Food & drink

ramen

Japanese ramen borrows the Chinese name lāmiàn, 'pulled noodles', although the soup itself grew out of the southern Chinese noodle dishes of Yokohama's Chinatown; instant noodles from 1958 carried the word to Korea, Brazil and the West, and the 2000s ramen-shop craze took it to Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Tel Aviv.

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