Yuuki Sakuna Opens a Simulator Ramen Shop, Then Shuts It After Fires, Critics and Gambling

INDEPENDENT — Independent streamer Yuuki Sakuna opened a ramen shop in Japanese Ramen Simulator on Sunday and closed it for good in the same stream, announcing that the shop was folding after a run of kitchen fires, poor reviews and lost bets. The session lasted more than five hours.

She started on the hardest of the difficulty settings and named the shop herself, working out how to write the kanji for noodle, “men,” before settling on a sign reading Menya Sakuna with a cat paw mark. Her first customers arrived with her handling the cooking, serving and register alone, and she ran out of soy sauce and fell behind on orders. About 39 minutes in, the stove set the kitchen on fire. She put it out and said she had thought her noodles were finished. After asking chat for suggestions, she hired a part-timer for the register and named the helper Tagosaku.

“It has been established that you must never let me run a ramen shop.” — Yuuki Sakuna, after the kitchen caught fire again

Prep and stocking kept tripping her up. Food she had bought spoiled because it had not gone into the refrigerator, and the shop’s first critic visit, near the two-hour mark, ended in a poor rating after she served soup she had not prepared. She tried a seasoning trick from a viral recipe, and later a Google review of two stars appeared. Over the afternoon the menu grew to include miso broth, gyoza, beer, crab toppings, chashu pork and a chicken-based option, and she expanded the shop and wished aloud for staff to take orders. Fires broke out repeatedly, which she called routine.

Around the four-hour mark, with her balance in the red, she tried an in-game even-or-odd dice gamble and lost. After a second critic visit she put her money on chicken miso ramen with thick noodles, gambled again and lost. Another fire started, and she said she had no talent for ramen or gambling. She then announced that the shop was closing.

Afterward she said the run had been fun and that the hard setting turned out to be manageable. She read out Super Chat messages from some of the 73 paid messages the stream drew and thanked viewers, and told them she had reached 1.09 million. She said her next stream would be on the 27th, her second debut anniversary, and that she would have announcements.