Breakfast time!
I've got strawberry fruit smoothie
I had a blueberry one yesterday
And it was really nice
And wakame seaweed onigiri
There's a dragonfly on Phil's head!
I'm sat in the most awkward position
Don't move!
Cool!
Yeah, awesome
Today we're going to Yokohama
And it's a lovely sunny day
So it should be really nice
Because it's by the sea
It's got a port
And a ferris wheel
And we're going to the Cup Ramen Museum
There's so much space in this station
And it's really quiet
There's hardly anyone here
It's so weird
We're in Yokohama!
After a quick stop for taiyaki
We're off to the port/seaside area
To find the Cup Noodles Museum
Look how many fish there are in the water
We found taiyaki!
Look, here's my taiyaki
It's quite big!
This one's soft on the outside
I went for red bean flavour
Because that's the classic flavour
Can you hear the song on the stereo's about taiyaki as well?!
It's really warm
It's different from the one I had yesterday
The outside of that was crispy
And this one's soft
The outside's like cake / pancake / waffle sort of texture
And it's not sweet
But the sweetness comes from the red bean on the inside
Which is like a paste
And it's got some whole beans inside aswell
It's really good
I like the look of the custard cream flavour too
Maybe I'll try one on the way back
Look, it's the Pom Pom Purin Cafe
I like how they've themed the whole building
You can't see inside
So much cute!
Look at the dumplings!
We've just got here
And you can already tell
How the streets are a lot quieter here
So it feels a lot more chilled than in Tokyo
We're almost at the seaside!
Here we are!
Why it got all the exclamation marks?
Cup Noodles Museum!!!
UFO Noodles
That's a lot of ramen!
This must have been the first one in 1958
Chicken ramen
This one's really big
That's bigger than an ice cream tub
Must be for a whole family
We're going into the theatre
To see a film about Momofuku Ando
Who invented Cup Noodles
Now it's time for the best part of the day
Making your own Cup Noodle
First you get your cup
From a vending machine
Now we decorate the cup
Here's my one, it's already got the Cup Noodles logo on it
And you can draw on the back
And they give you pens
Here's my one
I've gone for a Halloween theme
Probably would have been better if I'd realised the pens have a thin end as well as a thick end
It's got some pumpkins
And ghosts
And I put a witches hat on the Cup Noodles logo
What's yours about Phil?
Depicting the story of hunting for chocolate milkshake
Very badly drawn
An epic tale!
We'll go from
No chocolate milkshake
In a vending machine
We go up a mountain
What's at the top of the mountain?
There's a vending machine
With chocolate milkshake
And then happiness
Art
This is where you can completely make the noodles from scratch
We've just done stage number 3
Next you have to place the cup over the noodles
Choose the soup flavour and ingredients
Then we'll seal the lid on
Shrink wrap
And use an air pump to blow air into the air package
And then it's done!
I'm going to go for...
Cheese
Kimchi
Corn
And spring onions
Next we're going to put the lids on
Here's my one
And now it's being shrink wrapped
You can see the plastic shrinking!
And it's going to be thrown out the end!
And done!
Ooh it's hot!
All finished
Halloween noodles
Next we get a bag that we can inflate so we can take them home safely
It's inflating!
Finished!
The sea's right up to the edge!
The museum was about Momofuku Ando
Who invented Cup Noodles
And instant ramen
Which was actually in one of my first All the Best Stuff is from Japan videos
He invented it because he saw how many people were hungry after the war
And he wanted to create a food
That was easy to make
And cheap
And quick to prepare
So eventually he managed to create instant ramen!
And then when he went to America
People didn't want to eat their ramen out of a bowl
So that's how he invented cup noodles
But really the main reason to go
Is so you can make your own Cup Ramen!
And we're going to try these back at the hotel one night
The explanation for why this is here:
Fruit Tree 2001