today, i watched the recent top gear episode that was all about japan 🇯🇵
as i’m feeling particularly japanese, i thought today’s fact should be about japan 😁
#tdil that there is a meal in japan called ‘wanko soba’ (lol) that you have to eat loads of! 🍜
right, i’m probably going to use the name of the dish ‘wanko soba’ quite a lot in this post 🙈 so let’s take a minute to just lol at the name like little school children 😂 … we good? got it out of your system? 🙃
onwards! so, eating wanko soba is actually a bit of a good challenge that sees peeps eating loads and loads of bowls of noodles 👍🏻
it’s a speciality meal in the ‘iwate prefecture’ that is quite literally just a mouthful of super tasty noodles in a bowl 😏 not much of a challenge so far 🤷🏻♂️
well, here’s the hard bit – when you finish your bowl of noodles, another is instantly placed in front of you … again and again and again and again 🙈
the idea is to eat as many as you can as quickly as you can … like, the server will literally stand next to you and shout “jan jan”, which means “more, more!” 😳
apparently, the origins of this eating challenge can be traced back hundreds of years to a dude that threw a party but didn’t have enough food for everyone #awks 😅. in order to feed everyone equally, he split the noodles in small bowls 🍜
anyway, feel like you can set records in this challenge? well, you’ll have to beat around 559 bowls 😏 best make your way over to the iwate prefecture … appaz the best restaurant for it is ‘azumaya’ in the city of morioka ✈️
this has ended up longer than planned 😂 #iliketowaffle 🥞 as such, let’s end it there! 😁
peace out yo ✌🏻 #tdil
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food and japan … two amazing things that everyone needs more of 🙌🏻 anyhew, fancy some more facts about things? just take a goose over ->here<-
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