Spicy Ramen Bowl
$16 play money
Noodles in a red broth with real heat. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $16 in play money, which puts it in the Everyday tier ($15 to $59). It is part of the everyday core of the menu.
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Key facts
- Cuisine
- Japanese
- Menu section
- Japanese
- Price tier
- Everyday ($15 to $59)
- Play-money price
- $16
- Main ingredients
- wheat noodles, chili broth, minced pork
- How it is served
- A bowl of ramen in red chili broth with minced pork and a soft egg
History, tradition and origin
Ramen came to Japan with Chinese cooks in the late 1800s and spread after the Second World War, when wheat flour was plentiful. Regions built their own bowls: pork bone broth in the south, miso in the north, soy in Tokyo. Thick wheat noodles and buckwheat noodles are much older, and buckwheat noodles are eaten on New Year's Eve.
Food economy and industry
Japan has tens of thousands of ramen shops, many run by a single owner who makes broth through the night. Instant noodles, invented in Japan in 1958, are now eaten more than a hundred billion times a year worldwide. Buckwheat grows in poor soil and cool climates, and much of it is imported.
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