Nissin Foods to market cup noodles with 1-meter-long noodles+

TOKYO, Jan. 12 Kyodo - Nissin Foods Holdings Co. said Tuesday it will release in March a limited number of cup noodle products using 1-meter-long noodles to commemorate the centennial of the birth of Momofuku Ando, the late inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles.

The company said the noodles will be the longest ever to be used for a cup
noodle product, surpassing the 70-centimeter buckwheat noodles in the ''Donbei
tempura soba'' -- currently the longest for Nissin -- and taking after the
Chinese tradition of eating long noodle dishes on birthdays to symbolize
longevity.
Nissin will release two types of the long cup noodles with a suggested retail
price of 170 yen each, excluding tax.
In addition, it will sell Chicken Ramen, the world's first instant noodle
product introduced in 1958, at 35 yen including tax, and Cup Noodle, the
world's first instant noodles introduced in 1971, at 100 yen also including tax
-- both at the same prices from the time they were launched.
Ando, founder of Nissin Food Produc