Ramen - one of the popular foods in Japan

Do you know "ramen" ?  Ramen is a popular Japanese food, simply put, noodles in hot soup. 
As long as I know, most of the young people in Japan love ramen. 

                      The ramen of "IPPUDO" - tonkotsu

As you can see, there are some toppings: a few slices of meat - "cha-syu," bean sprouts - "moyashi" and sliced green onion - "naganegi." This is the epitome of  ramen in Japan.

In the ramen shop, we usually can choose among four tastes of soup: soy sauce, miso, salt and tonkotsu(pork bone broth). But sometimes the shops specialize in one taste , so if you definitely want to eat one of them, I highly recommend that you check in advance. 

Then what's the difference between these tastes ? Putting these tastes in order of non-fatty, salt, soy sauce, miso and tonkotsu.  "Tonkotsu" is normally greasy and has a strong distinctive smell.

In addition to eating in the ramen shop, we also eat it at home. At the supermarket and convenience stores, there are various kinds of ramens.

The corner of the piles of ramen at the supermarket.

                      

                        

Can you believe that these pictures are at the corners of the same supermarket ?  From these pictures, we can see how much we eat ramen.  

日本人のほとんどが好きなラーメン。日本の有名ラーメンチェーン店が続々と世界各国でオープンし、幅広い国、世代から愛されつつある食べ物となっています。日本では、有名ラーメン店が星の数ほどもありますが、スーパーの棚の一角を見るだけでも日本人がどれくらいラーメンが好きなのかを垣間みることができます。そして実は海外では「ラーメン」という言葉を知っていても、何種類のラーメンが日本にあるのか、ということはあまり知られていないようです。