This name, “Menshokunin” means that noodle draft man in English. it means that this noodle apeal point is noodle.
Package explanation says that it’s like a raw-type noodle. certainly some instant noodle use raw type noodle even though it’s instant noodle. but in case of this instant noodle, noodle is dried noodle.
basically it’s very very difficult to realize raw-type feeling just by pouring hot water.
But recently some Japanese instant noodle company invent special technique and we can enjoy raw-type feeling even though it’s just an instant noodle.
this noodle is also successful as raw-type instant noodle.
Interesting taste soup! beef salt taste?
and this instant noodle’s soup is beef salt taste soup in according to package explanation.
such taste is not so popular in Japan. it’s very challenging taste.
It sound oily but it’s not so oily taste.
and surprisingly ingredients are erabolated.
it contain beef meat and green onion and tiny templa ball and red pepper.
I think you should eat this instant noodle instead of going to ramen shop.
eating video for you
Basic data
Product Name: Menshokunin Gyushiojitate
Generic name: Instant noodle
Category: Ramen noodle
Price: JPY170- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Nissin
Weight: 86g
Calorie: 309kcal (31 min Jogging to burn)
Package of Bourbon, Alfort chocolate say “Enjoy the superb taste of chocolate & biscuit made with the finest ingredients.”
this is chocolate on the small biscuit.
It is a representative snack of Japan.
I have never met the person who dislike this snack.
Mainly the reason is its delicious combination with chocolate and biscuit.
If this snack is only biscuit or only chocolate, it’s not so special.
But this unite of two different taste, biscuit and chocolate produce incredible taste experience with a just a one dollar.
Harmony of floury and dry biscuit and moist chocolate make you crazy. You definitely lose your control after one bite.
It’s really dangerous snack.
Appearance & Name
What is name of Bourbon, Alfort chocolate snack?
There is sailing ship picture on each piece. and package is blue. and compass picture is on the back.
and name is alfort.
There is no official announce about the name. but rumor say like this.
this snack concept is romance of exploration age. this is the reason sailing ship picture is on the snack, package color is sea blue, compass picture on the package.
and the name, “Alfort” mean port.
But nobody know which language is it.
Dose it mean really port? at least, google cannot designate which language it is.
They want to name it Port.
Port is gathering sailing ship around the world.
Something meet at the port.
In case of this snack, chocolate and biscuit meet.
so this is named alfort that means port.
but nobody know which language is it.
It’s very mysterious.
Maybe the marketing team of this rural countryside company made a mistake.
Yes, the company, Bourbon is located, Niigata, rural area.
they want to name it “Port”, but because of their poor english pronunciation and listening ability, they spell it not port but alfort.
You could say, “There’s no way that would happen.”
but you never know how poor Japanese people’s english is.
How can we mistake “Alfort” and “Port”?
You are right, but you never know how terrible Japanese english ability.
Anyway this unidentified name and impression of this snack is successful to give expensive foreign-made delicious snack image even though it’s only a 1 dollar or so and made by very countryside company..
Actually it is very very delicious.
Basic Data
Product Name: Alfort Generic name: Chocolate snack Category: snack Price: JPY120- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.) Brand: Bourbon Weight: 63 Calorie: 339kcal (34 min Jogging to burn)
Pino is one of the most popular ice cream in Japan. Yes, it’s popular Japanese ice cream.
Trapezial ice cream is cover with chocolate. Size is about eyeball.
It contains six in one package. Each ice cream is put on the plastic tray neatly.
And it also contain one pin to poke ice cream.
Who use this pin!
This ice cream is covered with chocolate, so we can pick up without being sticky. So I think we need not pin.
I think these tray & pin are waste of cost. They push up the price.
This ice cream company, Morinaga should beef up ice cream instead of unnecessary things.
Outside is chocolate taste because it cover with chocolate. And inside is vanilla ice cream taste. it’s very simple taste.
Star wars’ director, George Lucas steal idea of this ice cream shape?
Who can say star wars don’t steal the idea of Pino shape?
