Japanese Popular Food "Ramen"

    A lot of Japanese like ramen. I think men like it especially. There are many ramen shop all over Japan and many kinds of ramen: miso ramen, tonkotsu ramen, soy sauce ramen and so on. 

This is Tonkotsu ramen in Ichiran. Ichiran is very famous ramen shop.

    How to order ramen is 2 patterns in ramen shops. 

① You decide the ramen looking at menu. Then you order it from waiter.

② You buy food tickets in a machine at the entrance and give it to a waiter.

    Also, you can make adjustments to ramen  in some ramen shops. 

    For example,

• You can choose noodles texture, soft, normal or hard.
• You can add boiled egg, chopped green onion, char siu: thinly sliced stewed pork, and so on to ramen.
• You can adjust the amount of garlic.
• You can choose soup's taste, light, normal or strong.      

   There are also many other adjustments. 

    You don't have to drink all the soup because it is salty and not good for your health. I don't drink all the soup either.

    Each ramen shop are particular about the broth, noodles, char siu, and so on, and they make their own best ramen. So each of them have originality. We can enjoy various tastes of ramen thanks to their trial and error.  

    Also, there are many local ramen. Especially, Sapporo, Kitakata, Hakata ramen have been famous for a long time. They have characteristic for soup. Sapporo ramen is miso soup, Kitakata ramen is soy sauce soup, Hakata ramen is Tonkotsu soup. 

     I occasionaly crave for ramen. I like to eat it while it's very hot. I don't like the noodles get soggy after I leave it in soup for too long. Many Japanese same as me. 

    Japanese slurp the noodles. I think we can eat it fast and before it gets cold and soggy by doing that. In your country, it is a bad manner to slurp noodles. But when you come to Japan, please try doing it!