$3 Ramen Vs. $79 Ramen • Japan

- Here we are. For the last three episodes of season three, we're here doing Worth It Japan. We've brought along our friend, colleague, cultural guide translator and tasty producer, Rie McClenny. - Hello. - Three meals, three parts,

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, coffee, cake. - There will be trains, vending machines, walking, other things, eating things that are not in the episodes, sweating, dancing, sweating. - This is true? Like we'd peaked with Worth It. - Well, we couldn't make sushi here. - We can always come back. - We are already planning our second trip to Japan and we haven't started the first one yet, I love it, let's go. -Ramen. -Ramen. -Ramen. -Ramen. - Ha! (laughs) Today we're going to try three

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at three drastically different prices to find out which ramen is worth the most at its price. - It's worth it. - Probably the most requested episode of all time.

Buckle up, let's make ramen. - I think this is going to be a ramenber experience. - Well. (laughs) (speaking in a foreign language) That's so cheap, how is it possible? (speaking in a foreign language) How much do you eat ramen? (speaking in a foreign language) - Today we will also eat gyoza. Can we know how they are made? (speaking in a foreign language) so he is the expert? (speaking in a foreign language) - We have eaten ramen in the United States, but in Japan, is there anything we should know before eating ramen? (speaking in a foreign language) (laughing) - First meal in Japan. - I'm ready. - Is there something we should say before eating? (speaking in a foreign language) - One more time? (speaking in a foreign language) - Kind of like thank you for this meal. (speaking in a foreign language) - Wow. - Oh, I'm so happy.

Plane Steven, go. - Japan Steven wakes up. Oh man, he attacks the bowl. - Do you know what I love about noodles? They're like French fries, you can't eat just one French fry. - Yes, there are two types of people, people who make individual fryers or people who make claw fryers, and ramen is a mandatory claw food. I need some pork. - Pork belly in ramen? Oh. Pork belly is like bacon has bacon in it. How did you start working here? (speaking in a foreign language) - Did you get that motorcycle? (speaking in a foreign language) - And you got it by selling ramen for 300 yen.

So how many ramen do you have to sell to buy a motorcycle? (laughs) (speaking in a foreign language) - What sauce should we use? (speaking in a foreign language) - Oh, more more more, oh, for Rie and Adam, for Matt and Yu too. Let's eat some gyoza. (speaking in a foreign language) - Oh my God, high five? - So many things happen in your mouth. - Yes, it's charred on one side and completely soft on the other. It goes straight to the mouth. Very delicious. (speaking in a foreign language) - You are very quiet. - Rin Rin for the victory. - I don't know what I expected for 300 yen, but it was like the best bowl of ramen I've ever had. - What can you get with 300 yen?

I mean, like three dollars in the state. - A taco. - Ready for the ramen fact? - One two three. - Made from ramen. - Made from ramen. - It's a wave, you have to do it. - I do not have to. - Japan is now home to at least 30 different types of regional ramen varieties. - You would have to invest a lot of time to experience each ramen. - Hey, judge the sway of my body. I took dance classes. - 2.8 out of 10. (speaking in a foreign language) - There are so many ramen places in Japan, how did you want to differentiate yourself from other places? (speaking in a foreign language) - Thank you. - It looks awesome. - This is incredible. (speaking in a foreign language) - Enjoying the broth first. - Does that show you ramen?

Oh. - Yeah? - Excuse me, once again. - It's very very good, but you knew that, right? - Okay, tell me what it tastes like. Give me two words. - Primordial soup. Flavors colliding in space until life is born, that is this soup. - Can I tell you that my favorite part of this soup is the noodles and how perfect they are for slurping, chewing and containing the truffle flavor, like I have never tasted a more perfect noodle? - I'm going to eat a little pork. - Wow, the pig. - Oh my god, the fat in that is incredible.

