Tokyo - Noodles

Ichiran - Redux
After the museum, we went to a nearby ramen restaurant.  This is one we visited before and is pretty famous in Japan.  It starts as most do, with a visit to the vending machine outside the front door.  You pick your poison, insert some money and out pop paper tickets which you take inside with you.

This is a cubicle restaurant.  You never see any cooks or servers, you simply go find your own little one-person cubicle and sit.

A server appears and pulls back a small curtain.  You fill out some ramen paperwork telling them how much garlic you'd like, how soft you want your noodles, whether you want an egg or not, etc.  You give this and your tickets to the server and they then shut the curtain.  The middle of their torso is all you see.  

We compared our soft boiled eggs, which arrived prior to the ramen.  You have to peel these yourself.

Moments later, the ramen.  Simply delicious.  Also, such a strange and interesting experience no matter how many times I do it.