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We have several types of noodles machines, designed for different types of noodles and production capacity. Also, we have different machines for different regions/countries. Also, because we ship all our machines from our factory in Japan, to estimate the total cost of getting a noodle machine, we need your shipping terms (for example, if you want us to arrange door-to-door shipping, we need your address of delivery). So, please first ask us and provide necessary information.

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It depends on which country you’re importing the machine into as each country has its rates for different types of products imported. So, please let us know which country you’re thinking of importing our noodle machine to.

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Please refer to Global Agents page. We may have agents not listed on this page. Please ask us. You may be able to order and get the machine even if we don’t have a distributor/agent in your country.

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When our customers have troubles with their noodles machines, they first contact us to report the symptoms. By means of remote communication, such as Skype, Whatsapp, WeChat, etc., we first diagnose what’s causing the machine problem and come up with the fastest way to fix it. When the repair requires certain parts and/or certain degree of technical skills, we would dispatch our engineer or local technician. Our maintenance team operates 365 days a year. Please contact us if you need further information on how we provide servicing in your country.

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Warranty period is 12 months from installation date of a noodle machine. We would provide parts, free of charge during the warranty period. We will continue to support all our official machines users after the warranty period is over. Please feel free to contact us for more information.

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After a customer purchases our noodle machine, we provide everything the customer needs to start producing high quality noodles from scratch by his or herself. They may include training, ingredients, noodle recipes, or anything else the customer needs to start making the type(s) of noodles he or she wants to produce.

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Production lead-time is 4-5 weeks from purchase order. Shipping lead-time depends on where you are. For North America and Europe, if shipping by ocean/boat, it is usually 6-7 weeks. If going with air shipping, which may be possible under reasonable costs, it should be 1-2 weeks. Please feel free to contact if interested in getting a quote for our noodle machine.

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Which machine we can recommend for you depends on your production needs. For example, if you want to make soba, which is made of buckwheat flour, what is the percentage of buckwheat flour mix for the soba noodles you want to make? If it is 100% buckwheat flour mix, then the only option may be our soba noodles machine, BandoTaro, which can also produce certain types of ramen noodles and udon noodles. But, the type(s) of ramen noodles that can be made on our soba machine are high in hydration. For example, Hakata style tonkotsu ramen noodles are low in hydration, so they cannot be made on soba machine. (noodles made on soba machine need to be over 45% in hydration ratio. Richmen or our ramen machines are good at making noodles that are low hydration (25-40%). These machines can also produce certain types of soba and udon noodles as well, but they need to be low-medium hydration. As for soba noodles made on ramen machine, buckwheat mix ratio need to be less than 50% (the other 50% needs to be wheat flour or other ingredients with some gluten). Please let us know your production needs (maximum daily production volume and type(s)/size(s) of noodles you want to make. And, we can suggest an option best suitable for your production needs. To consult with our representative, please contact us.

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The ratio of ramen business newcomers and established ramen professionals in Yamato Ramen School is about 50/50. Moreover, some of our students choose to enroll in our ramen course multiple times to perfect their skills, and use it as a venue for development of new menus and creation of new recipes.

Below are the most prominent characteristics of our Ramen cooking school:

1. Students can study at any of the three school branches:
   1. Our Headquarters in Kagawa prefecture (Japan)
   2. Yamato MFG Tokyo office (Japan)
   3. Office in Singapore

   The ramen schools in Japan are mainly taught in Japanese (English interpreting is available upon a special request), and classes at the ramen school in Singapore are conducted mainly in English and Chinese.

2. Working with a great variety of ingredients:
   1. A wide choice of soup stock types to learn and practice on:
      1. Thick (saturated) animal-base soup stock:
         • Hakata tonkotsu
         • Thick stock from pork thigh bones
         • Thick stock from pork back bones
         • Toripaitan (either from chicken carcasses or whole chickens)
         • Beef paitan (upon a special request)
      2. Light (clear) animal-base soup stock:
         • Light stock from pork thigh bones
         • Light stock from pork back bones
         • Light stock from whole chickens
         • Light stock from chicken carcasses
         • Beef chintan (upon a special request)
      3. Variety of fish- and other sea food-base soup stocks:
         • Kelp
         • Dried sardines
         • Mackerel
         • Round herring
         • Sea bream, Oysters other types of clams (upon a special request)
      4. Vegetable-base soup stock:
         • Radish
         • Pumpkin
         • Tomato
         • Carrot
         • Onion
         • Garlic
         • Celery
      5. Fruit-base soup stock:
         • Apple
         • Pineapple
         • Coconut milk, etc.

         Yamato Ramen School also always tries to accommodate special requests from its students regarding the ingredients they want to use.
         Also available are ‘clear-rich’ types of chintan stock characterized by translucency on the one hand and saturated texture on the other (achieved by a method of “two-step boiling”), as well as very light (clear) types of soup stock.