This ice cream, Pino start to sell in 1976. soon this become very popular in Japan because it’s very delicious.
Strangely Star wars is released next year. and surprisingly same shape character is starred in Star wars.
Yes it’s Darth Vader.
Darth Vader’s head shape is same to this ice cream, Pino.
I don’t want to say Gerge lucas steal the idea of this ice cream shape. But you will say it because shape is same.
But Japanese people cannot resist USA because of political problem.
it is not not star wars, it’s earth wars.
it’s matter of politic?
It’s a bad taste story, but this ice cream is good taste. Please check how delicious by seeing my eating video.
Basic data
Product Name: PINO
Generic name: Ice cream
Category: snack
Price: JPY120- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Morinaga
Weight: 60ml
Calorie: 192kcal (19 min Jogging to burn)
Taiwan ramen noodle is Japanese food? political problem?
If you don’t know Japanese language, you think this is one of Japanese instant noodle with spicy package design.
But actually it is really confusing instant noodle.
Because name of this instant noodle is “Taiwan Ramen”, it means “Taiwanese ramen noodle. And sub title says this taste is Nagoya taste. Nagoya is one of the big cities in Japan. So we can say this is Japanese taste Taiwanese ramen noodle.
You will say, “Japanese taste Taiwanese ramen noodle? I understand it. It’s not seemed to be so special. What is the surprising point?
Now I answer it.
Surprising point is Taiwan ramen noodle is only in Japan. You cannot eat Taiwan ramen noodle in Taiwan because it was created Taiwanese who live in Japan as Japanese food.
If you go to Taiwan and order Taiwan ramen noodle, Taiwan people cannot understand Taiwan ramen noodle.
Of course there are lots of ramen noodle in Taiwan. All ramen noodles in Taiwan are not Taiwan ramen noodle that Japanese people think.
And I must say this confusing ramen noodle is no relation with Chinese political problem. 😛
Story of Taiwan ramen noodle.
this Tainanese restaurant at Nagoya “Misen” invent Taiwan ramen in Japan.
Taiwan ramen noodle is created by Taiwanese cook who is owner of Taiwan restaurant “Misen” in Nagoya.
Nagoya is famous for spicy miso. So this Taiwanese cook adds this spicy miso with ordinary Taiwan ramen noodle (Dan zai noodles).
And this Taiwan cooks master start to sell this ramen noodle as Taiwan noodle ramen even though such ramen noodle don’t exist in Taiwan.
Because this Taiwan ramen noodle is delicious, it spread gradually.
But sadly Nagoya district don’t have big influence in Japan, Taiwan ramen noodle become famous only in Nagoya and it become Nagoya’s local product.
Even now, lots of Japanese people think Taiwan ramen noodle is Taiwan’s product.
But Taiwan ramen noodle is Nagoya’s local product that is completely different to ramen noodle in Taiwan.
But these things are not big matter. It never is important thing.
How is this instant noodle?
On the top of package, small package is attached. This is seasoning oil. Basically seasoning package is inside. I don’t know why this instant noodle put it outside.
Package says we must put it after cooking.
And package says this dried noodle is not using oil (Non fly method). Maybe it is little bit healthy.
Contents of this instant noodle.
After opening package, you can see noodle with ingredients.
Freed dried meat, Chinese chive and chili pepper.
This red chili pepper gives me the spicy impression.
How is taste of this instant noodle?
This is original Taiwan ramen noodle by Misen.
When I poured hot water, it become red immediately.
But it is certainly spicy but not so too spicier.
And meat and Chinese chive is light but not so different to package picture.
And this spicy taste is mixed with miso. So it is very dense and mild spicy taste.
After several minuits, my forehead start to sweat.
This soup will go with rice ball.
Tell the truth, I have never eaten real Taiwan ramen noodle. It is difficult to find out ramen shop that have Taiwan ramen noodle in Tokyo.
Next time I go to Nagoya, I want to eat real Taiwan ramen noodle.
