Archive for January 27th, 2006

Ramen/Indonesian - IndoMie

IndoMie is the top selling and favorite brand of Indonesia. Its brands of instant noodle commonly share a very distinctive Indonesian’s taste which you can quickly learn to tell apart from any others. Many indonesians have grown up on IndoMie’s and are quite fond of it still, unlike here in the U.S. where its generic stuffs become the object of distaste later in life.

Instant Noodless were first introduced in Indonesia by Supermie in around mid 1970s, then Indomie came along and grabbed market shares with its legendary Indomie Mie Goreng (fried moodle) flavor, which is still one of the best selling Indomie flavor even after all these years.

Indomie is so popular among Indonesians, that many street vendors are selling boiled Indomie (Indomie rebus) with or without extras. If you live in Indonesia but haven’t tasted Indomie, then you are not an Indonesian, it’s as simple as that.

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String Theory and the art of noodling

This webdiary is nothing short of remarkable in its knowledge about noodles. One of the best articles that I have read.

But you definitely have to skim quickly pass the initial rambling to about midway into this articles before he really talk about noodles and I think you’ll be suprised like I was about what he had put together!