According to Xinhua News Agency, Reuters reported on the 18th that in a Japanese restaurant, noodle soup is no longer a cheap quick food, but a delicacy costing 110 US dollars per bowl and requiring three days of meticulous preparation.
The "Fujiroku Theater Restaurant" in Tokyo, Japan, offers this kind of "Five Flavor Royal Noodles." According to the boss Fujiroku Shouichi, more than 20 kinds of ingredients are added to the noodle soup.
Fujiroku believes that for this reason alone, the "Five Flavor Royal Noodles" is different from the street-side small shop noodle soup and can be called a five-star delicacy.
Fujiroku said: "It's not ordinary ramen, but a delicacy I carefully prepared. My 25 years of cooking experience is embodied in this bowl of noodles. In this world, you can only taste this noodle here."
Fujiroku said he mixed high-grade Chinese soup ingredients with Thai tom yum soup ingredients, then added vegetables, meat, and other ingredients to make this bowl of noodles.
In Japan, noodle soup is very common in snack shops or restaurants, usually costing less than 10 US dollars per bowl.
According to Reuters, it's not as simple as just spending money to eat the "Five Flavor Royal Noodles." Boss Fujiroku requires that only customers who have dined at other restaurants he owns can have the "honor" of tasting the "Five Flavor Royal Noodles."
Many loyal customers of the "Five Flavor Royal Noodles" reflected that although the noodles are expensive, they are worth eating. A 49-year-old named Furusawa Hideko said: "It is indeed expensive, but I think spending ten thousand yen here for a bowl of 'Five Flavor Royal Noodles' is more worthwhile than going to other restaurants ten times to eat a bowl of one-thousand-yen noodle soup."
Fujiroku said that he plans to open a restaurant in Los Angeles, USA, in August this year to sell "Five Flavor Royal Noodles," but he has not yet decided whether to price them the same way.