Eating video for you
Basic data
Product Name: Taiwan ramen
Generic name: Instant noodle
Category: Ramen noodle
Price: JPY195- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Myojo
Weight: 89g
Calorie: 334kcal (33 min Jogging to burn)
Small package is attached on the top. this is seasoning oil.
it say this noodle is made by “steam non fried method”. I don’t know the detail but anyway it don’t use oil.
before pouring hot water is like this
Soup is red. ingredients is not so big quantity.
noodle is not so special. but soup is red. yes it’s spicy.
In Japan, Maruchan’s representative work is not Ramen
In Japan, if we hear the name of Maruchan, all people remind of “Akai kitsune” and “Midori no Tanuki”.
Because Maruchan’s TVCM have kept shouting “Maruchan Akai kitsune to Midori no Tanuki” until now by famous TV actor, Testuya Takeda who is not handsome.
Akai Kistune means red fox. It’s Udon instant noodle.
Midori no Tanuki means green raccoon. It’s Soba sintant noodle.
These noodle is long sales products and also basic items for Japanese middle class hungry people.
What is Soba noodle?
Soba noodle is not Ramen noodle.
Soba (そば or 蕎麦?) is the Japanese name for buckwheat. It is synonymous with a type of thin noodle made from buckwheat flour, and in Japan can refer to any thin noodle (unlike thick wheat noodles, known as upon).
If you don’t know about Japanese noodle culture, you cannot know the difference between ramen and soba. But it’s completely different concept.
I think one of the biggest differences is oil. Ramen use lots of oil to get taste. But soba don’t use it.
So health conscious people love to eat soba.
And this Soba instant noodle is with Tempura.
Tempura is best partner to Soba noodle.
It is very popular way to eat Soba with Temura.
Soba don’t use oil, but Tempura is fried with oil.
So Soba is healthy but if you put tempura into Soba, Soba become oily and not so healthy.
But Soba with Tempura is very delicious.
Almost all Japanese people eat Soba with tempura.
And this Soba instant noodle understands it.
If you see this tempura, you think it seem to be some snack.
Yes, we can say tempura is kind of snack.
But Tempura is even so tempura.
How is this Soba instant noodle?
And this instant noodle’s tempura is not like real tempura.
This instant noodle’s tempura makes effort to be real tempura taste.
I admit it. It’s good taste. This tempura contains shrimp, and bits of fried tempura batter with green laver.
This complicated food material creates good taste harmony.
Appearance is fan to see.
What the point of this instant noodle?
Package says “smell is very rich and taste is high class. It use dried bonito shavings. If bonito stock is delicious, soup is also delicious.”
According to this catch phrase, they are in confident in this soup.
Yes, this soup is bit salty with soy source taste. After that, I can feel the bonito stock taste.
It’s really amazing because this instant noodle realize real Soba taste.
If you have no chance to go to real Soba shop, you can enjoy same taste experience with this instant noodle, Midori no Tanuki.
this is tempura.this is powder soup and spicethis is noodle before pouring hot water
this is power soupit’s before pouring hot waterIt say, If bonito stock is delicious, soup is also delicious.
Ideal vs Real !
Eating video for you
Basic Data
Product Name: Midorino Tanuki
Generic name: Instant noodle
Category: Soba
Price: JPY170- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Maruchan (Toyo suisan)
Weight: 100g
Calorie: 476kcal (47min Jogging to burn)
This snack is one of the master piece of Japanese cheap snack.
Almost all Japanese people know this small snack.
You could not believe it because please see this package. It is never stylish.
Maybe same Microsoft package designer design this package.
This never stimulates consumer interest. But this is long-selling snack.
It’s one of the best selling snack in Japan.
Why this is best selling?
Why?
I don’t know.
It’s really strange, because this snack company is very minor.
All most all Japanese know this snack, but all most all Japanese people never know this snack company.
So the reason this snack become best selling is two reason.
It’s very delicious & it’s very cheap.
It’s very delicious. It’s JPY30-, about USD0.3-.
This cheap price enables to purchase it by lots of people, from rich people like a Bill gates to middle class people like me.
