Dandelion

There have been a few movies that revolve around food as their main theme. The most recent one I can remember is the german film Mostly Martha.

Well, thanks to Netflix I saw a Japanese film whose focus was noodles.

Tampopo
If you read the title phonetically, that is how you pronounce dandelion in Japanese. Interesting fact. This was a funny film in search of the perfect bowl of noodles. The characters go through many a recipe to get the 'perfect' noodles and after many trials accomplish their objective.

You can see how food plays different roles for different people. It can communicate love. Sadness. There was the view of food and sensuality, that was interesting because I happen to think of Japanese as very reserved people. Of course, my assumption is just that...an assumption. Isn't the porn industry huge there?

All I can say is I was ready to go have lunch at a Japanese place as soon as I was done watching this movie.