The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In the year 2000, people in Japan were polled and asked what the greatest Japanese creation of the 20th century was.

They didn't pick the Walkman, digital cameras, or the compact disc,

nor did they pick any cultural achievements like the works of Akira Curasawa,

anime, or Pokemon.

What they selected as the greatest Japanese accomplishment of the 20th century was

instant noodles.

Learn more about the simplest, cheapest food in the world and its inventor,

Momofuku Ando, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

My audio book recommendation for today is Rice Noodle Fish.

Deep Travels through Japan. My audiobook recommendation for today is Rice Noodle Fish.

Deep travels through Japan's Food Culture by Matt Golding.

In this 5,000 mile journey through the Noodle Shops, Tampora Temples, and

Teethouses of Japan, Matt Golding, co-creator of the enormously popular Eat This Not That book series,

navigates the intersection between food, history, and culture, creating one of the most ambitious

and complete books ever written about Japanese

culinary culture from the Western perspective. You can claim your one-month

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Japan's greatest inventor wasn't actually Japanese.

Momofuku Ando was born in Taiwan in 1910 to a Chinese family with the birth name Wu Bifu.

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