Japan's Noodle Slurping Noises Disturb Tourists, It Seems
kotaku.com | May 7, 2019
...now concern over “noodle harassment.”
Or in Japanese, nuuhara (ヌーハラ、which is short for “nuudoru harasumento”). The word came to a wide audience in fall 2016 when Japanese morning show Tokudane! (via Matome Naver) did a noodle harassment segment..
...noodle slurping apparently sounds like a toilet flushing.
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