Hello everyone~! This is Saori from Japanese Snacks Republic!

Out of the blue, but in Japan eel bowls are seen as a luxury dish! (That’s the strong image.)...... You want to eat it casually, but precisely because you can’t, it feels special! And now that famous cup noodle company has shattered that common sense and inner conflict with a new food!

The eel bowl we’re talking about here is a dish where grilled eel glazed with a sweet and savory sauce is served on top of white rice! It’s a nutritious dish believed to help prevent summer fatigue!

And this time, it’s an instant bowl that you can enjoy just by pouring hot water and waiting 5 minutes~! The eel used here (mysterious eel) doesn’t use any animal-derived ingredients. It’s a food product created solely to recreate real ‘grilled eel’ with similar texture, appearance, and flavor! By dividing the base into three layers: ‘white meat layer,’ ‘middle layer,’ and ‘skin layer,’ it reproduces the fluffy texture of grilled eel and the melty fatty feel between the flesh and skin! It mainly uses textured soy protein along with vegetable oils to replicate the fluffy meat texture and the umami of the skin characteristic of eel!

It was also sold last year, but this year they took customer reviews into account and further refined the eel texture and more, making it even closer to the real thing! Everyone, please try this mysterious but not-so-mysterious and super delicious instant eel bowl~!