Visitors to Japanese valley cool down with water-streamed noodles

Visitors to Japanese valley cool down with water-streamed noodles. People in Japan’s western prefecture of Okayama have beaten the sweltering heat by a unique way savoring cold noodles which flow down chutes in water. 

A restaurant in the city of Maniwa offers the summer culinary tradition called “nagashi-somen.” Customers use chopsticks to scoop up thin noodles from slides, dunk them into broth and slurp them up. The eatery, with a history of more than four decades, sits in the Yamanori Valley, a popular summer retreat. It began this year’s business on Saturday.