# On Locality

Ramen is somehow considered as a typical Japanese food worldwide.
I agree with that it is Japanese. By the same reason that pineapple
pizza is a Canadian food and not Italian at all. Curry rice is also
a Japanese food by the same reason.

But it is not typical or traditional at all. In Japan, everyone
thinks it's a Chinese food. Chinese restaurants sell it. With gyoza
and fried rice. If you talk about Japanese foods, Misoshiru should
come the first instead of ramen, tonkatsu, &c.

In fact Japan makes a similar mistake toward China in this case.
Calling a non-Chinese food Chinese. Though there is no unified
version of Chinese lamian.

I guess there are so many things like this in the world. If you
haven't lived there by yourself, you should not easily make arguments
about the localities of other people.