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Irrational Want of the Day: Cup Shitsuki, the Cup Noodle Humidifier
Irrational Want of the Day? Who am I kidding? I haven’t posted in ages! It sounded catchy, though. Anyway, what you’re really here for the newest utterly random, totally cool microclimate-controlling...
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Cup Noodle Museum Opens, College Students Everywhere Rejoice
When you think of Japanese food, what do you think of? Sushi? No, you’re thinking too gourmet, think of a food worse than that. Street ramen? No, even worse than that. Ok, I’ll just cut to the chase,...
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1,452 Bowls Of Instant Ramen And Counting: The Ramen Noodle Diary
In this edition of Tofugu’s weekly Saturday Timewaster, I’d like to regale to you a story about a man who’s videotaped the creation of one-thousand four-hundred fifty-two bowls of instant ramen and...
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The Food Museums And Theme Parks Of Japan
Japan loves its food. It also loves its food movies. No matter where you go in Japan, you’ll always run into local dishes, special sweets, and famous restaurants and chefs. It really is a food obsessed...
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Hashi’s Ramen Survival Guide
There’s no Japanese food I’m more obsessed with than ramen. It’s cheap, delicious, and has enough variations to keep me interested and coming back for more. Even though ramen is originally from China...
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It’s hard to overstate instant ramen’s importance in Japan. There are multiple instant ramen museums in the country, and at the beginning of the millenium, the Japanese voted instant ramen Japan’s most...
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Japan’s B-Class Gourmets and the Food that Inspires Them
B-Class Gourmet (or B-kyu) is the Japanese term for someone who just can’t get enough good, cheap, Japanese food. Their appreciation for cheap eats knows no bounds. They’re the people who are willing...
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The Tastiest Japanese Food Movies
When’s the last time you walked away from a movie hungry? It’s pretty rare for me. American movies about food seem to be few and far between, and the ones that are around are usually socially-conscious...
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The Strangest Ramen in Japan
More than sushi, okonomiyaki, or any other recognizably Japanese food, ramen is arguably the most popular food in Japan. It’s inexpensive, you can find it virtually anywhere in Japan, and everybody...
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6 Unusual Museums in Japan
In most major cities of the world, you’ll find large, prestigious museums: the Museum of Natural History in New York City; the Louvre in Paris; the Smithsonian museums in Washington D.C. Then there are...
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Japanese Food Models, Yesterday And Today
If you’ve ever visited Japan and had to order food without benefit of being able to read Japanese, there’s one thing that’s a lifesaver: those plastic food replicas lined up in the windows of many...
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The Social History of Ramen
When I say Japanese food, the first thing you think of is probably sushi. And the second thing? These days, it’s likely to be ramen. Everyone’s familiar with the ubiquitous instant kind, and the real...
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