{"id":24747,"date":"2020-11-13T21:55:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/return-of-a-ramen-pioneer-gives-boost-to-japans-covid-hit-restaurant-sector"},"modified":"2020-11-13T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:55:36","slug":"return-of-a-ramen-pioneer-gives-boost-to-japans-covid-hit-restaurant-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24747","title":{"rendered":"Return of a ramen pioneer gives boost to Japan&#8217;s Covid-hit restaurant sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rai Rai Ken is back in business in Tokyo but pandemic has taken a heavy toll on ramen shops<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than a century after it welcomed its first ravenous customers in downtown Tokyo, Rai Rai Ken is back in business. On a recent afternoon, diners at its new premises in the bowels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raumen.co.jp\/english\/\">Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum<\/a> barely looked up as they demolished servings of noodles made according to the restaurant\u2019s original recipe.<\/p>\n<p>Rai Rai Ken is unlikely to recapture its heyday, when specially hired Chinese chefs served up to 3,000 customers a day in Tokyo\u2019s Asakusa district. But its reappearance last month, albeit away from the cut and thrust of the high street, was a rare piece of good news for Japan\u2019s Covid-hit restaurant sector.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/return-of-a-ramen-pioneer-gives-boost-to-japans-covid-hit-restaurant-sector\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rai Rai Ken is back in business in Tokyo but pandemic has taken a heavy toll on ramen shopsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a century after it welcomed its first ravenous customers in downtown Tokyo, Rai Rai Ken is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24748,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions\/24748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}