I've always enjoyed watching Tampopo, but it's been so long since I've seen it on TV. The story of a woman's quest to make a perfect bowl of ramen noodle soup. She's the owner of a Japanese truck stop diner. The main story is interspersed with vignets of the lives of the diner's customers.
I like the scene where a posh Tokyo Italian restaurant is trying to train its staff around the etiquette of eating spaghetti without slurping only to see some American tourists sit down and order spaghetti to eat it exactly in that manner.
The other vignette is of a mobster's dalliance in a hotel room with his mistress and a trolly of room service (live shrimp, boobs, eggs being passed back and forth.... you get the picture).
Links:
Tampopo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tampopo (1985)