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Ramen is now a familiar part of American cuisine. You might think of instant noodles, your favorite ramen joint, and even trendy takes on the Japanese noodle soup like ramen burgers. But back in 1985, the year of the now-cult film Tampopo’s release, ramen hadn’t yet hit the mainstream. In his four-star review of the film, Rogert Ebert lauds the film’s “satire of Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti Westerns” and depiction of the “search for the perfect noodle,” but never once uses the term “ramen.”
Tampopo may have been one of the first depictions of ramen in American pop culture, and we can’t imagine a better first introduction.
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