Thursday, July 21, 2005

After the Rush


After the Rush
Originally uploaded by Tedori.
This is the counter after the lunch rush. Looks desolate, eh? As you can see, the interior is a combination sleek black with accents in red and concrete. Well, I guess you can't see any red, but there is some. When I got there a little after 1:00 PM, there was one customer and three employees. Ah! Two employees were female and they were the cooks! A little different, that. Usually, a male cooks while the females wait. In this store it was role reversal time.


Small miso raamen
Originally uploaded by Tedori.

These two shots of the Samurai no Michi raamen shop show the small bowl of raamen I had and the counter after the lunch rush. The raamen comes in three sizes called "small," "medium," and, uh, oh yeah, "large." The small is ¥500. The lunch, which was a medium and rice with pork, was ¥600. Beer was ¥500, too. While the caption for the picture says 'small miso raamen,' it should say 'small tonkotsu raamen.' In either case, it was delicious.

How to order: You buy a ticket of the food item you want from a machine and hand it to the waiter who is waiting to take the ticket. Then he shouts to the cook what you ordered. I guess this speeds up the process because now you've paid for the meal and when you're finished, you don't have to wait for the cashier to figure out your change.

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