Raccoon Cup Noodle, South Korea's Essential Late-Night Food

Did you know there are lots of 24 hours convenient stores in Korea?

According to the research from the Food&Beverage News, hourly sales in convenient stores a day, the amount of sales increased from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Besides, most of the products sold at the time are instant foods like cup noodle, frozen pizza and ready-made fried rice. All the foods are easy to be made and become a delicacy at the evening.

1 A.M. Time to Eat Raccoon!

But make no mistake, the representative of these foods specially at midnight is cup noodles. It takes only five minutes to prepare eating, pouring hot water: that's it, DONE!

Fried Racoon; may be heard a bit cruel (haha)

Here I bring a special cup noodle for you to introduce it. It is called Fried Neo-gu-ri, which means raccoon in Korean, because there is a cute raccoon-shaped crab meat inside the noodle. So, don't worry about the name. There is no raccoon inside at all ;)

Two sauces, and noodle with hot water

When you first buy the noodle, you can check there are two sauces and noodle. One sauce is spicy seafood oil which adds a fishy smell making the noodle more yummy and confuses us as if we eat a seafood pasta. Another is basic sauce gives hot and salty taste tickling our palate. When you finish checking, you should put hot water into the bowl and wait until the noodle becomes tender. 

Use chopsticks to make holes and drain water

The noodle is different from normal cup noodles because it should drain water to enjoy it. But remain a bit water for mixing the noodle and sauce properly.

Mixed well and you cannot find the part doesn't involved

All steps are done and now time to enjoy your food. As you see on the picture above, there is no white part of the noodle where the sauce should be mixed.

Oops, I forgot to tell it. Check this racoon!

I don't know why still we become hungry especially after midnight. Partially because we want to chew something to be not bored, or just to be stuffed. Whatever the reason, eating food at late night is totally satisfactory because you are not bored anymore as well as can have a sweet dream on a full stomach. But don't you think eating something delicious should be an essential condition before having a such dream? If you think yes and want to try something new, then it's time to try Fried Neoguri!