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Today we visited Yokohama to see the Cup Noodle Museum!

This is a museum dedicated to Cup Noodles, the original instant noodle. It’s also dedicated to the memory of their inventor, Momofuku Ando, who invented instant ramen in 1958 and cup ramen in 1971. He was said to eat an instant chicken ramen every day after inventing until his death at aged 96 in 2007.

The museum is small but full of charm, and we both loved the room showcasing Nissin ramen products over the last 50+ years.

That’s less than a third of what was on display! It was fun seeing all the flavors and packaging, and hunting for the unique ones such as the first licensed one (Doraemon, in 1976), a version in a transparent cup, or even one that came with a mini Gundam kit!

But the highlight surely was making our own cup noodle! For a measly ¥500 each, we first got to decorate our cups:

Then we got to turn a crank to add noodles:

Then an attendant added flavour and four toppings of our choice. KLS picked cheese, kimchi, onions and corn on chili flavour, and I went with shrimp, onions, egg and little chicken naruto on ‘original’ flavour (there was no chicken option):

They were then sealed and shrinkwrapped:

And lastly we got to package them into bubble pouches for a safe trip home. Here they are in our hotel room:

It was a load of fun for a piddly price. Will we ever eat them? Who knows? 🙂

We saw a lot more in Yokohama today including a ropeway, an observatory and some amazing shops. But I’m too tired to write any more right now so I’ll dedicate this one just to the noodle museum. It was great 🙂

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