   2. A wide choice of Motodare base sauces prepared on salt, soy sauce and miso base (more than 50 different types)
   3. A wide choice of flavored oils – both animal and vegetable (more than 20 different types)
3. Using only natural ingredients (no artificial additives / chemical taste enhancers)
   Additionally available are vegan and halal options.
4. Digital cooking approach
   Preparation of even the most difficult to cook soup types is taught using a digital cooking method, so understanding and learning it is easy wherever in the world a student had come from or wherever they plan to use their knowledge and skills. We also use data-oriented approach when offering free consultations to our graduates.
5. Highly experienced teaching staff will help you to achieve the desired quality of soup.
   Yamato Ramen School instructors make sure our students are able to fully develop the recipes they wanted to create.
6. Ability to come for an observation tour before enrollment
   If you do not feel confident to apply at the moment, you can always come for a study tour, and decide after.
7. Stellar track record
   A great number of famous ramen chefs have graduated from Yamato Ramen School throughout its history, and restaurants run by our former students constantly earn highest ratings both in Japan and abroad.
8. After-graduation support
   Yamato Ramen School strives to provide its students with continuous help even after their graduation (special alumni groups and free consultation help-desks are available)
9. Kitchen settings thoroughly equipped with cutting-edge cooking appliances
   Yamato Ramen School uses only induction heating devices (which emit no heat by themselves) making it easier to stay in kitchen during culinary practice. So, the cooking approaches students learn are optimized for current labor-market circumstances when people are becoming more reluctant to work in the food industry.
10. Business counselling sessions to ensure long-term commercial success
    On a business lecture part of the course, students are taught management concepts and approaches to help them build successful businesses, emphasizing long-term oriented strategies instead of short-term profit seeking.

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No artificial taste enhancers are used throughout Yamato Ramen School curriculum.
All cooking methods are based on using only natural ingredients.

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We always pay big attention to photogenic aspects of our plating styles. Besides, students have a free access to a vast database of plating patterns from the past.

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Ratings on review sites are very important. To a very large degree they are affected by product quality and a level of service available in a particular restaurant – students are able to comprehensively study the significance of those issues throughout all curriculum of Yamato Ramen School.

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Many factors come into play when you try to increase your sales figures like quality of food and level of client service, restaurant’s appeal to customers, etc., among which the easiest one to quickly improve on is the quality of food. Many restaurants are oblivious to really important issues, or may even be doing quite the opposite of what they should. Our Ramen School program is focused on teaching students the business strategies and practical skills that will be useful for them to maintain high standards of product quality in their restaurants.

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Ramen cuisine is constantly evolving at a rapid pace, so past knowledge may not only turn rather useless, but even become detrimental as it would be out of touch with customers’ tastes. At Yamato Ramen School students are able to familiarize themselves with the latest ramen industry trends, the most up-to-date know-hows and modern ramen making techniques – which are quickly incorporated into our curriculum, and adjusted according to particular students’ needs.

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For self-studied but successful people acquiring strong theoretical and practical basis even further raises their competence – so, learning ramen from highly trained and established ramen instructors at Yamato Ramen School allows experienced students to become even more flexible in application of their ramen making skills, and enables them to develop new menus.

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We have seen many such sad examples of people who took ramen lightly, and thought that they could easily build profitable ramen businesses – more often than not that is not the case. A ramen, udon or soba restaurant may seem like something you can start with very relatively little investment, and many people opportunistically think they can just open it, and begin making money right away. Many people with such backgrounds have participated in our Ramen School, and to our credit we were able to help many of them.
We strongly advise you to join our ramen course until it is too late.

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We do actually have many students who have previously attended other schools. What distinguishes Yamato Ramen School is that our curriculum emphasizes providing clear explanation of all the fundamentals of ramen cuisine (the whys), does not use any artificial ingredients and taste enhancers, as well as does not rely purely on intuition but uses digital cooking approach allowing for numerical representation of recipes so any person no matter where in the world they came from is able to learn and replicate them.

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Alongside with standard ramen soup varieties (tonkotsu ramen, shio ramen, miso ramen, shoyu ramen, etc.) at Yamato Ramen School students can learn any type of ramen soup they are interested in. Recent examples of ramen soups our school helped to develop included soups made from white asparagus, red paprika, apples, avocados, bananas, as well as vegan types of ramen soup, or those made from such ingredients as fresh sea bream, mackerel, clams, etc. All soups are made only from natural ingredients.

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There are many possible reasons behind quality inconsistency of ramen soup from batch to batch (including but not limited to neglecting to control cooking conditions and flavor extraction rate). All aspects of soup making, including important points on maintaining quality, are thoroughly covered in Yamato Ramen School curriculum.

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Several possible explanations could be given for staff’s lack of professional growth including insufficient training or failing to hire industrious people in the first place. Students of Yamato Ramen School have a valuable opportunity to learn about personnel-related factors of ramen business on a management part of the course.

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Absolutely. Yamato Ramen School offers its students efficient working solutions for in-house production of noodles based on thorough calculation of required investment and estimated profits where expenses on personnel are fully taken into account. Such emphasis on business-oriented approach is one of the features that distinguish Yamato Ramen School making it a perfect starting point for aspiring ramen entrepreneurs and established noodle business owners alike.

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Please check the following page, which gets updated from time to time. As for the daily schedule, it depends on which course it is, but the course usually starts from 9AM and ends around 7PM, depending on the date/curriculum.

FEES, LOCATION AND SCHEDULE

Please check the following page for each course fee.

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Courses held in Japan are taught in Japanese, so if you don’t speak the language, you’d need to arrange an interpreter, which we can arrange for a fee (English-Japanese, Chinese-Japanese only). Contact us for further information.

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No. The fees cover only the tuition, textbooks, ingredients used in the course, and lunch. There are lists of nearby hotels we recommend, but students are responsible for arranging their own travel, accommodation and other necessary arrangements. Contact us for further information.

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