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Do you like eating instant noodles (方便面)? The food is easy to make and cheap to buy. People have celebrated its 60th birthday this year. It was 1. by a Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando in 1958.
China is the biggest2. for instant noodles. It can be a snack for students, a meal on a train, or just a choice for 3. workers. More than 46.2 billion instant noodles packets were sold on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong in 2013, a BBC article reported. But by 2016. those 4. had dropped to 38.5 billion packets, according to the World Instant Noodles Association.
One of the reasons for the drop could be the rise of online food delivery services. They can bring you food wherever you are. They also 5. more choices and tastier food. According to a 2016 survey by China Youth Daily, about 70 percent of young people order meals online 6. once a week.
In order to solve this problem, instant noodles companies are trying to 7. their products. They are making instant noodles with less fat and salt. They are also making new products, including self-heating hotpot and instant rice. Those can meet the needs of young people. They hope that instant noodles will be 8. again.
Will instant noodles disappear one day? We don't know. But they have surely left a mark on dining history.
