I love food stalls, especially hot soup, ramen, oden. Japan is definitely a great country to visit and try out food stalls. I love the informal atmosphere where people can talk and enjoy warm food. 😋🤤🤤
Can you imagine dedicating your life to the perfection of your craft? But today, you ask for an extra large coffee at Starbucks and employees have breakdowns
The only way Americans could pull off similar mobile small eateries were food stands at markets, carnivals, festivals, and circuses. There is protection and safety in numbers. In Japan all of these old-time, mobile ramen stands set up in quiet parts of the city on the secondary streets near the main streets. You could never do that in the United States because of the violent crime and robbery. The poor ramen stand proprietors would be assaulted, beaten, robbed, and even killed. That is a sad indictment on urban life in America, isn't it? It looks to be a nostalgic but dying way of old-time life in Japan when it was very commonplace and in huge numbers. All of the ramen stand owners, with exception, look to be old men. No one will take their places when they pass away.
It's a pity why it's hard to run a small food stall in America.One of the reasons why the number of ramen stalls in Japan is decreasing is that it is difficult to get permission to operate on the road.We must protect this culture.
