ramen

Ramen after the other kitchens close.

Two cooks at work in a small noodle kitchen, stockpots and stacked bowls behind them

A stool at the counter for whoever is still up.

Find the counter

Every stool faces the pot.

Order across the counter and the bowl comes straight over it, for cooks off shift, nurses off nights and the last ones out. Eat it hot, then give your stool to whoever is waiting.

A cook in a white cap stretching noodles by hand over a floured steel counter

A bowl, from the top down.

The tare goes in first and the toppings last.

  1. Toppings

    Laid on last, eaten first.

  2. Aroma oil

    A thin slick of fat that carries the smell to you.

  3. Noodles

    Lifted from the boil and folded in while they still have bite.

  4. Broth

    The deep part, ladled hot over the tare.

  5. Tare

    The seasoning at the bottom that salts the whole bowl.

Come by once the street’s quiet.

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A row of bentwood stools along a wooden counter