长久以来，容易做价格又便宜的方便面都是中国的最佳即食食品。
不管是学生、旅游者还是加班的人，这都是他们饿了时的第一选择，2013年方便面在中国内地和香港卖出了462亿包。
但是，到2016年，根据世界方便面协会的数据，中国方便面销量已经降到了385亿包。
其他市场方便面销量基本正常。
方便面或许能从很多方面反映中国的变化。
BBC总结了几种说法来解释这一现象。
1.生活质量提高：消费者想要更好的食品2.人口迁移：农民工正在返乡3.旅游：更多的交通方式，旅游习惯也在改变4.智能手机与互联网：另一种“即食品”但是，因为中国的消费总量很大，方便面制造商不会把视线从中国移开。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 长久 | cháng jiǔ | for a long time |
| 以来 | yǐ lái | since (used after a specified time or event) |
| 容易 | róng yì | easy; straightforward |
| 做 | zuò | to make; to produce |
| 价格 | jià gé | price |
| 又 | yòu | both... and... |
| 便宜 | pián yi | cheap; inexpensive |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 方便面 | fāng biàn miàn | instant noodles |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 中国 | Zhōng guó | China |
| 最 | zuì | (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est |
| 佳 | jiā | beautiful / fine / good |
| 即食 | jí shí | instant (food) |
| 食品 | shí pǐn | foodstuff; food; provisions |
| 不管 | bù guǎn | regardless of / no matter |
| 学生 | xué shēng | student / schoolchild |
| 旅游者 | lǚ yóu zhě | tourist / traveler / visitor |
| 还是 | hái shi | or |
| 加班 | jiā bān | to work overtime |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 饿 | è | hungry |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 时 | shí | when |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 选择 | xuǎn zé | choice; option; alternative |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 内地 | Nèi dì | mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan) |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 香港 | Xiāng gǎng | Hong Kong |
| 卖出 | mài chū | to sell / to reach (a price in an auction) |
| 亿 | yì | 100 million |
| 包 | bāo | package / wrapper / container / bag / bundle / packet |
| 但是 | dàn shì | but; however |
| 到 | dào | to reach; to arrive / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) |
| 根据 | gēn jù | according to / based on |
| 世界 | shì jiè | world |
| 协会 | xié huì | an association / a society |
| 数据 | shù jù | data |
| 销量 | xiāo liàng | sales volume |
| 已经 | yǐ jīng | already |
| 降到 | jiàng dào | to drop/fall to; to decrease to a specified level |
| 其他 | qí tā | other / (sth or sb) else / the rest |
| 市场 | shì chǎng | (economics) market |
| 基本 | jī běn | basic / fundamental / main / elementary |
| 正常 | zhèng cháng | regular / normal / ordinary |
| 或许 | huò xǔ | perhaps; maybe |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 从 | cóng | from; through; via / (bound form) retainer; attendant / (bound form) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 多 | duō | many; much; more; a lot of |
| 方面 | fāng miàn | respect / aspect / field / side |
| 反映 | fǎn yìng | to mirror / to reflect / mirror image / reflection |
| 变化 | biàn huà | change; variation |
| 总结 | zǒng jié | to sum up / to conclude |
| 几 | jǐ | several / a few |
| 种 | zhǒng | classifier for types, kinds, sorts |
| 说法 | shuō fa | way of speaking / wording / formulation / one's version (of events) / statement / theory / hypothesis / interpretation |
| 来 | lái | (between two verbs) in order to |
| 解释 | jiě shì | to explain / to interpret / to resolve |
| 现象 | xiàn xiàng | phenomenon / appearance |
| 生活 | shēng huó | life / livelihood |
| 质量 | zhì liàng | quality / quality and quantity |
| 提高 | tí gāo | to raise / to increase / to improve |
| 消费者 | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 想要 | xiǎng yào | to want to / to feel like / to fancy / to care for sb |
| 更 | gèng | more / even more / further / still / still more |
| 好 | hǎo | good / appropriate; proper |
| 人口 | rén kǒu | population / people |
| 迁移 | qiān yí | to migrate / to move |
| 农民工 | nóng mín gōng | migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) |
| 正在 | zhèng zài | to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing |
| 返乡 | fǎn xiāng | to return to one's home town |
| 旅游 | lǚ yóu | trip / journey / tourism / travel / tour |
| 交通 | jiāo tōng | traffic / transportation / communications / liaison |
| 方式 | fāng shì | way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc) |
| 习惯 | xí guàn | habit / custom / usual practice |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 改变 | gǎi biàn | to change / to alter / to transform |
| 智能 | zhì néng | intelligent / smart |
| 手机 | shǒu jī | cell phone; mobile phone |
| 与 | yǔ | (formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases) |
| 互联网 | Hù lián wǎng | Internet |
| 另 | lìng | other / another / separate |
| 品 | pǐn | (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods / (bound form) grade; rank / kind; type; variety / character; disposition; nature; temperament / fret (on a guitar or lute) |
| 因为 | yīn wèi | because; owing to; on account of |
| 消费 | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 总量 | zǒng liàng | overall amount |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 制造商 | zhì zào shāng | manufacturing company |
| 不会 | bù huì | will not |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 视线 | shì xiàn | line of sight |
| 移 | yí | to move / to shift / to change / to alter / to remove |
| 开 | kāi | (directional complement) away; off |