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Caption: RAMEN
ラーメン
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Caption: Choose your dish from the vending machine options.
If you're lucky you can read Japanese or the machine has pictures like this one.
Otherwise pick a random option or rope in a bemused local to help.
As a bonus you can press one of the "extras" buttons randomly. Will you end up with a bowl of rice on the side or chilies? NB This is probably not the proper way to do it
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Caption: It's cheap!
¥680 (about £4 or $5) gets you one very filling bowl of soup
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Caption: Pick a seat
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Caption: One steaming bowl of soup noodles on its way.
This one is Tonkotsu, a rich, a creamy pork bone broth topped with Chashu, thick melting slices of roast pork along with soft-boiled soy eggs, leeks, spring onion, wakame seaweed and menma, preserved bamboo shoots.
The possibilities are endless and tasty
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Caption: Add chilli, soy sauce or ground toasted sesame
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Caption: SLURP
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Caption: The end
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