Today was my first day in work. A pretty boring day filled with minor admin tasks, information overload and loads of answers to questions I will probably forget by the time I wake up tomorrow. The highlight of my day was lunch, a simple but hearty bowl of soup with noodles, omelette and meat, washed down with a nice cup of cold tea. It was delicious and the Japanese man who advised me to add extra spice, was spot on. Thank you.
450 yen it cost me. That’s three points fifty pence or three euros fifty cents. I admit that that was quite cheap, in most places a bowl of ramen would be more like 850-1000 yen. I mention the price because after work I stopped on the way home for a cup of tea; mostly just to get out of the rain. It was a nice enough cafe, in a nice area of Tokyo, it wasn’t a chain but it was a Starbucks / Costa wannabe. I ordered my cup of Earlu Greyer and it came to 410 yen, had I had coffee it would have cost between 500 and 600 yen.
Can anyone explain to me how a scrumptious bowl of soupy noodles, can cost nearly the same as a cup of tea that tasted like it had been made from the typhoon water from Sunday?
Can anyone explain to me how a scrumptious bowl of soupy noodles, can cost nearly the same as a cup of tea that tasted like it had been made from the typhoon water from Sunday?
Gold leaf?
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