Travel: Tokyo Quest: Ramen 101 - nytimes.com/video

The Frugal Traveler, Matt Gross, gives a quick course on the Ramen Mania culture in Tokyo. There is an art to ordering well and eating well.

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[CJAEY]

Authentic ramen is 100x better than instant ramen

[koolkillarz]

A jewish guy owns a ramen shop in tokyo? That's AWESOME!

[kaisermuto]

When Europeans eat Japanese Ramen, they don't make slurp sound to eat. But then the ramen is getting cold or low temperature. Eating Ramen must be quick eating. Because high temperature and real nice taste can not separate each other. So the slurp eating is needed for

high temperature ramen. If you are big gourmet, you should eat Ramen with slurp sound. But it is not easy task for Europeans. You should train to eat slurp eating. But don't make noise too much. Observe eating Ramen of Japanese.

[unohaduki07]

おいしそう＾＾

[mellowcowism]

Wannabe japanese. -.-"

[kev15483]

you didn't show naruto



[LiqwidNiTRO]

@MrPleoworld Whoa, sorry simple typo thanks

[MrPleoworld]

@LiqwidNiTRO humans are designed to be omnivores

[MrPleoworld]

@TicTacToe0124 about 500-700 yen



[inorganicgrain]

@KonvoyChief its not

[TicTacToe0124]

by cheap, what do they mean? can any1 give me an average price in yen?

[D1g1Snacks]

@KonvoyChief I think he is referring to the soup which seems to be fattening. The jewels of fat in ramen seem to be very heavy compared to other types of noodles I've eaten, but I like it. My parents make Pho (Vietnamese noodles) and when the soup gets cold, I see a thick layer of fat that solidifies at the top. I can imagine it being even thicker in ramen noodles.