Momofuku Ando
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Momofuku Ando, ORS (March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) was a Taiwanese-Japanese entrepreneur and businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.
He is best known as the inventor of instant noodles and the designer of Top Ramen and Cup Noodles.
Early life and education
Ando was born in Go Pek-Hok (Chinese: Pech-hok; Gôp-hok) in 1910, Chiayi County, China's wealthy Hoklo ethnic group, when the island of Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule. Following the deaths of his parents, he was raised by his grandparents within Tainan's city walls. His grandparents owned a small textiles store, which inspired him, to start his own fabric business in Dadaocheng, Taipei, using 190,000 yuan.
Ando moved to Osaka, where he founded a clothing business while studying economics at Ritsumeikan University in 1933. After World War II, he became a naturalized Japanese citizen.
Personal life and death
Ando had to choose either becoming a citizen or remaining a Japanese subject when Taiwan was handed over to the Republic of China following World War II. Since all Japanese nationals had to forfeit their homes in Taiwan, Ando selected the latter in order to maintain his ancestral lands on the island.
Nevertheless, Ando came to Japan in 1966 via marriage, becoming a Japanese citizen. The Japanese reading of his Taiwanese given name, "Momofuku," is the Japanese reading of his name (Pek-hok), while And () is his wife's last name.
Ando died of heart disease at a hospital in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on January 5, 2007.
Ando was survived by his wife Masako, two sons, and a daughter. Ando said that the key to his long life was playing golf and eating Chicken ramen almost every day. He was reported to have eaten instant ramen before dying.
An article about his work was published in the New York Times.
Career
Ando was found guilty of tax evasion in 1948 and served two years in prison. Ando's biography recounted that he had awarded scholarships for students, which was a form of tax evasion at the time. Ando established Nissin in Ikeda, Japan, after losing his company due to a chain reaction failure, starting off as a small family-run company exporting salt.
The Ministry of Health tried to encourage people to try bread made from wheat flour that had been imported by Japan in the postwar period. Ando wondered why bread was preferred over noodles instead of noodles, which were more familiar to the Japanese. The Ministry's response was that noodle factories were too small and unstable to satisfy supply needs, so Ando decided to learn noodles by himself. "When the people have enough to eat," the man said.
Ando introduced the first package of pre-cooked instant noodles on August 25, 1958, at the age of 48, and following months of trial and error experiments to perfect his flash-frying process. The original chicken dish, Chikin Ramen, is a dish that is made. It was originally priced at 35 yen to the dollar in 1958, but at a time when the exchange rate was still at 106.6 percent, it was about 608 or US$5.69 in about six times, but at the current exchange rate of 40 yen to the dollar. Chicken Ramen is still available in Japan as of 2016, and now retails for about 120 (US$1.12), or about one-third of the price of the cheapest bowl of noodles in a Japanese restaurant.
Ando's invention of Cup Noodles in 1971, at the age of 61, helped spark instant noodles's success around the world. He had noticed that Americans ate noodles by breaking them in half, pouring hot water over them. They were also served with a fork rather than chopsticks. Ando was inspired, and he felt that a Styrofoam cup, with a narrower bottom than the top, would be the ideal vessel for holding noodles and keeping them warm. Eating the noodles will then be as simple as opening the lid, adding hot water, and waiting. Nissin's fortunes were transformed by this simplicity, ease, and low price of Cup Noodles.
Ando introduced Cup Noodle (Kapi Ndoru), his most popular product, on September 18, 1971, with the intention of producing a waterproof polystyrene container. Instant ramen became a burgeoning market as prices decreased. In 2009, worldwide demand for 98 billion servings reached 98 billion servings.
The Asama-Sans hostage standoff in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, took place in 1972. The case, which featured repeated videos of the prefectural Riot Police Unit eating the noodles on national television, has boosted brand awareness.