Cultural Tips

Ramen restaurants in Japan often have a unique way of ordering. If you don’t see any cash counter and you see a ticket machine (shokken) near the entrance, the restaurant is a ticket order style.

Before you take a seat, you buy a ticket for whatever you may eat. You have to choose what you’ll have right away after entering the restaurant. After you buy a ticket, you pass it to the staff and take a seat.

Ramen restaurants tend to be a place where you spend time just for eating. That’s why many ramen restaurants only have small space for eating.

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You can often choose some toppings along with the dish. The popular toppings are as follows;
-Menma; lacto-fermented, dried, and seasoned bamboo shoots.
-Chachu; tender, slow-braised pork belly.
-Tamago; a boiled seasoned egg.
-Nori; nori seaweed
-Negi; green onions.
Sometimes the toppings are the extra, that you already have some on your regular dish, so you have to check before you order.

A guilty pleasure is that you can order ramen with rice. It’s not crucial yet a common way to enjoy ramen; after you eat ramen, you put some soup on rice and eat it all.

Or there is a system called "Kaedama," that after you eat all of the noodles and left with soup, you can order extra noodles for a reasonable price. This way you can fine-tune the amount of noodles to suit your appetite and also enjoy freshly cooked noodles that stay firm right to the last bite.

Seach for ramen restaurant around Yokosuka!