One noodle at a time

And when the noodles are finally gone, the bowl empty of everything but a few oleaginous blobs, each diner sets his bowl back upon the counter, mumbles “Gochiso-sama deshita” — roughly “Thank you for the meal” — pays the 700-yen fee (about $7.85 at 89 yen to the dollar) and wanders back out into the daylight world where Ganko suddenly seems like a hallucination, a Wonderland dream of noodly bliss.
-One Noodle at a Time in Tokyo.

What's on for lunch today?
Looks like it's going to be a serving of melancholy with a siding of pensiveness, hopefully with afew of those crispy noodles sprinkled on top.