A friend of mine, foreigner lady, was ranting the other day about her experience with Japanese men on a dating site. She said: why do they all write that their hobby is eating ramen? Not skiing or other sports or you know, Warhammer 40000 - but the most mundane activity of eating noodles. Don’t they have anything more interesting in their life?
Oh girl, you don’t know about the ramen. (Well, besides the point that being modest and not bragging about “oh I like paragliding” is generally seen as a good thing in Japanese mentality) Anyways, each town, each place - have their own unique taste.