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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Kim Severson, Where Steaming Fried Noodle Spell Relief; Both loved and
unloved worldwide, instant ramen again comes through for Japan in Hard Times
. Mar 20, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/weekinreview
/20noodles.html?scp=1&sq=ramen&st=Search
Note:
(a) ramen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen
(Ramen is of Chinese origin, however it is unclear when ramen was introduced
to Japan. Even the etymology of the word ramen is a topic of debate)
(b) Momofuku ANDO 安藤 百福 (1910-2007) was born in colonial Taiwan by
Taiwanese parents as 吳百福. In 1933, he travelled to Osaka on businesse and
emigrated to Japan after World War II.
(c) Slim Jim. ConAgra Foods, undated.
http://www.conagrafoods.com/consumer/brands/getBrand.do?page=sl
(d) The article mentions "an emo-pop record label."
emo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo
(a style of rock music; may blend with pop punk)
(e) The artricle says New York chef David Chang "for the record, says his
restaurant is not named after the founder of instant noodles, but rather
because momo in Japanese means peach and fuku means lucky."
* momo 桃 (n)
* fuku 福 (n): "good fortune"
Jim Breen's online Japanese dictionary
(f) potable (adj; Latin potare to drink): "suitable to drink" |
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