There is a 3 in 1 yakisoba sold under a brand called maruchan. Apparently yakisoba makes the best seller among other instant noodles of its manufacturer Toyo Suisan Kaisha, Ltd products like Akai Kitsune (udon), Midori no Tanuki (soba), and other noodles.
Yakisoba, literally means fried noodle in Japanese, has become a brand to represent Japan. For all the festivals or matsuri one goes, you will never miss the chance to not seeing at least a few stores selling it.
The above yakisoba was taken at one izakaya, Kushi-hacchin. Whenever I go with a group monthly, we always end the gathering by ordering yakisoba. It's delicious and the taste and the volume are so great yet yummy that you wonder if this is manufactured at factory and just heat up at the kitchen.
Coincidentally, I found that there is a manufacturer in fact makes an automated machine that produces yakisoba. With it, you can make perfect yakisoba without thinking whether your staff cook the same every time etc.
By the way, the yakisoba just costs about 493 yen. You wonder how many yakisoba needs to be sold in order to get the returns. But there is the need and there is the machine available.
