Countries’ foods are also windows on their souls. In Olympic host country Japan, two unusual dishes, rice pizza and Cup Noodle ice cream, have plenty to say about Japanese traits of inventiveness, risk-taking and openness to foreign influences.
Now back to ramen, with — excuse the pun — a potted history.
Back to noodles, though. Horrified by food shortages that ravaged post-war Japan, impoverished former credit union worker Momofuku Ando hit upon the idea of turning surplus American wheat into ramen that hungry people could prepare with just hot water and a few minutes. Served only at the Cup Noodles Museum, in its fourth floor cafeteria, it’s made with the same powdered soup and freeze-dried toppings — onion, shrimp, chunks of egg and meat — used in actual Cup Noodles.
Nissin Foods spokesperson Kahara Suzuki says the ice cream — having tasted it, one hesitates to call it a dessert — embodies “what I would call a punk rock spirit that many Japanese people have.”
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