Our enthusiasm for ramen began a few years ago in Düsseldorf. Here is one of the largest Japanese neighborhoods in Europe. So Japanese culture and cuisine were not far from our home, the Ruhr area.
Seven years ago we moved to the Rhine-Main area together. Between Frankfurt and Mannheim we then realized that the self-image of eating traditional ramen at the time was not a matter of course at all.
So we had to pick up the wooden spoon ourselves ...