And even if it’s cheap price, this taste is not so bad. Or I can say it’s delicious.
This is Arare with cheese flavor.
What is Arare?
according to wikipedia
Arare (あられ?, which is named after graupel “snow pellets”) is a type of bite-sized Japanese cracker made from glutinous rice and flavored with soy sauce. The size and shapes are what distinguish arare from senbei. The name is chosen to evoke snow pellets ? smaller arare are similar in size and shape to snow pellets, though others can vary significantly in size, flavor and shape. Arare is also called kakimochi or mochi crunch in Hawaii where it was introduced in the 1900s.
Japanese advanced management’s rationalization
If you think of cheese taste snack, you imagine oily and strong cheese taste. but this rice cracker is not so oily and cheese flavor is so mild. Yes, taste is so elegant.
maybe this snack company tries to cut cost by reducing oil and cheese. and they employ cheap Microsoft desinger for package design, maybe.
but this management’s rationalization happens to make this cheap snack more tasty and elegant, even though design is still cheap.
I strongly recommend eating this cheap snack. Please check this mild, light subtle taste.
Or if you don’t have oppotunity to eat this snack, just see my eating video instead of eating it.
Eating video for you
Basic data
Product Name: Cheese arare
Generic name: snack
Category: rice cracker
Price: JPY30- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Nakamura seika
Weight: 20g
Calorie: ?kcal (?min Jogging to burn)
Sometimes I eat snack while I do elimination. But it’s not so many times.
I know it is not good table manner and its bad hygiene.
But sometimes I cannot help eating snacks because of my stomach condition.
Basically I don’t care about appearance when I eat snacks.
But when I eat Karintou in toilet, I am really surprised because I notice that Karintou look like poop.
Until then I don’t feel nothing when I eat Karintou. But from then, I feel like eating poop.
Taste is never like a poop. Or exactly I don’t know the taste of poop. But Karintou krisps is maybe not taste of poop.
Karintou taste is sweet. This sweet is not like a chocolate or candy sweet. This sweet is like a donuts. And texture is little bit hard.
According to wikipedia
Karinto (花林糖 karint??, (ateji)) is a traditional Japanese snack food. Sweet and deep-fried, it is made primarily of flour, yeast, and brown sugar. It has a deep brown and pitted appearance, and takes the form of a “bite-sized” pillow or short cylinder. Although traditional karinto is coated with brown sugar, recently other variations appear in the market, such as white sugar, sesame seeds, miso, or peanuts.
I recommend eating Karinto but don’t eat it in Toilet. If someone finds you eating it in Toilet,
you will be misunderstood as poop eater. You will lose important part of your life.
Detail Pictures of karinto krisps
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Basic data
Product Name: Kuro karintou
Generic name: snack
Category: sweet snack
Price: JPY100- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Lawson
Weight: 135g
Calorie: 651kcal (65min Jogging to burn)
This is chocolate snack. In this plastic package, there is small grain shaped chocolate.
If you are normal brain adult, you cannot eat one by one.
You will eat them at least 5 drops at one time, because each drop is very small.
Size is bigger than booger but smaller than tooth.
It contains 132 drops. But each size is very small.
If you are adult, you will finish eating all 132 drops in 5 second.
This plastic case is very gorgeous. But chocolate quantity is small.
Chocolate size is baby, but it is also choco for baby.
It’s not satisfied chocolate snack even though it is delicious!
But now I have soloution for this unsatisfuction.
maybe i should buy more Choco babys.
Eating video for you
Basic data
Product Name: Choco baby
Generic name: snack
Category: Chocolate snack
Price: JPY100- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Meiji
Weight: 34g
Calorie: 186kcal (18min Jogging to burn)
Potato chip is famous for unhealthy foods. It use too much oil, and very salty.
But strangely it is delicious. So it’s big cause of obesity in USA or other country.
So I think Potato Chip Company should make effort to make potato chip healthy to improve our healthy life.
But this potato chip, Chicken ramen stick never do such effort.
