Instant Noodles

There was an article recently on the BBC website about instant noodle consumption in China.  No surprise, it turns out by far in a way, China consumes more instant noodles than any other country in the world.  Many times more than second place holder Indonesia.

Maybe it’s not real news then when there’s an unexplained, small drop in Chinese consumption of instant noodles?  The BBC offers three ideas including increased availability of alternatives via the Internet, like apps where you can order food for delivery, changes in migration patterns mean people are away from home less, or finally the Chinese aspire for better food.

Could it be that China will be the new force driving for change in world food production?  Imagine what this could mean for the rest of us!

I’ve noticed something similar on this blog.  The number of readers in China is still small, but growing fast.  Roughly in order of numbers of readers, over the last few weeks, most people reading this blog are coming from the following countries:

United States
European Union*
Brazil
India
Italy
China
Poland
Russia
Spain
The Netherlands
Serbia

*Traffic from the EU is primarily from a French company, Poney Telecom, which does some anonymizing of it’s customer data and doesn’t leave much information in my log files.  I think some of this traffic comes from France and Belgium.

I think it’s exciting to think that these are the up and coming countries interested in food, food politics, biodiversity and agriculture in general.  Especially China’s presence in my log files has been growing recently.

If you’re from one of these countries, or have information about the food movement there, or think your country should be on this list, I’d like to hear from you.  You can either leave a comment or send me an email.