Ramen Shop

Each moment is an ode to Singaporean and Japanese cuisine sure to leave an audience salivating.

This isn't the acme of filmmaking, but it can be fun.

A food movie that depends very heavily on personal taste.

For all of its foodie appeal, however, "Ramen Shop" is a wispily sentimental enterprise, full of perfunctory transitions, maudlin plot twists and awkward time shifts between past and present.

Ramen Shop believes that the healing power of food can satisfy our hunger for comfort in difficult times, and that should be filling enough for now.

But if you can tolerate a little saccharine piano music and ethereal backlighting with your food porn, Ramen Shop is an appetizing little bite of multicultural foodie edutainment.

A routine movie that's full of talk but thin with comprehension.

Endearingly, the film shows food can unite two strangers from across the planet but can also transcend anger and resentment and make room for love and forgiveness.

The film celebrates [director Eric Khoo's] world-class city's extraordinary food culture against the backdrop of a beautiful young chef's passionate search for his roots.

History buffs will appreciate the bitter but revelatory detours into war history and the lingering prejudices and memories it unleashes.