{"id":13756,"date":"2011-04-06T10:58:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2011-04-06T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T01:58:32","slug":"gourmet-innovation-launches-donation-program-for-serving-ramen-meals-to-disaster-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/gourmet-innovation-launches-donation-program-for-serving-ramen-meals-to-disaster-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourmet Innovation Launches Donation Program For Serving Ramen Meals To Disaster Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gourmet-innovation.co.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gourmet Innovation\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/GourmetInnovation_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takumen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Takumen's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/takumen_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMany years ago, I watched a TV commercial of UK automaker\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rover_Company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rover Company<\/a>, saying there would be nothing to proudly introduce in UK other than Rover and fish &amp; chips. \u00a0 Similarly, average Japanese are not able to have pleasant days without curry rice nor ramen noodles.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gourmet-innovation.co.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gourmet Innovation[J]<\/a>, a Tokyo-based start-up operating an e-commerce site for the home delivery of frozen ready-made meals from popular ramen diners across the country, launched\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takumen.com\/lp\/ramen-donation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a donation program<\/a> last week for serving ramen meals to the disaster victims. \u00a0 You may place an order from three donation choices of 1000 yen for serving 4 persons (4 bowls of ramen), 5000 yen for 20 persons (20 bowls of ramen) and 10000yen for 100 persons (100 bowls of ramen). \u00a0\u00a0The company expects to deliver packs of ready-made noodles to evacuation sites having water boiling facilities, or come to evacuation sites and cook noodles for the victims onsite.<br \/>\nOn the Japanese websphere, the service is better known under its service name\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takumen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Takumen[J]<\/a> than the company&#8217;s name. \u00a0More than 9000 users have signed up for placing orders of the Japanese instant soul food. \u00a0 Gourmet Innovation was founded last year by Takuma Inoue (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GI_inoue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GI_Inoue[J]<\/a>) for giving the opportunities to earn additional revenues for ramen diner owners, and also for allowing ramen freaks to try inexperienced taste without visiting far-located diners.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takumen.com\/lp\/ramen-donation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Takumen Donation\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/takumendonation_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"728\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I watched a TV commercial of UK automaker\u00a0Rover Company, saying there would be nothing to proudly introduce in UK other than Rover and fish &amp; chips. \u00a0 Similarly, average Japanese are not able to have pleasant days without curry rice nor ramen noodles. Gourmet Innovation[J], a Tokyo-based start-up operating an e-commerce site&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/gourmet-innovation-launches-donation-program-for-serving-ramen-meals-to-disaster-victims\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gourmet Innovation Launches Donation Program For Serving Ramen Meals To Disaster Victims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[1428,3600],"class_list":["post-13756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-gourmet-innovation","tag-takumen","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}