Noodle soup for breakfast
 

In Japan rice is the staple food often eaten up to 3 times a day. However, noodles (soba,ramen,udon,somen) are also popular especially in soups.

In Tokyo I stayed at a hostel in Asakusa and would sometimes eat noodle soup for breakfast. In most other places I did not find noodle shops open before 11 am. I also saw noodle shops open in the morning at Tsukiji, Imamiya (Osaka) and some 24 hour chains that had noodles on the menu.

A Japanese friend seemed nearly shocked that I or anyone would eat noodles for breakfast, and I don't know why.
Is it uncommon to do so?

I am interested to know if anyone could provide further information.

日本人： "It's too oily to eat for breakfast..."

ramen for breakfast? yeah, i'll say, it's a bit too heavy. I had shabu shabu for breakfast sometime last week, i think. I felt like a God on rollerskates afterwards. :cool: Nabe is great in the morning too, especially on witer.

Learnt something new. I never thought about noodles for breakfast before. But I am now confused as I have been served fish for breakfast at some ryokans. How can noodles be considered to be too heavy but fish not be?

I've had many kinds of noodles for breakfast. In fact, yesterday morning I had a local kind of udon for breakfast. I don't think it's too uncommon where I live. Of course the udon was prepared cool, which is appropriate for the heat/humidity of this time of year. However, in the winter hot noodles in the morning is a good way to start the day.

However, I think ramen is indeed pushing it. I have had it before, though. I think my wife's family had done it some times when she was growing up as well. I think 冷やし中華 would be fine, but like a full blown hot ramen in the morning is in my opinion a bit too heavy.

I have a friend who does a lot of traveling around Japan-- last year he went to Hakata, where he said finding ramen shops in the morning was not unusual at all. Supposedly it's a pretty popular thing to eat in the morning down there! Of course neither him nor I are from there, so I can't speak for certain.

I have not asked anybody about this, but to me udon or soba would not seem so strange, but ramen has a bit of an unhealthy stigma to it here (even the real stuff not just cup noodle etc) so I could see a lot of Japanese feeling a bit strange about eating it for breakfast. Every Japanese style breakfast I have had screamed healthiness.

Fish with rice is quite common in the morning in Japan that is what my friend said she has for her breakfast.

Interesting how in some regions it is a common breakfast in comparison to others. Something tells me there is also differences within the larger cities. While I don't think most soups are too oily, I don't think most ramen would be delicate enough for breakfast.

i sometimes eat ramen (if you can call it that) during my breakfast. :cool:
well...its a 25 cent instant ramen pack which i pour over with water and add some ham/sausage or smth.

the breakfast of champions:)

I just had a can of coke, and fried rice from 7-11 for breakfast at 3:30pm...

Now that's what I call the good life :) lol

Yeah! I'll say!

I've always been a cereal man. I want to try the Kellog's cereals that I can't get over here.

Cereal guy myself... I'm gonna speak on behalf of all (American at least) cereal lovers- Japanese cereal leaves much to be desired. It's no wonder Japanese people all say cereal is too sweet. I do believe their cereal is made with different base ingredients as well.

Can you get porridge in Japan? Is it still Scot's?

I actually don't really mind the cereal. Coop sells a good off brand that's better than paying like 500 yen for two bowls worth of Kellog's Frosted Flakes. It's actually the milk for me that tastes different. I don't know if it's because it's from a carton, has less crap added to it, or what.

And yeah, the noodle thing for breakfast is kinda weird.

Me too, If I don't have a time to prepare my breakfast, I just get an instant ramen pack in my stock, and it taste good too.

Ramen would be too fatty for breakfast for most Japanese. Udon should be okay though, especially when it's cold outside. Doesn't sound too uncommon to me.

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the mexican food in japan seems very exquisite and delicious of-course...:rheart:

for really cheap college students lol