Long before the invention of instant noodles, in ancient times, people in the East and the West cooked noodles and served them with soup. In China, similar pasta is called "spaghetti" or "Yi Fu noodles" (also known as "spaghetti" in Taiwan Province province). According to legend, Yi Bingshou celebrated his mother's birthday at home in Qing Dynasty. Due to the large number of guests, the chef mistakenly put the cooked egg noodles into the boiling oil pan in a hurry, so he had to scoop them up and serve them with soup. Because the guests were full of praise after eating, this dish was handed down. Early instant noodles were still packaged with one side and Yi Fu noodles.

It is said that the first person to make instant noodles was a chef named Yi Zhifu in Yangzhou, China. He added eggs to flour, rolled them into thin slices, cut them into filaments, boiled them in water, and then immediately fried them in oil. The noodles treated in this way can be soaked in hot water at any time, which is very convenient to eat.

As for non-fried instant noodles, it can be traced back to the noodle invented by Han Xinjun in the third year of the Western Han Dynasty in China (205 years ago). When Han Xin was in the Yellow River

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654.38+ In order to solve the problem of military food supply, Wan Shouzhang Heyang prepared to attack Wei Bao, the king of the Western Wei State in Hedong, and invented pasting buckwheat flour and wheat flour, boiling them into eight-ripe big cakes and cutting them into wide strips. This kind of bread is not only convenient to carry around, but also can be eaten as long as it is boiled in water, so it can be regarded as the earliest form of instant noodles, just as tobacco leaves in ancient China were the earliest form of cigarettes.