Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
On this page, you can find the making instructions for popular Japanese instant noodles.
You might associate Weipa (味覇/ウェイパー) with seasoning from China, but it is a product from the Kobe, Hyogo-based company, Kouki Shoko (廣記商行) well-versed in Chinese food culture. Weipa is a multi-purpose Japanese-style Chinese seasoning...
Like House Foods’ Umaka-chan (うまかっちゃん), some Japanese instant noodles are mainly available in Western Japan, and here in Niigata, they are hard to get unless bought online. The Kinchan Noodle (金ちゃんヌードル) that Tokushima Seifun/Milling...
At the end of March (2023), Myojo (明星) Foods added a new series called Locabo Noodles (ロカボ Noodles) (released on 27th March) to their cup ramen lineup, and now, you can see its commercial...
At the end of February of this year (2023), there was big news from Nissin; Their Cup Noodle Sio (塩: salt) was replaced by Negishio (ねぎ塩: green onion salt) after 21 years have passed...
Japanese cup ramen comes in various unique & quirky flavors, and some are pretty luxurious, like this truffle ramen from Nissin’s Raoh series. The manufacturer’s suggested retail price is 500 yen (excluding tax), which...
Recently, I discovered a tasty instant cup ramen with a rare ingredient called Shiro-Ebi (白えび: white shrimp) in a nearby Welcia drugstore. The product is from the Aichi-based food company 寿がきや, but the shrimp...
The product mentioned in the previous post, Soup Harusame (スープはるさめ), is an instant cup of glass noodle soup from the Japanese instant noodles manufacturer Acecook, first released in 2002 under the name of Harusame...
If you are an instant ramen fan, you may know Peyang Sauce Yakisoba, one of Japan’s top-selling instant yakisoba noodles, together with Nissin UFO. But what about Peyong? Peyong vs. Peyang Sauce Yakisoba Peyong...
