Instant rāmen
Rāmen, the Japanese noodle soup we have come to know so well in recent years. Or so we think. The rāmen dish reveals a lot about the history of Japanese cuisine, how it came to be and the future of packaging.
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Rāmen: a food Japan made its own
story by Anne van der Linden.Rāmen is one of many dishes in the current Japanese cuisine that came from elsewhere, and has been adapted to suit the Japanese taste. What is rāmen exactly? Where did rāmen come from? And is it still the same as it was before? How did the convenient counterpart come to be, and what does its packaging mean for sustainability?