There's something so comforting about a bowl of soup and noodles, you know, like a warm hug. - That's how ramen is, eating a bowl of ramen is like me doing this to you. - It's nothing like that. - The truffle has a very strong flavor. Soy sauce, a very strong flavor. Being able to take all these powers and make them get along is not easy. - The best part is that you can steam your face all the time. I think my face will taste very good after this meal. - And the soup is gone. - Boss is everyone's boss, just like me.

I wonder if I was supposed to shake it. I'll ask Rie. Was she supposed to shake this? - I don't think so, oh yes. - Was? - Yes. (bleep) - My God, it's thick, cheers. - How nice. - It's like drinking a cake. - Made from ramen. - Made from ramen. (speaking in a foreign language) - Ramen is actually believed to come from China. - I mean I like to know where things come from. - I actually don't know where we're going. - We are going to (speaking in a foreign language) serve a menu of dishes, the main dish is ramen. - Oh, like a multi-course menu. - Yes, it's a three-course menu. - Is there truffle? - No truffle. - Gold? - No gold. - Caviar - No, no caviar. - Hey! (speaking in a foreign language) This is one of my favorite dishes.

In Chinese it is chicken with saliva, because it makes you salivate, I like that. - Yes. (speaking in a foreign language) tender. - Does this count as chicken salad? I've been eating spoiled chicken salad my entire life. (speaking in a foreign language) - How? (laughing) I'm sorry. - There is a small gambling operation. I appreciate a dish that makes you not eat quickly. - Oh, that's so good. - They're like little water balloons of tasty fish oh (bleep) it gets better the deeper you go. You're splashing everywhere. - I know I'm sorry. - You have juice on my personalized menu. - I'm sorry. (speaking in a foreign language) - This is something that I was really very excited about.

I thought I would have to go to Spain to experience this for the first time. (speaking in a foreign language) oh God. How that? Oh it's good. Oh yes, I'm already connected. -How do you say wow in Japanese? (speaking in a foreign language) - Oh, that's nice. - Which has like the flavor of bacon but the texture of steak. - Do you have an appetite? (speaking in a foreign language) - Oh, very good. (speaking in a foreign language) That's amazing, how many strokes should we do? Until it starts to curl, right? - Three times. - The texture of the tongue is incredible.

I thought it would be weird for me to press someone else's tongue against mine, but no, I really like it. It's like I'm French kissing my food. - Yes, stew is a very familiar Lim Thanksgiving. - I'm just going to have a piece of the shoulder because it looks amazing. Oh that's OK. - That's like a kiss. Laugh. I made one for you. (speaking in a foreign language) - Hmm, the broth is amazing. - Refreshing. Think about it. It's soy sauce and it's refreshing. - Oh, they have an incredible texture. It has a lot of chew.

But it is not the same as aldente spaghetti. - No, it breaks very easily. - I'm going to try the pork. - Well well. Oh, there's the chewing, oh. - That's amazing, there's something about a bowl of ramen that has so much oomph as a meal. - They just continually evolve as you eat more. This is like a massage. When you get a massage you say oh yeah. - Oh no no no. I'm in the most humid place I've ever been and all I want is more hot noodle casserole. - Thank you. - OMG, just when I thought the progression of comforting hot soupy things couldn't get any better, this is like the pinnacle. - This is home.

Guys, I'm so happy right now, I'm in a food coma. - I'm like a food cobra, they've hit me with ramen like it was a coat hanger. Also a snake bite. If I went back to Japan, Rin Rin would be the first place I would go, Tsuta would be the place I couldn't leave without going, so Tsuta is my worthwhile winner. - My worthwhile winner, I mean the 8,500 yen set menu at (speaking in a foreign language). I want to, but I will say, my worthwhile winner is the 900 yen shoyu ramen at Tsuta. - Laugh, it's worth it, winner& - I can go to Rin Rin as if I were sitting in front of (speaking in a foreign language) and stay there for a whole day. - Adam, what is your winning value? -Rin rin?

This is just the first part of three of our adventure in Japan. - Advance alert. - What do we have to eat before we leave? - All. - Okay, we'll eat everything.