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Cup Noodle Mystery Meat Festival sales suspended due to overwhelming demand

Master Blaster
Sep 16, 2016
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Generally mystery meat is something to be avoided, unless you’re talking about Cup Noodle brand mystery meat.

Japan
(business • Cup Noodle • Cup Noodle Mystery Meat Festival • Instant Ramen • mystery meat • Nissin)

Epic ad for instant ramen noodles shows all the great Japanese trends from the past year

Oona McGee
Jul 29, 2016

Test your knowledge of Japanese trends by spotting the “buzz points” in this action-packed commercial.

Japan
(ads • food • high school girl • Idols • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • samurai • Sumo)

Inventor of instant ramen noodles appears as Japanese samurai in awesome new animated rap video

Oona McGee
Jul 11, 2016

The beautiful animated visuals and rap soundtrack make it easy to learn Japanese and discover the history of instant noodles at the same time.

Japan
(cup noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese language • manga • Momofuku Ando • music • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • rap • samurai • videos • YouTube)

Blurring the bravery/stupidity line by taste-testing 16-year-old instant ramen 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Jun 6, 2016

And not just any 16-year-old ramen, but 16-year old ramen that was supposed to have been recalled.

Food & Drink, Japan
(crazy • food • funny • gross • Instant Ramen • Mr. Sato • Noodles • ramen • video)

World’s only Michelin-starred ramen is getting an instant noodle convenience store version

Casey Baseel
May 19, 2016

Famous Tokyo restaurant teams up with Circle K and Sunkus chains.

Food & Drink, Japan
(convenience stores • food • Instant Ramen • Michelin • Michelin Guide • Noodles • ramen • Tsuta)

Cup Noodle to release “Luxury Shark Fin” and “Softshell Turtle” flavors

Master Blaster
Mar 30, 2016

Nissin, the maker of Cup Noodle, is about to unroll a pair of “Luxury” flavors of instant ramen. And one of them is “shark fin”…

Food & Drink, Japan
(Cup Noodle • Cup Noodle Rich • Instant Ramen • shark fin • softshell turtle)

Sweating, snuggling models and voice actresses steam up series of spicy ramen ads 【Videos】

Casey Baseel
Mar 9, 2016

Dialogue, including “Master, would it be all right if I put you into my mouth?”, is just as sultry as the visuals.

Food & Drink, Japan
(ad • beautiful women • food • Instant Ramen • ramen • spicy food • video • voice actors)

Announcing the winners of the RocketNews24 Pikachu ramen giveaway contest!

Casey Baseel
Feb 19, 2016

After reading through a mountainous pile of entries, we’re ready to announce the four lucky instant noodle/Pokémon fans who’ve won some Pikachu ramen. Are you one of them? Read on to find out!

Japan, USA
(anime • contest • cup ramen • food • Instant Ramen • Pikachu • Pokemon • ramen • video games)

Boston clam chowder-flavored instant ramen docks in Japan

Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2016

The Pacific Rim meets the Atlantic seaboard in Japan’s newest flavor of instant ramen.

Japan
(clam chowder • cup noodles • food • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen)

We’re giving away Pikachu ramen in the RocketNews24 reader contest!

Casey Baseel
Jan 22, 2016

Want to get your hands on some genuine, Japan-only Pikachu ramen? Read on to find out how you can in our RocketNews24 reader giveaway!

Japan, USA
(anime • contest • food • giveaway • Instant Ramen • Pikachu • Pokemon • ramen • video games)

Artist Rumiko Takahashi’s popular characters Ranma and Lum have now become… instant ramen!

Kay
Dec 4, 2015

Fans of manga artist Rumiko Takahashi will be happy to know that a slightly unexpected new product featuring her work will soon be hitting stores—instant ramen!

