{"id":59981,"date":"2023-11-21T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/20\/cost-of-living-crisis-fuels-global-appetite-for-instant-ramen"},"modified":"2023-11-21T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T23:00:08","slug":"cost-of-living-crisis-fuels-global-appetite-for-instant-ramen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59981","title":{"rendered":"Cost-of-living crisis fuels global appetite for instant ramen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-class consumers around the world \u2013 including in countries with no tradition of eating noodles \u2013 are turning to instant ramen in droves<\/p>\n<p>Spicy tomato, seafood, teriyaki chicken, Korean barbecue, cheese curry. Or for those with a gargantuan appetite, an \u201cAmerican breakfast\u201d \u2013 all served in a pot along with a block of air-dried noodles.<\/p>\n<p>When Momofuku Ando invented <em>insutanto ramen<\/em> in his back yard shed in Osaka 65 years ago, he could have had little inkling that the simple, starchy convenience food would become a global food staple.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/20\/cost-of-living-crisis-fuels-global-appetite-for-instant-ramen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-class consumers around the world \u2013 including in countries with no tradition of eating noodles \u2013 are turning to instant ramen in drovesSpicy tomato, seafood, teriyaki chicken, Korean barbecue, cheese curry. Or for those with a gargantuan appetite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,311,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59982,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59981\/revisions\/59982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}