rāmen
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rāmen (uncountable)
- Alternative form of ramen
- 1999, Gilles Poitras, The Anime Companion: What’s Japanese in Japanese Animation?, Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 105:
- Ⓐ In Umsei Yatsura (TV tp. 2, ep. 5, st. 9) Ataru is eating rāmen in a restaurant while watching TV. • In Oh My Goddess! (OVA 1), Keiichi’s second takeout order attempt is for rāmen. • Rāmen and pot stickers are being eaten by Ken when Miyuki introduces herself at the station in You’re Under Arrest (OVA 1).
- 2010, Satomi Fukutomi, “Rāmen Connoisseurs: Class, Gender, and the Internet”, in Eric C. Rath, Stephanie Assmann, editors, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 269:
- According to the discussion in online communities, rāmen shops are not conceived as places for the average woman. However, connoisseurs strive to overcome these stereotypes. One female member writes, “I love rāmen and go to rāmen shops by myself. At first I was not comfortable eating alone, but now I am used to it, and there are only a few particular shops where I still feel uncomfortable.”
- 2018, James Farrer, “The Decline of the Neighborhood Chinese Restaurant in Urban Japan”, in The German Journal of Food Studies and Hospitality: Band 2 (2018), IUDICIUM Verlag, →ISBN, page 211:
- “We had a few popular dishes on the menu such as sweet-sour pork and fried pork with green peppers, but few people had money to pay for such main dishes, and most of them just ate rāmen. This was the time of the Sapporo rāmen boom”, Miyuki-san said.
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rāmen