is a brand of

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s (primarily

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) manufactured by Sanyo Foods of

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. Sapporo Ichiban noodles are also manufactured in

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, for the

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and Canadian market. Sapporo Ichiban has also found a market outside

, most notably with consumers in

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, the

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and

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. Sapporo Ichiban literally means "Sapporo's number one

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, coined by future company president Takeshi Ida after he was particularly impressed with Sapporo's local ramen.

Facilities and manufacturing

Sanyo Foods had previously kept their headquarters, and R&D all in their original town of Maebashi city,

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, but their headquarters have legally moved to Minato-ku,

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. They have built their plants for domestic products in Gunma, Chiba,

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, and

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. There is a small sales branch in Sapporo. Products sold in the United States are made in Garden Grove, California.

Products

Ramen

Ramen flavors include: * "Original" (Red package) a mild

soy sauce Soy sauce (sometimes called soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of China, Chinese origin, traditionally made from a fermentation (food), fermented paste of soybeans, roasted cereal, grain, brine, and ''Aspergillus oryzae'' or ''A ...

flavor, debuted in stores January 1966. *

Miso is a traditional Japanese seasoning. It is a thick paste produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and kōji (the fungus ''Aspergillus oryzae''), and sometimes rice, barley, seaweed, or other ingredients. It is used for sauces and spreads; p ...

(Orange package), debuted in stores September 1968. * Shio (

Salt In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as r ...

) (Black and Red package), debuted in stores August 1971. *

Tonkotsu is a ramen dish that originated in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and is a specialty dish on the island of Kyushu. The broth for tonkotsu ramen is based on pork bones, which is what the word means in Japanese. It is prepared by boiling t ...

(Gold package) *

Chicken The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is now one of the most common and w ...

(Green package) *

Beef Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (''Bos taurus''). Beef can be prepared in various ways; Cut of beef, cuts are often used for steak, which can be cooked to varying degrees of doneness, while trimmings are often Ground beef, grou ...

(Brown package) *

Shrimp A shrimp (: shrimp (American English, US) or shrimps (British English, UK)) is a crustacean with an elongated body and a primarily Aquatic locomotion, swimming mode of locomotion – typically Decapods belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchi ...

(Pink package) * Hot & Spicy Chicken (Green and Red package) * Original Cup * Chicken Cup * Beef Cup * Shrimp Cup

Non-ramen products

Yakisoba (, , ) is a Japanese noodle Stir frying, stir-fried dish. Usually, soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour, but soba in are Chinese-style noodles () made from wheat flour, typically flavored with a condiment similar to Worcestershire sauce ...

Chow mein ''Chow mein'' ( and , ; Cantonese Yale: ''cháaumihn'', Pinyin: ''chǎomiàn'') is a dish of Chinese stir-fried noodles with vegetables and sometimes meat or tofu. Over the centuries, variations of ''chǎomiàn'' were developed in many reg ...

(Yellow, orange and white package). This is not a ramen soup, but ramen noodles meant to be reconstituted, then

stir-fried Stir frying ( zh, c= 炒, p=chǎo, w=ch'ao3, cy=cháau) is a cooking technique in which ingredients are fried in a small amount of very hot oil while being stirred or tossed in a wok. The technique originated in China and in recent centuries ...

with the enclosed flavour package. Traditionally, ground beef and Chinese cabbage are added to the stir-fry and

seaweed Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of ''Rhodophyta'' (red), '' Phaeophyta'' (brown) and ''Chlorophyta'' (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as ...

is sprinkled on top from the included pouch if preparing yakisoba, but only the seaweed is included in the package. *

Kitsune The , in popular Japanese tradition, are foxes or fox spirits that possess supernatural abilities such as shapeshifting, and capable of bewitching people. General overview , though literally a 'fox', becomes in folklore a ' fox spirit', o ...

– Kitsune udon (Blue and white package). This is a package of dehydrated

udon Udon ( or ) is a thick noodle made from wheat flour, used in Japanese cuisine. There are a variety of ways it is prepared and served. Its simplest form is in a soup as with a mild broth called made from dashi, soy sauce, and mirin. It is usual ...

noodles instead of ramen, with a reconstitutable square of

tofu or bean curd is a food prepared by Coagulation (milk), coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into solid white blocks of varying softness: ''silken'', ''soft'', ''firm'', and ''extra (or super) firm''. It originated in Chin ...

. This item has been discontinued in the United States in spite of great demand found online.

External links

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Sanyo Foods Corp. of America
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Facilities and manufacturing

Products

Ramen

Non-ramen products

See also

External links