Category: Maruchan (Toyo suisan)

Maruchan’s master piece, “Midori no Tanuki” is Soba noodle with tempura

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Post date 2014-04-10
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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.

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Maruchan's master piece, Midori no Tanuki is Soba noodle with tempura0007 — this is powder soup and spice

Maruchan's master piece, Midori no Tanuki is Soba noodle with tempura0008 — this is noodle before pouring hot water

Maruchan's master piece, Midori no Tanuki is Soba noodle with tempura0010 — this is power soup

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Maruchan's master piece, Midori no Tanuki is Soba noodle with tempura0012 — It say, If bonito stock is delicious, soup is also delicious.

Maruchan's master piece, Midori no Tanuki is Soba noodle with tempura0013 — Ideal vs Real !

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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)

Tags Instant noodle, salty

Instant noodle Maruchan (Toyo suisan)

Eat Maruchan curry udon noodle (pig meat include) instead to go to Sanchouan restaurant at Waseda

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Post date 2014-03-24
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Name of this instant noodle.

What is this name, “Kuroi buta curry udon”?

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?

santyouan — 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.

Eat Maruchan curry udon noodle (pig meat include) instead to go to Sanchouan restaurant at Waseda (3) — noodle is very wavy

Eat Maruchan curry udon noodle (pig meat include) instead to go to Sanchouan restaurant at Waseda (2) — this is pig meat

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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)

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Instant noodle Maruchan (Toyo suisan)

Michelin class taste instant salt flavor fried noodle with sea foods & vegetables, “Ore no Shio” by Toyo suisan.

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Post date 2013-10-16
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Origin of this instant noodle name

This instant noodle name, “Ore no shio” means My salt. “Ore no” means “my” & “Shio” means salt. maybe you think it’s strange name.

This name remind Japanese people that two things. One is name of one manga, “Ore no sora”. this manga dashing guy’s story. “Ore no sora”. this means My sky.

This is Manga, "Ore no sora". — This is Manga, “Ore no sora”.

another thing is name of restaurant chain, “Ore no Italian”, “Ore no French”, “Ore no Yakitori” , “Ore no kappou”, “Ore no Yakiniku”etc…. This restaunrants chain is very popular in Japan now because we can eat very delicious food with very cheap price. Owner of this restaurant chain says “Concept of this “Ore no” restaurant chain is cheap price but Michelin class dish.

Maybe this company marketing team try to use this restaurant chain image. They maybe want to say that this instant noodle is Michelin class taste.

But don’t expect too much. it’s just a Instant noodle that we can buy it with a few dollars.

This is top view.

Side view.

Bottom view. there are some nutrition information.

And I rip off plastic cover.

there are lots of pictures and text. these are instruction how to cook.

Yes, it’s just instant noodle. just pouring hot water is all thing what it need. but maybe Michelin class instant noodle need very complex instruction.

It says at first, after open top cover, we must pick out three small package. Top cover peel off between A line and B line. and three small package is three different kind packages.

Second, put seasoning on the noodle and pour hot water according to water level line marked inside.

Third, rip off C parts slowly according to arrowed line.

Fourth, hold corner of package firmly, and lean slowly and drain hot water from drain hall. (Be careful burn injury)

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Fifth, ripp off top cover completely and add liquid seasoning source softly, after that, add powder seasoning sauce. and Please eat it.

Now you can understand all cooking process of this instant noodle.

These are three different kinds small seanoning packeges.

This is noodle before pouring hot water.

This is freeze dry sea seasoning. (See food & vegetable)

scollop, sea weed, carrot and cabege and green onion.

After pouring hot water inside, we must rip off this C part. this is drain hall cover.

This is drain hall to drain hot water.

I add liquid & powder seasoning sauce.

and scramble up with chop stick.

This is scollop.

Excuse me sir, Now ready to eat this Michelin class instant noodle !

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**Basic data**
Product Name	Ore no shio
Generic name	Instant noodle
Category	Fried noodle
Recepie	Salt fravor Fried noodle (Actually boiled noodle) with sea foods and vegitable.
Price	JPY170-(You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand	Toyo suisan co.,ltd
Taste	Salty and sea food taste.
Food texture	Weavy noodle is tangle with seasonings and sauce.
Comment	This fried noodle is not so oily and taste is plain. But you can taste sea foods and vegetable and salt flavored fried noodle. Inspite of instant noodle, you can enjoy healthy taste food feeling.

Tags Instant noodle, salty

Instant noodle Main dish Maruchan (Toyo suisan)

Yamitsukiya Negidaku Tonkotsu, Japanese instant noodle engineer nearly surpass Madonna plastic surgery

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Post date 2013-07-05
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Power of Negi (Green onion)

Negi is one of the most popular seasoning especially for Ramen noodle in Japan. Adding more negi make Ramen noodle the more delicious. But strangely it is disgusting taste if you eat only negi. When you eat it with Ramen noodle, it’s good.

it’s like the plastic surgery. only plastic surgery is disgusting, but it is very good if it is with Madonna. adding more plastic surgery make Madona make more good.

So I found out this instant noodle, I bought it in second because this instant noodle say that it with lots of Negi.

Negi daku means that too much green onion.
Negi is green onion, Daku means that too much.

Tonkotsu means pork back bone.
Pork back bone is very popular cooking parts for Ramen noodle.
But after finishing payment for this instant noodle, I start to be suspicious about this instant noodle.

because green onion is kind of vegetable. Vegetable is juicey meanwhile Instant noodle is basically very dried condition. I cannot imagine such juicey onion can be in instant noodle. But I believed in Japanese instant noodle engineer who produce this noodle. Believing is only what I could do at this time.

In the package, there are three seasoning.

1, powder soup
2, Liquid soup
3. Kayaku (freeze dried seasonings)

Amazingly this instant noodle have two different type soups seasoning. Why there are two ? it’s just instant noodle. only one is enough. But maybe Japanese instant noodle engineer tried to establish their ideal taste by mixing two different seasoning. The fact that these are two seasoning make my motivation explosion.

this is power soup,

and this is liquid soup.

3rd seasoning is this time main feature. it’s negi.
at a glance, green onion is not so much. it put me in anxiety. I spent money to taste too much negi. But see this quantity of negi, it’s not so much ! What happen to Japanese instant noodle engineer !

But I have opened package already. i cannot refund it. I accepted to eat it with regret.

But miracle happen ! after pouring hot water, and waited for 4 minute. and open cover package, I really surprised to see inside Negi. 3rd seasoning is swollen like Madonna face after plastic surgery. Plenty of negi spread on noodle surface.

Japanese instant noodle engineer never betray customer !

This negi condition is what I was hoping for. It completely satisfy my appetite instinct.

And yes, soup is also not bad ! I must say this instant noodle is luxury.

I can spend happy eating time with this instant noodle.

If you are negi lover, I recommend this instant noodle.

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**Basic data**
Product Name	Yamitsukiya Negidaku Tonkotsu
Generic name	Instant noodle
Category	Tonkotsu soup
Recepie	Tonkotsu taste with Negi and minced meat and sesame.
Price	JPY220-(You can check your country currency value by currency converter of within this site.)
Brand	Toyo suisan co.,ltd
Taste	pork back bone soup is very thick and mild and oily. Negi give flesh feeling in this pulpy soup.
Food texture	Noodle is thin and bit wavy.
Comment	Thin instant noodle can achieve real Ramen even though cheap price. Very good cost performance.

Tags Instant noodle