Last year’s People's Choice awards for the best ramen in Japan reveals visitors to the land of the Rising Sun look in all the wrong places for the country's top-rated ramen. Not only that, but according to travel experts, ramen-loving tourists don’t even visit during the right season for noodles.

In June, excessive spice levels prompted Danish food safety authorities to pull some Korean instant ramen noodles from store shelves. Denmark ceased sales of three products from manufacturer Samyang’s Buldak line — 3x Spicy & Hot Chicken, 2x Spicy & Hot Chicken, and Hot Chicken Stew.