Ramen, although popular around the world, has been historically and politically associated with this city for many centuries. Which city is it?

Certain culinary experts and historians such as Professor George Solt, a history professor at New York University, have for years researched and examined from a historical perspective the role ramen played or plays for people in Tokyo and every other part of Japan. Currently concerning all the small businesses in Japan, eighty percent of them are ramen shops (restaurants).

Professor Solt has traced ramen from its origins, as a distinctly Chinese soup that arrived in Japan with Chinese tradesmen in the nineteenth century, through the American occupation after the war, to the proliferation of instant ramen in Japan in the seventies; the national frenzy in the eighties and nineties that gave birth to ramen celebrities, ramen museums, and ramen video games. Also, in America there has been its very strong embrace of ramen and Japanese culture today. Now this is exhibited by the cult like craze surrounding Americans buying sixteen-dollar bowls of ramen served by the celebrity chef David Chang.