Ramen King Dies at 96...

Momofuku Ando inventor of the modern instant noodles, died on Jan. 5, 2007 of heart failure in Osaka, Japan.

Born in Taiwan and then moving to Japan at the age of 23, where he founded what would become Nissin Food Products Co. He first created after a lot of trial and error Chikin Ramen in 1958 at the age of 48 as a response to food shortages in Post WWII Japan at the age and then he created Cup o' Noodles in 1971.

In 2004 an estimated 70 billion servings were sold of "The Ramen King's" product.

He was survived by his wife Masako, two sons and a daughter.