Secret of the US$110 super noodles
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February 19, 2010, Friday
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A JAPANESE restaurateur has turned the nation's everyday comfort food, ramen or noodle soup, into a pricey, gourmet affair that costs more than US$100 and takes three days to prepare.
The "Five-taste Blend Imperial Noodles" offered at Tokyo's Fujimaki Gekijyo restaurant is ultimately just a bowl of soup and noodles, albeit an expensive one.
But owner Shoichi Fujimaki said it's the soup, and the more than 20 ingredients used to make it, that elevate the dish from street food into five-star cuisine.
"It's not really ramen. This is my cuisine, it's my 25 years of experience distilled into one bowl," Fujimaki said as he poured ingredients into a bubbling pot. "This is the only place in the world that people have this kind of soup."
A bowl of ramen from any of the tens of thousands of little shops and stalls that are everywhere in Japan will set you back US$10 at most.
Fujimaki's ramen costs US$110 a bowl and uses top-grade Chinese stock blended with another stock inspired by the spicy, Thai tom yum soup as well as spices, meats and vegetables.
"It's certainly expensive, however, I think that it is sometimes better to come here and spend 10,000 yen (US$110) than to go to another place and spend 1,000 yen, 10 times," said Hideko Furusawa, a 49-year-old diner.
The "Five-taste Blend Imperial Noodles" offered at Tokyo's Fujimaki Gekijyo restaurant is ultimately just a bowl of soup and noodles, albeit an expensive one.
But owner Shoichi Fujimaki said it's the soup, and the more than 20 ingredients used to make it, that elevate the dish from street food into five-star cuisine.
"It's not really ramen. This is my cuisine, it's my 25 years of experience distilled into one bowl," Fujimaki said as he poured ingredients into a bubbling pot. "This is the only place in the world that people have this kind of soup."
A bowl of ramen from any of the tens of thousands of little shops and stalls that are everywhere in Japan will set you back US$10 at most.
Fujimaki's ramen costs US$110 a bowl and uses top-grade Chinese stock blended with another stock inspired by the spicy, Thai tom yum soup as well as spices, meats and vegetables.
"It's certainly expensive, however, I think that it is sometimes better to come here and spend 10,000 yen (US$110) than to go to another place and spend 1,000 yen, 10 times," said Hideko Furusawa, a 49-year-old diner.
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