Hi, guys!
We will introduce to Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama, museum that we visited in 2nd day of Visit Japan Campaign.
Here we were able to see "first instant noodle in the world"
The first instant noodle is the "Chicken Ramen". From its birth and even after 58 years, up to now, it is still very popular products. Everyone in Japan, from children to adults, know this product.
The birthplace of instant noodle is Japan!
By the way, currently, instant noodles are eaten in the world for more than 100 billion meals per year. It means there are 200 million instant noodles eaten every day.
Inside the museum, there is a graph that illustrates the instant noodles consumption of every country in the world. Approximately 1 billion instant noodles have been eaten in Malaysia every year!
And, ... one of the best part of this museum is its instant noodle collections.
There are more than 3,000 instant noodle packages exhibited in Cup Noodle Museum.
Instant noodles from many countries all over the world are also exhibited here.
Museum guide gave us thorough explanation about history of instant noodle that began with the "Chicken Ramen"
It has been around 60 years since the birth of first instant noodle in the world “Chicken Ramen". Instant noodle with all of its varieties have spread all over the world.
In this museum, you can experience the making of "Chicken Ramen" from the very beginning: kneading the flour.
We participated in this tour and created our own original "Chicken Ramen".
Here’s the atmosphere of the experience.
First of all, we listened to the lecture. We got direction from the instructor about the process of making "Chicken Ramen"
By the way, bandana that everyone wears is Hiyoko-chan bandana, "Chicken Ramen" mascot. It’s so cute, isn’t it?
After washing our hands, and putting Cup Noodle Museum original Chicken Ramen apron, we mixed the flour and mixing water (KANSUI water). After that, while putting a little bit of mixing water (KANSUI water) to the flour, we kneaded the dough by hand, ...,it gradually became ball-shaped.
Next, pressed firmly with the rolling pin ...
Then used the noodle machine to continue shaping the dough.
And, this is the finished noodles dough!
For the package of "Chicken Ramen", we can also draw our own original illustrations. To ripen the dough, we rest it for a while. In the mean time, we challenged ourselves to make our own original package
After that, we extended the dough.
Turn the handle and put the dough of the machine, the dough is stretched to thin long noodles ....
If the noodle is thinner that one millimeter, we will cut it.
Can you see it? It looks like noodle now.
Once the noodles cut, put it on the colander scale so that the one person can get 100g. Then, steamed for 7 minutes.
After it was steamed, now it’s turn for seasoning.
Put seasoned hot soup noodles, stir quickly.
Shazam! The seasoning is completed!
Seasoned noodles were put to round container…
Finally, we fried the noodles in oil.
This way of frying noodles in oil may sound normal now, thanks to the inventor of Chicken Ramen, Momofuku Ando-san, who redo the process and research over and over again to complete this process so that the taste of the noodle can be preserved well.
After cooling off the heat, we put our "Chicken Ramen" into original package that we have made before.
Here, the original “Chicken Ramen” package we made.
We’ve also got Hiyoko-chan bandana as souvenir.
We took photos with Hiyoko-chan doll inside world instant noodle exhibition room. Hiyoko-chan is fluffy and very cute, I wanted to take her back home to Malaysia.
We also took last photo with Hiyoko-chan in front of Cup Noodle Museum.
The cute Hiyoko-chan is also very popular in Facebook.
Even if the page is in Japanese, you can still enjoy it guys!
→ https://www.facebook.com/nissinchikinramen
So, that’s our story. We were able to have fun experience making first instant noodle in the world "Chicken Ramen" in Cup Noodle Museum. There were also a lot of people of foreign tourists at that day.
Photo in front of the museum!
The building is so large that it can’t fit the frame!
This is goodbye between us and “Hiyoko-chan”.
Somehow “Hiyoko-chan” also got lonely... ??
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