Eating Ramen in Tokyo

Ramen noodle is definitely a very popular food here in Japan, it's also a staple food for the Japanese. Every corner of the road in Tokyo, you'll find a Ramen stall or restaurant. The one that I visited is located at Ikebukuro, at a small alley next to the Seibu Department store.

Like most of the shop here in Tokyo, the space are very limited, hence in most shop you can't find all those fancy round or square tables.

They even have a membership card for us to collect the stamp and redeem a free noodles. And like most of the Ramen shop here in Tokyo, you just need to order the noodle from the vending machine, print out the receipt and passed to the waitress.

The advantage of this system is that, there won't be throat cutting/foreigner prices. Because the prices are listed and we paid for what we order.

The disadvantage is that, in some area or some restaurant, they don't have the menu in English. Hence the tourist have no idea what to order.

We order this two, both comes with tons of spring onion.

And a huge slices of pork belly.

The average prices of Ramen noodles here is between 800yen-1200yen.

Last but not least, there's no trip to Japan is complete without a bowl of Ramen Noodles.