According to a Japanese newspaper, a young man entered a noodle bar in the western Japanese city of Osaka on Wednesday, ordered noodles, slurped them down, and then held the restaurant up with a knife demanding a local waitress hand over all the cash from the register.

After obtaining the loot, the robber paid the waitress for his meal and even waited long enough to receive his change before leaving. The suspect is still at large. The police have not specified whether the assailant left the waitress a generous tip.

The robber ate a large bowl of steamy "ramen" noodles and a side order of golden fried chicken before stealing 46,000 yen (US $393). When the waitress asked him if he would pay his bill, he obliged her, passing her a 1000-yen note and waiting for 100 yen in change, the Sports Nippon newspaper said.