They make effort to make unhealthy food more.
They make potato chips with instant noodle taste!
that instant noodle is “Chikin ramen”. that is Nissin’s products. but potato chip company, “Koikeya” make potato chips that taste chikin ramen taste.
this is original Chikin ramen instat noodle.
Instant noodle is also one of the unhealthy foods.
This instant noodle taste potato chips must be completely bad for health, but strangely it stimulates our appetite.
Maybe it’s a stupid who buys this potato chips and I am stupid.
misleading package design
If you don’t understand Japanese, you misunderstand that this is instant noodle because package show instant noodle picture.
But this is just a potato chip with instant noodle taste.
This instant noodle with potato chips picture makes me thirst very much.
Potato chips picture make me thirst, instant noodle picture make me thirst. so this package picture make me thirst very much.
and this package also says that this potato chips is very crispy.
I want to say, I know i know. we can know it by just seeing piture!
According to the package explanation, it uses special bowl fry method. this is the reason this potato chips is very crispy.
How about texture of this potato chips!
This chips shape is flat square shape. Or I can say it is stick shape.
so if your mouth is small, you can throw it into your moth easily.
It’s very good potato design.
And if you see it carefully, it’s really oily and salty.
Yes, you can know it’s oily and salty visually.
How about taste!
It’s certainly chicken ramen noodle taste.
But now I think. If you want to enjoy chikin ramen taste, you can eat instant noodle directly as a snack.
Do we need to eat chikin ramen noodle taste potato chips?
But if you are the strange person who want to taste instant noodle and potato chip at the same time, this potato chips is your choice.
Anyway, tell the truth, it’s delicious. lol
Eating video for you
Basic data
Product Name: Chikin ramen stick
Generic name: snack
Category: potato chips
Price: JPY100- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Koikeya
Weight: 67g
Calorie: 348kcal (35min Jogging to burn)
kuroi = black > it’s a theme color of this instant noodle.
Buta = pig > it means it contain pig meat.
curry = curry > it’s a taste of soup
udon = udon noodle
so this instant noodle is we can say, curry udon noodle with pig meat.
In case of this product, black have no special meaning.
What is curry udon ?
Udon is one of Japanese cook that eat with bonito stock soup. Before time, we never eat it with curry, but one udon shop owner try sell Udon mixing with curry because curry is popular at that time. and curry udon become popular in Japan because it is delicious.
The person who invents curry udon is Master of Sanchouan restaurant at Waseda.
Why nobody recommend going to Sanchouan?
this is Sanchouan restaurant that have long history and good requation but nobody recomend to go
This Sanchoan is very famous. And it has long history. Its old establish restaurant. So there is lots of customer every day. But this Sanchouan restaurant is very famous as nobody recommended restaurant. Do you know why? Because it is not so delicious.
But strangely lots of people go to these restaurants even if people recommend not going.
Now I have idea to raise food quality of this Sanchouan restaurant.
Sanchouan restaurant should stop to cook and just sell Maruchan curry udon with hot water, and people start to recommend going to Sanchouan restaurant.
content
it contains one powder soup and one ingredients package.
This powder soup is big size. And ingredients package contain freeze dry pig meat and carrot & green onion.
taste
Noodle is very wavy, and soup is very gooey. So noodle is twined around the gooey soup. So we noodle become deep curry taste.
Curry soup is certainly curry taste but this curry taste is tuned up as curry udon soup, so it is not ordinals curry taste.
It is very different to curry. This curry udon is delicious as curry udon.
Curry is curry. But curry udon is not curry. Curry udon is curry udon.
If you have opportunity, I recommend eating this instant noodle. This is really delicious.
