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NOODLE SELLER

THE LONESOME, weird note of the noodle seller’s horn is one of the most characteristic Japanese sounds. Japanese sometimes refer to “night weeping noodles.”

The noodle man comes out after dark in the winter season, pulling a little house-on-wheels and announcing his passage with his horn. He sells his wares until one or two in the morning, stopping for a few minutes in a likely spot and then moving on. His steaming hot bowls of noodles heated over a charcoal stove and sold at comparatively low prices are very tempting on a cold winter night. One distinctive scene in Japan is a train of noodle carts moving away in the early evening from the noodle cart pool where they have been stored during the day.

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