
The writer awaits a bowl of ramen noodles in a Tokyo restaurant.
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The writer awaits a bowl of ramen noodles in a Tokyo restaurant.
Yuki Noguchi/NPR
I used to be born and raised in the American Midwest, however love visiting my mother and father’ homeland in Japan. Central to each journey there may be at all times the meals: Oh my goodness, the meals.
Eating is a raging nationwide obsession…