Rent-a-Noise

Life in Japan - if you're not living next to a main road, above a Pachinko parlour or near any foreign embassy which meets the displeasure of the guys with the black vans - can be remarkably serene and quite. Old China hands, used to the hustle and bustle of that nation's great cities, find this particularly unsettling, but now they can recreate that unbeatable Sino-raucousness in the comfort of their own homes thanks to this business based in Tokyo's Nishi Shinjuku neighbourhood offering a new take on the concept of "Chinese takeaway".