Q 01/05

At many ramen shops in Japan, what do you use to order and pay before you sit down?

A) A cashier at the door

B) A ticket machine

C) A paper order slip

D) An order window outside

Answer · why

B) A ticket machine

A ticket machine takes the order along with the money, which cuts ordering mistakes and helps shops that are short of staff.

Q 02/05

Ramen's name is usually traced to the Chinese word lāmiàn, which literally means what?

A) Thin noodles

B) Pulled noodles

C) Wheat noodles

D) Soup noodles

Answer · why

B) Pulled noodles

Pulled noodles is the dictionary meaning, but one story says a Hokkaido restaurant coined 'ramen' from its Chinese cook's shout of 'hao le'.

Q 03/05

Who invented instant noodles in 1958?

A) Kan'ichi Ozaki

B) Momofuku Ando

C) Hiroshi Osaki

D) Seiichi Yoshida

Answer · why

B) Momofuku Ando

Momofuku Ando developed them alone in a shed behind his house, working every day for a year and discarding countless trial batches.

Q 04/05

Tonkotsu ramen is the signature style of which Japanese island?

A) Kyushu

B) Hokkaido

C) Honshu

D) Shikoku

Answer · why

A) Kyushu

Kyushu's milky broth is said to have begun in 1947, when a Kurume stall's stock was accidentally boiled too hard.

Q 05/05

Miso ramen was invented in which Hokkaido city?

A) Sapporo

B) Asahikawa

C) Muroran

D) Otaru

Answer · why

A) Sapporo

Sapporo's own ramen was mostly soy-flavoured until a restaurant there, Aji no Sanpei, came up with miso ramen.