Japan
(anime • Instant Ramen • manga • Noodles • Ranma 1/2 • Rumiko Takahashi • Urusei Yatsura)

We try Cup Noodle Ice Cream, filled with shrimp, meat, eggs, chives, and madness 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Aug 15, 2015

A few days ago, we heard that Nissin, maker of Cup Noodle, was now selling ice cream topped with meat, chives, and all the other fixings that are found in instant ramen at the Cup Noodles Museum. One of my coworkers, who lives not far from the Osaka Cup Noodles Museum, bravely volunteered to try it out, and I was all set to let him be our guinea pig, since I’ve already taken one for the RocketNews24 team as far as strange desserts go.

But as it turns out, the Cup Noodle Ice Cream is available exclusively at the second Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama. Hey, wait a second! That’s where I live!

Uh oh…

Japan
(crazy • Cup Noodle • ice cream • Instant Ramen • ramen • sweets • taste test • Yokohama)

All our culinary dreams come true with gyoza-flavoured cup ramen

Aleisha Riboldi
Aug 3, 2015

When it comes to ramen, nothing goes better than a side serving of gyoza (dumplings) washed down with a beer. Now our culinary dreams are about to come true with the release of gyoza-flavoured cup noodle ramen.

Japan
(cup ramen • food • gyoza • Instant Ramen • ramen)

Pikachu instant ramen costs less than a buck, would be awesome even without the free stickers

Casey Baseel
May 3, 2015

If you have a penchant for eating right, you’re no doubt familiar with the importance of a balanced diet that includes all of the major food groups. But even if you’re making sure to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, have you got the Pikachu food group covered?

Sure, you already know how to make a Pikachu burger, but if you’re looking to up your Pokémon intake (and skip having to do any real cooking yourself), you can now buy quick, convenient, and adorable Pikachu ramen.

Japan
(anime • food • Instant Ramen • nintendo • Pikachu • Pokemon • ramen • video games)

Website lets you eat ramen with handsome actor – Great for fans, sort of awkward if you’re not

Casey Baseel
Apr 5, 2015

Pretty much ever since it was invented, men have been the target market for instant ramen. That’s slowly starting to change, though, as companies are finding out that plenty of women, too, are interested in a hot, tasty meal that only takes three minutes to prepare.

Those three minutes, though, can seem awfully long when you’re sitting by yourself with nothing to do while you wait for your noodles to cook. So, Nissin, to celebrate the start of its new line of healthier, more cosmopolitan instant ramen aimed at women, has set up a special website where a handsome Japanese actor will keep you company while you cook and eat your instant ramen.

Japan
(actors • food • funny • Instant Ramen • ramen • Takumi Saito • weird)

Japanese tennis player Nishikori Kei lands himself on a cup of instant noodles

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Sep 17, 2014

Runner up in this year’s US Open, Kei Nishikori, is Japan’s golden boy at the moment. As the first male player from an Asian country to reach a Grand Slam singles final, Nishikori is not only a hero in the eyes of Japan as a whole, but of his hometown of Shimane, “Japan’s least popular prefecture.”

Much like successful athletes in the US can look forward to seeing their face on a box of Wheaties cereal, Kei Nishikori can now smile knowing that he’s reached the top of his career as a Japanese athlete by landing his likeness on a styrofoam container of Cup Noodle.

Japan
(Cup Noodle • Instant Ramen • Kei Nishikori • tennis • US Open)

We try Thai and Indonesian “Ethnic” Cup Noodles, one of them tastes like spicy Fruit Loops

Master Blaster
Apr 15, 2014

Cup Noodles are an iconic part of the Japanese food landscape and of course they’re no stranger to the Japanese custom of adding unusual new flavors to stuff. This time around their maker Nissin has been inspired by some of their international partners and developed two flavors in the “Ethnic Series” of Cup Noodles based on Thai and Indonesian dishes.

The first one is modeled after the spicy Thai soup tom yum goong, and the other is said to resemble Indonesia’s savory noodles mie goreng. Having just been released on 14 April we went straight to the supermarket and picked them up to bring you the Asianiest taste that only a Chinese food made by a Japanese company based on South East Asian dishes can provide.