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Watch a Chef Demonstrate the Proper Way to Eat Ramen

Slurping is expected.

by Whitney Filloon

Via Slurping 101: Tips on How to Eat a Bowl of Ramen [YouTube] and More Ramen Coverage [E]

Apr 23, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC
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To most Americans, slurping food is considered impolite — but when eating ramen, it’s perfectly acceptable and even encouraged. In a video for the Dallas Morning News, chef Teiichi Sakurai — Dallas’s undisputed king of Japanese food and owner of recently opened Ten Ramen — offers some guidance on how to eat a steaming bowl of tonkotsu. As it turns out, “you can eat ramen any way you want to” — but one thing Sakurai does insist upon is speed, otherwise the noodles soak up the broth. “Eating a bowl of ramen shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes,” he says.

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