Ramen is a Japanese food serve in broth. It served in a meat-based broth, and uses toppings such as sliced pork, seaweed, green onion and sometimes corn.
According to historian, noodles originated from China over 4000 years ago and reached the Japanese culture much later on. In fact, we had to wait up to 19th century, in the Meiji period, for ramen to become widely known in Japan.
Salt ramen originated in Hokkaido in the Taisho era. The Japanese dish was originally called “Lamen”, but will be later referred to as “Ramen”, since there is no distinction between the 'L' and 'R' sounds in the Japanese language and it was a more popular way to express the word.
After the Second World War came an intense food shortage in Japan, a turning point in the history of noodles. Ramen were perfect and greatly helped Japan, they were cheap and a great source of needed calories. This due to cheap flour imported from United States.
A bit later, in 1958, Momofuku Ando, founder and chairman of Nissin Foods, invented the instant noodles, which are a lot closer to what the people eat today. It named the greatest “made in Japan” invention of the 20th century.
In 1970, Nissin Foods introduced the ramen to the United States. In 1972, ramen was produced in United States. 4000 years after the origin of the first noodles, ramen are known worldwide and are part of over 85 billions meals every year. Today, ramen are everywhere in Japan and across the world, and each province has it unique flavor and closely-guarded secret ingredient.
The term “Asian (oriental) noodles” is used very broadly to describe mostly noodle-like products produce mainly in Eastern, Southeastern or Pacific Asian countries using common wheat flour, rice (or rice flour) or other starch materials as the main structural ingredient.
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