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07:48 July 16th, 2007

Ramen in common? Pasta towels, please!

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Posted by: Robert Basler

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What’s the easiest way to attract a video crew and a reporter? That’s easy: just get people to pay to take a bath in something grotesque.

In recent months, we’ve covered spas that offered hot baths in curry, chocolate, champagne and other bizarre stuff, and now here’s one that features baths in noodle soup, and not even real noodles! This story angle no longer impresses me. Come back when you’re selling spa treatments in bubbling cheese fondue, dude. Toshi Maeda reports:

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July 16th, 2007 1:37 pm GMT	How about the spa where you sit and let flesh eating fishies nibble at you? Easier than lipo, but still… - Posted by GoingLikeSixty
July 16th, 2007 3:58 pm GMT	The noodle spa was fine until the giant chef came along and grabbed Hirako’s head. - Posted by Charlene
July 16th, 2007 4:52 pm GMT	Hiroki Tada, you are my idol. - Posted by Shawn Hendricks
July 16th, 2007 4:55 pm GMT	The ramen bath is made of inedible materials. Huh. Kind of like real ramen then. - Posted by Shawn Hendricks
July 18th, 2007 3:40 am GMT	Waiter, there’s a Japanese family in my soup. - Posted by John C Abell

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