Symington's, the Leeds-based manufacturer of Golden Wonder's pot noodles, expects to have the new factory in Hunslet open in August.
Or, tuck into the Australian-Swiss chef Mark Thommen's interpretation of spaetzle: Swiss noodles topped with a poached egg.
As they unpack the brand-new sneakers, canned ham, chocolates and packages of Top Ramen noodles, it's clear that what Lance and Virgil really want for Christmas won't fit in a 20-by-20-inch cardboard box.
But given a master's touch, even a commercial for instant noodles or a box of tissues can become art.
Group firm CG Foods' Wai Wai, a popular brand of instant brown noodles, was ranked as Nepal's top consumer brand by research firm acnielsen last year.
Wheat, in the form of bread and noodles, provides the bulk of people's calories these days.
Symington's said it currently took eight to 10 weeks to source noodles from China.
Long lines of people waited by stalls selling Namie yakisoba, the popular local dish of fried noodles that has become a symbol of the town's battle to survive.
Dad does barbecue on the weekends and on the nights when Mom's away takes a pizza out of the freezer or makes boiled noodles with sliced hot dogs on top.
Mee goreng (fried noodles), the next dish on the syllabus, illustrates the city's food heritage perfectly.
Christmas dinner, he said, consisted of prawn noodles, biscuits and a "really tasty" freeze-dried shepherd's pie.
So we join the rich in beautiful dining rooms, like The Peninsula's Mei Jiang (peninsula.com) where we eat exquisite dim sum - rolled noodles with black beans and chilli, snow pea pastries, roast pork puffs so buttery they're like pig shortcakes - and are treated like pashas.
One of Sin Hwa Dee's factories is dedicated exclusively to the production of Yu Sheng products, while another factory produces noodles for the restaurant and catering industries.
Fortunately four to five meals per day of char kwey tiaw (fried noodles in soy sauce with egg and various additions), asam laksa (Penang's famous, indescribably good curry noodle soup), rojak (fruit and veggie salad in a sweet dark shrimp paste) and much, much more, goes down a lot easier than heavier Western foods.
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