Nissin Japan has a line of Cup Noodle instantaneous ramen merchandise with out the cup, so they’re cup-less! They’re just about identical to your common Cup Noodle you will get in Japan, however barely extra environmentally pleasant as they do not have the cup and shrink wrap. I had heard about these years in the past, however in my many journeys to Japan, I had by no means run throughout them in a retailer till I went to the tenting items part of the Yodobashi Digicam close to Kyoto Station. There are extra flavours than the hen and the shoyu flavours I purchased, and I sort of want I may have discovered a curry flavour too. They’re worth just about like common cup noodles.
The packaging for these noodles is hermetic, made out of a thick plastic, and vacuum packed to protect their contents. The shelf-life for these noodles needs to be a few years (as a result of the noodles are fried) for those who get it recent out of the manufacturing facility. These noodles are useful as all they want are boiling water and the endurance to attend three minutes. You principally take them from the package deal, put it into a bigger mug that may match them, and add the boiling water to arrange them. These are useful to take in case you are tenting or as emergency rations as they arrive with ramen toppings, identical to in an everyday cup, and are extra full and house environment friendly than an everyday block of sq. noodles.
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| 3/4 view of the 2 sorts of cup-less ramen I purchased. |
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| High of the chikin ramen package deal (its hen, however many translations name it chikin). That is the unique instantaneous ramen flavour when instantaneous ramen was invented for the primary time. |
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| Common Shoyu (soy sauce) flavour instantaneous ramen. That is the flavour that was within the first Cup Noodle ever invented. It was an innovation to eat your noodles from a cup. Each of those merchandise are firsts and that is nonetheless a cup of noodle favorite for the lots. |
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| All the dietary, manufacturing and elements info. Very information dense. |
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| You possibly can inform that is hen from the usual orange color the common packages use. All the dietary, manufacturing and elements info. Very information dense. |
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| Facet view of the 2 sorts of noodle blocks. You possibly can see it’s designed to slot in a mug or a reusable Cup Noodle cup that Nissin makes. Simply put in a small pot of boiled water for tenting! |
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| Backside view of the noodle packages. It’s manufactured from sturdy plastic. |
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| The hen ramen peeled open. You see preparation instructions on the underside of the package deal high. |
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| Closeup of the instructions to indicate you that you should utilize a microwavable cup, and the right way to put the noodles right into a cup by placing the cup on high of the open package deal, then inverting it to drop the noodle block down. |
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| Each of the noodle packages opened. The toppings are on the backside of the package deal. |
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| Each of the noodle blocks in bowls so you may see them in contrast subsequent to one another. You possibly can see they principally took the cylindrical cup noodle block and put them into the plastic packaging. |
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| You undoubtedly get extra toppings within the common shoyu cup noodle. It really seems actually good. The toppings are their floor pork blocks, egg, shrimp, and inexperienced onion. |
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| The hen ramen. You get numerous inexperienced onion and egg for toppings. |
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| After including boiled water, I lined up the bowl for 3 minutes and received this tasty set of hen ramen. |
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| You possibly can see the noodles and bits of egg right here. |
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| That is the common shoyu noodle block after rehydrating. You needed to stir each sorts of noodles effectively to make sure the soup base blended in. |
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| Closeup of the bottom pork, shrimp, and egg. |
Each sorts of noodles tasted just about like I anticipated them to. The hen ramen was the traditional, barely smokey, hen flavour. The shoyu was the regualr Cup Noodle flavour that’s fairly widespread as it’s a straightforward, savoury soy flavour to get pleasure from. Each of those are consolation flavours that folks have come to like.
I’ve reviewed these flavours and extra in these hyperlinks beneath.
The Unique Rooster Ramen – A Style of Historical past
Nissin Large Cup Noodle Extravaganza
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