PETALING JAYA, Oct. 23 -- As far as restaurant names go, Human Beings Everybody Noodles takes the cake.

It's the translated name of Jinrui Mina Menrui, one of Osaka's most popular ramen restaurants and a 2025 pick for the city's top 100 ramen shops on Tabelog.

Tabelog is widely regarded as Japan's most reliable restaurant review platform, famous for a strict, weighted scoring system under which 97 per cent of listed eateries score below 3.5 stars.

Jinrui Mina Menrui holds 3.75, if you're wondering.

Takahiro Matsumura founded the restaurant in 2012, and it built a large following on housemade wheat noodles and a clean shoyu broth of clams and chicken bones.

That success gave him the foundation to launch a slew of other concepts, inclu...