If you don’t have opportunity to eat it yet, please see my eating video instead.
noodle is very wavy
this is pig meat
Eating video for you
Basic data
Product Name: Kuroi buta Curry udon
Generic name: Instant noodle
Category: curry udon
Price: JPY100- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: Maruchan
Weight: 87g
Calorie: 391kcal (39min Jogging to burn)
Product name: UCC The Coffee Satou Zero (Non sugar)
UCC is name of this company, “Ueshima Coffee Co.,Ltd.” and product name is The coffee Satou Zero (non sugar coffee). it’s a very simple name. Nobody misunderstand to buy it while lots of company try to name complicated one to sell more.
and sub line say
– Quantity is x1.2
– It use Whipped Cream made at Hokkaido
– it don’t use artificial sweetener
so we imagine it will be sweet even though it don’t use sugar. and it is cost saving because quantity is x1.2.
How about tasste?
It’s amazing because it is little bit sweet even though it don’t use sugar. or I should say it is creamy coffee without sweet.
Some Japanese people love sweet cold coffee. but some Japanese love non sugar cold coffee. we believe these canned drink use too many sugars and it is not good for health.
But maybe lots of Japanese people want to drink sweet coffee, so this company make effort to add sweet without using sugar.
it amazing business effort.
Why I bought it?
But tell the truth, i dont care about it so much. I just want pull back car toy.
It is NISSAN Z car, 8 types.
S30, PS30, HS30, Z30, Z31 , Z32, Z33, Z34
this toy is very sophisticated model and surprisingly it run by pulling back.
This pull back toy seem to be expensive more than coffee.
Drinking video for you
http://youtu.be/JQDN9As6dF8
Basic data
Product Name: UCC The coffee Satou zero
Generic name: Caned coffee
Category: Coffee
Recepie: Coffee by UCC original manufacturing process.
Price: JPY147- (You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand: UCC
Weight: 300g
Taste: Really creamy and bit sweet coffee taste
Package says this is “Langue de chat”, that is French cookie. It means Cat tongue. Langue de chat is cat tongue in French. But this Japanese snack’s name is “Horn”.
What is horn? Animal born or music instrument? Anyway this naming is really confusing. Because snack package say it’s cat tongue, but name is horn.
Langue de chat seems to be popular cookie in French. But French people maybe never notice this is Langue de chat. Because original langue de chat should be cat tongue shape and light brown color.
this is french Langue de chat
This color is not Langue de chat, this shape is not Langue de chat. And this taste is not Langue de chat too. This taste is Match taste, Japanese green tea taste chocolate cookie. And name is horn.
Brave try never be understood by Japanese customer
I don’t know why they try to mix many taste. Just a small cheap snack. You can swallow it with few chewing. Tasting is only few second.
Original Langue de chat is already delicious snack. There is risk to lost good taste by mixing other taste.
But Japanese snack company is brave enough to do that.
this brave try will need advanced technology. I think we should that advanced technology to fix nuclear power plant.
Anyway Japanese people never know what is Langue de chat. and They don’t understand English nor French. They buy it because package is beautiful. That is Japanese. And I bought it because I am also Japanese.
Elaborated package design system.
Not only color and picture is beautiful but also shape is elaborated. If you see the side of package, package edge is round. And if you open the cover, notch is also rounded.
And you can find beautiful green aluminum package neatly lined in package.
This give us small gorgeous feeling. or feel like a buying expensive stomach medicine.
And I am surprised package cover system. We can easily and beautifully close cover again. It great gimmick.
All these detail enhance my snack time experience.
Lose to Burberry? But taste of this snack win to Burberry shirts
Before tasting, cookie itself is artistic. I cannot find suitable word because I am not poet. But daringly say it’s like an expensive Chinese BURBERRY shirts design.
Maybe Chinese company mistakenly sue this Japanese snack company for violate their trademark right of copy Burberry.
Now tasting time.
Outside is crispy. And it’s sweet cookie but mixed with slightly bitter green tea taste. Inside is mild sweet chocolate. This chocolate’s hardness is like a whip cream.
Bit bitty but mainly sweet and crispy cookie at first but whippy inside chocolate. All elements lead you to happy time.
This chocolate snack is good job, this snack taste win to Burberry shirt, if Burberry shirts have taste.
If you don’t know Japanese language, you think this is one of Japanese instant noodle with spicy package design.
