The way of eating noodle in Japan

Listen to this. This is the way of eating noodle in Japan; you slurp. It's not rude in Japan. You are expected to eat noodle in this way. Don't be shy.

We went to Kitakata in Fukushima prefecture by Tohoku Shinkansen. It's about two and half hours from Tokyo. It's famous for ramen (Chinese style egg noodle). There are fanatics loving ramen in Japan. I'm probably one of them. This time, we went there because it was on the way to a hot spring, which was a purpose of our trip.

There are millions of noodle shops in Japan (not exaggerating). People travel to look for delicious noodles. There are TV programmes to show popular noodle shops. There are many articles about them in magazines.

Listen again. This is the way of eating ramen.