The first time I heard about ramen was while watching the film “The Ramen Girl” with Brittany Murphy. Abby, the main character, abandoned by her boyfriend, is lost and desperate in a foreign country. She starts working in a ramen restaurant bearing the rigid training of a tyrannical Japanese chef. At the end she understands that to prepare the perfect ramen you need to balance the ingredients, like in life you need to find your inner balance to be happy. I think that the different recipes of ramen is another expression of the Japanese culture: in one bowl you can experience, feel, taste, the perfection of a little colorfull universe as the photos of kinb78 show. I never tried ramen before but I am sure that the day I will, it will be sitting in a ramen restaurant in Japan, I want it all: tasting the flavors, the atmosfere, the cultural experience.
Thanks to the author and the curator, it was like we were travelling together
Thank you for the reply, also for the info about the film. You are right, whenever I taste a bowl of good ramen, I am always surprised by the balance of all the ingredients. I hope you really can go to Japan and taste good ramen one day as your hope, it will never let you down I am pretty sure:)