Why eat ramen noodles?

Everyone eat ramen noodles! But what makes them so popular? Well, there have to be at least 1001 reasons why you should eat ramen:
(979 more reasons to find!) (We found the first 9, you find the rest!)


1. It's delicious!
Well, ramen taste great, that's a fact!

2. Low cost  
One of the most important reason why ramen are so popular: instant noodles are really cheap, really. Even if we all agree that ramen taste great, let's be honest, 85.7 billion ramen meals would not be consumed every year if the product was 4 or 5 times more expensive. But good news, you can get them for as low as 0.10$ a pack in North America (cheapest ones we found right now are at costco) and for a pretty low cost too anywhere around the globe. If you don’t want to buy a 36 packs box, you can go to your local supermarket and get 4-8 for a dollar. To buy authentic ramen noodles, if you do not live in Asia, it should not be a problem in any large city.

3. Ready in five minutes
Like you can see in our “How to cook” section, instant noodles are ready in 5 minutes, on the oven, in the microwave or even with the coffee maker!

4. Easy to cook
Basicly, if you know how to heat up water, you know how to cook instant noodles. As long as you don’t overcook, it should always be a great meal.

5. You are in college
Well if you are in college, you have to eat ramen. Why eat noodles? Well, you probably now have to purchase your own food, wondering how come that fridge is not auto fulling itself every week. Good news, instant noodles are ready fast, cost a lot less than pizza and you won’t need a fine cuisine 2 years class to learn how to cook them to perfection.

6. Add anything you want
As seen in our recipes section, ramen are good with everything. If you feel like eating a light summer meal or a great seafood feast, ramen can be an excellent basis for almost every recipe.

7. Texture
With the texture instant noodle get once cooked, it becomes perfect to keep any flavor you might want to add. Unlike larger pasta, instant noodles are perfect to mix with anything and keep the flavor of any sauce.

8. Healthy meal
As we all know, fruits and vegetables taste great! But, we’ll eat some tommorow, just not today. Well with ramen, as with any kind of pasta, you can add some healthy food with a great sauce to have a good and tasty meal!

9. Good for almost a year
According to tests conducted by the Japan Convenience Foods Industry Association, measuring acid and peroxide values, instant ramen are safe to eat for up 8 to 9 months, and often for over a year. It makes instant ramen perfect food to store for those days you don’t feel like making that long and perilous trip to the supermarket.
How to keep fresh:
-Don’t open the package
-Store at room temperature
-Keep away from light
-Store in a dry place

10. It might just be the perfect food to survive a zombie attack!
What would you eat if zombies invaded the earth? The dangerous creatures would try to eat you, but you would probably end up eating some noodles! Ramen packages are not heavy to carry (unlike canned food), they last almost forever, they don't need to be cooked, they are a great source of energy and you can find them in almost all abandoned supermarkets. I don't say they are perfect, but they could be part of an invasion healthy diet!
Thanks to: Charles Anderson (Seattle, United-States)
(Charles, we wish you the best of luck if we ever get invaded!)

11. Ramen don't need to be cooked to be enjoyed
That's right! "Raw" ramen make a delicious snack! You can eat them straight out of the package or on top of your favorite meal. As confirmed on Nissin Food website, it's totally safe to eat them "raw" since in fact, instant noodles are already cooked.
Thanks to: Jared Rogers (New-York, United-States)

12. Enough with onions and garlic!
Unlike onions and garlic, i guarantee you that ramen noodles won't give you bad breath! They are perfectly safe for romantic diner. Ok i may be pushing it a bit too far, please order something else if you ever go on a blind date!
Thanks to: Maria Brenz (Berlin, Germany)

13. Unlike chick peas or All Bran, ramen don't have any "bad side effects"
Let's face the truth, some food is a bit "too strong" on the digestive system, but be happy, noodles are not one of them! You could eat them all day long and you won't have to be that careful in public :)
Thanks to: Jennifer Wilson (Pittsburgh, United-States)

14. Vegetarians love them!
No animals are hurt when you eat ramen. Yay!
Thanks to: Patricia "the veggie" Roberts (Toronto, Canada)

15. You don't need to refrigerate
Meat, cheese and juice are annoying, you always need to keep them in the fridge. Uncooked ramen can be stored and carried everywhere!
Thanks to: Ashley Thompson (New-York, United-States)

16. It's fun to eat with chopsticks!
If you master chopsticks (and even if you don't) it's like eating noodle soup at an oriental restaurant!
Thanks to: Jennifer Benedict (Casa Grande, Arizona, United-States)

17. If you eat noodles, you look like Naruto.. and Naruto is cool!
Naruto's favorite food is ramen noodles, you can now look as cool as he do by eating them too!
Thanks to: Bob Johnson (Manhattan, United-States)

18. Great for kids!
Kids usually want something quick and painless to make. Once they get old enough to do basic cooking, they can make it themselves without too much worry, as long as an adult can supervise them.
Thanks to: Rachael Compton (Nashville, Tennessee, United-States)

19. Because who doesn't like "slurping down" noodles!
This has to be the coolest way to eat noodles and ramen are perfect to slurp down!
Thanks to: James Raddatz (Orem, Utah, United-States)

20. Because it hits the spot at two in the morning!
When you wake up in the middle of the night and just feel famished.. ramen is there for you like a best friend with insomnia. A full warm belly means easier sleep!
Thanks to: Kara Olivieri (Huntington, United-States)

21. School lunchtime is too short?
What happens when you go to a small charter school? No hot lunch. Instead they give you six microwaves. So what do you bring? You bring ramen! Why? Because when you are waiting in that huge line and you just need to speed things up, you have ramen which only takes a few minutes to cook in that, oh so short, lunch time.
Thanks to: Julisa Ricart (Woodbury, United-States)

22. Once cooked, it's great hot or cold!
Instead of beating the maitenance guys with a broom to get to the microwave at work, just pull it straight from the fridge! YUM!
Thanks to: Equidna Warden (North-Platte, Nebraska, United-States)

23. They have Magical Properties!
Recent scientific findings state that eating noodles decrease chances of spontaneous combustion of the brain. (Not confirmed, but 99.99% true, *cough* *cough* :) )
Thanks to: Saif Al-Silwadi (Halifax, Canada)

Do you have an other good reason of why to eat ramen? Send it to us! If we feature it in this section we will be happy to put your name as submitter!