In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles.
The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making".
Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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