Ramen and Computational Complexity

Broth, noodles and toppings. Three basic components giving rise to countless variations. I suppose part of my love for ramen is the combinatorial, computational aspect of it - the generation of complexity from such a simple framework. 

I know that I don't have enough time to even get a representative cross section of all the ramen in Japan. Not even a sample of a sample, even if I eat the stuff everyday. So instead I'm going for instances of the most well-known variations. I'm going after Weberian ideal types: the legitimate renditions of  shio, shoyu, tonkotsu, tsukemen, and miso.