Enter The (Nagahama) Dragon.
Once, we were hanging out with another family, and the father took all the kids to the toy store and told them to each pick a toy.
It was a culture shock for us, but we played along since we didn’t have a home-court advantage.
“What did you pick?” The mother friend asked her son.
The son showed her a police car.
“Another police car? You have six of these!” She exclaimed.
“You gotta check this new place out. It’s yabai,” Ryuji said in October. “I can’t describe it, people either love it or hate it,” he said.
He’s talking about Nagahama Dragon, a new tonkotsu ramen shop in their neighbourhood.
As he drove us in last week, I couldn’t help thinking about the boy and his police toy car.
Another tonkotsu ramen place?
You guys have six thousand of these!
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