market in Japan.

Chikin Ramen Instant Noodles

Another milestone in this field is Nissin's "Cup Noodle", introduced in 1971. It can be prepared without the use of dishes directly in this cup. Subsequently, dried vegetables were added to the cup, which makes the dish a soup.

Momofuku Ando was born in 1910 in Japanese-occupied Taiwan. His parents died when he was a child and he was raised by his grandparents who owned a clothing company. When Ando was 22, he started his own business and moved to Osaka.

In 1934, he successfully graduated from the Ritsumeikan University School of Economics in Kyoto and received Japanese citizenship. Things were going well, but after the end of World War II, there was a decline. Ando was sentenced to prison in 1948 for tax evasion, and his company went bankrupt. However, Ando did not give up and soon started again from scratch, founding a company for the production of table salt. At this time, in the country that lost the war, famine reigned.

People were forced to stand in long lines for food. Therefore, Ando was very surprised when he heard that the Japanese Ministry of Health was literally urging people to eat bread made from American wheat received as humanitarian supplies. Noodles were a much more familiar dish for the Japanese, but the power of Japanese food companies was clearly not enough to supply the entire country. It was in this that Ando saw an opportunity to expand his business. He began experimenting with noodles, trying to make the dish delicious, inexpensive, and easy to make.

In fairness, it should be noted that he was not a pioneer in this matter: during the Chinese Qing Dynasty, noodles were fried in oil, after which it could be stored for a long time, and if necessary, it was quickly cooked by pouring boiling water. Whether Ando knew about this is unknown, but after trying various methods of preservation (salting and even smoking), he eventually came to the conclusion that the most effective of them was frying in palm oil with further final drying.

In 1958, Nissin Food Products' first product was introduced to the public under the name Chikin Ramen ("ramen" is a traditional Chinese and Japanese noodle soup).

At first, the new dish was expensive and considered a delicacy, but within a year, prices dropped and sales began to grow rapidly. In 1971, the company combined form and substance and launched its most successful product, which later became a world bestseller - Cup Noodles, noodles in a Styrofoam cup. Now it is one of the best-selling instant food products: in 2005, 85 billion packages were sold worldwide!

In 2000, answering a question about the main Japanese invention of the XNUMXth century, the Japanese unequivocally put in the first place not ultra-modern computers or electronic devices, but a simple and nutritious dish familiar to almost every modern person.

Author: S.Apresov

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