Using their noodles

A Japanese ramen restaurant is an instant hit in Shanghai, Xu Junqian reports.

At 2:40 pm a week ago, the sign reading "Sorry, noodles sold out" was put outside Ramen Nagi Universal Noodle in Shanghai's K11 Art Mall.

It was just the second week after the Tokyo ramen chain opened its first outlet in China: 400 bowls of noodles had been sold in fewer than four hours. People line up when the shop opens at 10 am to slurp the rich pork-broth noodles.