Tonight is the Ramen Challenge in Sakawa. Twenty-odd foreigners will try to eat four bowls of ramen, including the soup, in under thirty minutes. Successful challengers don't have to pay for their food and they get a Polaroid up on the wall. Failures have to pay for their food. The restaurant has been running this contest for the past 18 years. Only 104 people have succeeded. Of those 104, only two have been foreigners. Wish us luck!