Nissin Chicken Ramen: One of World’s First Instant Ramen
When it comes to Japanese instant ramen manufacturers, Nissin Food is the largest instant noodles company in Japan whose flagship cup ramen “Cup Noodles” are widely enjoyed around the world.
Nissin Chicken Ramen
The predecessor of Nissin, “Chuko Sosha (中交総社)” was founded in 1948 by Momofuku Ando, and later in 1958 taken over by Nissin Food.
In the same year, Nissin began selling the packaged instant ramen “Chicken Ramen (チキンラーメン)” which won over the hearts of customers.
In fact, known as the world’s first instant ramen that archived commercial success, Nissin Chicken Ramen is said to be the origin of instant ramen.
Features
Unlike the majority of recent instant noodles whose cooking instructions are quite complicated, Nissin Chicken Ramen is the simplest instant ramen that only comes with a golden brown disk of dried noodles.
As it has no flavor packets, all you need to prepare for this chicken-flavored ramen are boiling water, the dried noodle block, and a pot or a bowl for cooking ramen.
Cooking Instructions
On the back of the package, there are 2 cooking methods for this ramen introduced, both of which are very simple.
Pour boiling water into the bowl
One is just pouring 400ml boiling water into a bowl of the dried noodle block. Cover the bowl with a lid, wait for 3 minutes, and you can enjoy the chicken ramen.
Boil the noodles in a pot
The other is boiling the noodles in a pot of 450ml water as per usual just 1 minutes. No need of adding additional flavoring powder or liquid.
Taste
Despite being simple, Nissin Chicken Ramen is the best chicken flavored instant ramen for me ever. With a simple yet addictive chicken flavor, it tastes really great. To me, this is surely what is “Simple is Best”.
Ingredients and Nutrition Facts
Lastly, according to the ingredient list and nutrition facts label on the back of the package, Nissin Chicken Ramen mainly consists of wheat flour, vegetable fat and oil, soy sauce, salt, chicken extract, spices, sugars, protein hydrolyzate, egg powder, dextrin, flavor seasoning, and onion powder, and has 377 kcal per serving.
