Hilly breeze food Anisha Mondal

WAI WAI NOODLES

WAI WAI Noodles is an instant noodle processed in Nepal. The main 

ingredient in the noodle is wheat. The Chaudhary group built a Wai Wai 

noodle factory in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1984, in technical collaboration with 

TPFF, a Thailand company founded in 1972 by Surin Napapruekchat and 

seven other families. It’s initial capacity was 120 packets per minute. Today 

it is 2100 packets per minute or 40000 tonnes. 

Wai wai and Mama, products of C food India pvt. Ltd. are the preferred 

instants noodles over maggi in the region of Darjeeling hills and Sikkim, 

even though the authorities have not issued any directive on the sale of 

Wai wai and mama. Their sales have drastically come down.

Darjeeling municipality have issued a directive against the sale of maggi, 

which is manufactured by Nestle in the hill town, however, there is no such 

directive on the sale of wai wai and mama.

The Chaudhary Group built four factories in Nepal and six factories 

in India for the manufacture and distribution of Wai Wai and other branded 

instant noodles. CG is expanding with new plants 

in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Serbia, Kazakhstan and Egypt. Along with 

other noodle brands of India, one segment of Xpress Noodles, a product of 

CG was banned in the Tamil Nadu state of India in 2015 for a period of 

three months citing high levels of lead in similar noodle brand known 

as Maggi. The Assam government had also banned Mimi, another product 

from CG for one month under the Food Safety and Standard Act 2006.

Subsequently, concerned authorities declared the noodles safe as they 

proved to contain no lead and harmful materials. Wai Wai claims 20 

percent Indian market share.

Following are its ingredients:

Wheat flour, Palm oil, Salt, Chilli, Garlic powder, Pepper, Dried chives

How to make Wai Wai Noodles 

Step 1: Cut the tomato, onion, garlic chillies into pieces as shown.

Step 2: Boil the water and add Wai-Wai and cook it for 2 min. 

Step 3 & 4: Add 1 tablespoon of oil in the noodles and leave it in the 

strainer till all the water comes out of it. Adding oil in it will stop the 

clumping of noodles.

Step 5: Now heat the oil and fry tomato, onion, garlic and green chilli

Step 6: Once they turned into brownish in colour add a 2-3 slice of cheese 

and 1 tsp of chilli powder, 2 packets of test maker and salt to taste.

Step 7: Add the boiled noodles in it. Mix it well and add some coriander in 

the end.

Step 8: Serve it in the bowl and enjoy the slurp.

By Anisha Mondal