Instant noodle inventor Ando dies at 96

We brought in instant yakisoba and cup noodle for when we missed the mess hall and sold our C-rats to the local non-military Koreans -- 30-some years ago. They loved them. Maybe it was the shelf life.

Last I heard, C-rats had been replaced by MRE.

LM

 

Not just "ramen," but Instant Ramen and Cup Noodle.

The fact he was able to accomplish that rather late in his years is what I found inspiring.

 

Guess I have to spell it out for you...
'Ramen' was a play on 'amen'.
Get it?
Sigh....

 

This guy is guilty of 'killing' how many people? This stuff is the junk food we should really be complaining about.

 

Do you know Cup Noodle save the people who were suffered from the earthquake in Kobe in 1995? Nissin sent the tank lorries filled with boild water to devastated area and served Cup Noodle for hungry children.
I adore Mr. Ando and Nisshin's CSR.

 

Yes, I do remember that. And the Nisin logo flags at every distribution point.

 

Who could ever forget that? booboowambo doesn't get the point - fill their tummy's and leave them to a slow death.



Please read my post again. I said nothing against your idol's philanthropic nature. The tangled fat fried goo is what I have a problem with. It's a slow killer regardless of how much of it the fellow was willing to dump on Kobe.

 

The staple of college dorms across the USA,
The perfect camp food.
Picky eaters - no problem
Quick snack - yummy
Recipe extenders - mmm good.
Too much salt - yes but
Thank you Mr. Ando

 

considering the life expectancy of japanese is so high, it must be a reaallllllllll slow killer. ;)

all i know is...instant noodles saved my life (and money) back when i was in college. thanks, mr. ando!

 

Or just dehydrated? Would be cheaper than the stick-you-in-a-freezer fad in the USA, I suppose, although getting the right kind of hot water to reconstitute him might be rather difficult.

 

Any idea how the noodles are made? Then tell me what you think...

 

let us say he will "live on through his work"

bon appetit

 

>>111774
http://sc-smn.jst.go.jp/ayyyymm/meta/aB990601-047.asx
This is the process for making instant noodles.

Basically, fresh noodles are steamed in order to help digesting starch, and deep fried with 160℃ veritable oil after that.

So, what's the problem?

 

NO WAY: "Momofuku Ando is Japanese in the sense that he was born in Taiwan which was officially a part of Japan from 1895-1945. He *kept* his Japanese citizenship and lived in Japan.
Japan gave Ando a chance to become a success story."

In fact, he did not gain Japanese nationality until he was 38, in 1948. He was born of Chinese parents, married a Chinese wife, his kids are also of Chinese genepool. But for some reason, Ando was ashamed to be Taiwanese and never mentioned it in his bio or musuem. Sad how immigrants lose their true charactter sometimes when the dominant nation brainwashes and feeds them....

 

Have you been to Nisshin Museum? It definitely shows his early life in Taiwan and how his philosophies "the real life begin with enough food" came. He had clear Chinese identity but really wanted to help hungry Japanese people at that time.

The name Nisshin came from the First Sino–Japanese War. His ancestor moved to Taiwan after the conquest of Qing Dynasty against Ming Dynasty where his ethnic sense of belonging are. After Koxinga surrendered Jurchens, Taiwan was occupied by them, and ceded to Japan after the war. So the name of the company is a kind of homage for the war.

We cannot tell what he really felt to have Japanese citizenship with Chinese identity, but can say he never had lost his character by the "brainwash", and at least Japanese people was pleased to have this great business man whatever his origin was.