A Cold Japanese Lager

Name: A Cold Japanese Lager
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Japanese-style lager (crisp, dry, rice-brewed), very cold; A small chilled glass — refill often, pour high

Serve when

Pour it with the finished bowl — the counter-side drink of every ramen shop worth its tare.

What to drink

Ramen counters run on cold lager — the crisp, dry, rice-adjacent beer that cuts pork fat and salt like a squeegee. The film's men drink like they eat (seriously), and a chilled Japanese-style lager is the honest glass beside Tampopo's bowl: keep it cold, pour it hard for the foam, drink it faster than you meant to.

What to drink

Lager is ramen's house wine — brisk enough to reset your palate between slurps and humble enough to never upstage the broth.

Ingredients

Japanese-style lager (crisp, dry, rice-brewed), very cold
A small chilled glass — refill often, pour high

Method

Chill the beer and the glass until both sweat.
Pour aggressively down the middle for two fingers of foam.
Alternate: noodles, broth, beer. Repeat to the bottom of the bowl.