It is all too easy to overlook Hanabi. Every day streams of visitors walk past this unprepossessing noodle joint without giving it a second look as they hike between the center of Kamakura and the Hase area and its famous Great Buddha. That's their ...
Japanese ramen shops are thriving in Malaysia, where locals are embracing the noodle dish with gusto. Famous Japanese ramen brands have been entering the Malaysian market one after another in recent years following the entry of sushi and shabu shabu hot pot restaurant chains in ...
Ramen is no longer just ramen. Japan's favorite noodle is changing in front of our eyes, evolving into new forms that have little in common with the classic soul-food bowls of the past. Some bemoan this as the end of an era. Others call it ...
Popular Japanese noodle restaurant chain Ippudo is making its debut in Myanmar, opening a branch in Yangon's new Junction City Shopping Mall. Chikaranomoto Holdings Co., the Fukuoka-based operator of the ramen restaurant chain, opened its first outlet on Tuesday ahead of a grand opening in ...
Within about four hours, the Ramen Nagi restaurant had sold out of the 100 bowls of "insect tsukemen" noodles it had prepared for Sunday's single-day event. The noodles were topped with about a dozen small crickets and mealworms, which customers then dipped into soups flavored ...
The ticket machine at the door to Hayashi looks more like a Zen riddle than a method of ordering noodles. The columns and rows of buttons stand empty and blank, mocking all illusion of choice: egg or no egg; standard or extra grilled pork (options ...
The house special at Bokkoshi is a little confusing — but, that's a good thing. Called Niwatorisayu, this version of chicken-based ramen is served in a tall, deep black bowl and looks extremely creamy. In fact, the broth looks so creamy that it could ...
A theme park featuring seven popular Japanese ramen restaurants opened at Joy City shopping mall in Shanghai on Monday. The restaurants, selected from such regions as Hokkaido and Fukuoka prefectures, will offer local ramen to Shanghai residents. According to mobile game operator Klab Inc., which runs ...
Nissin Food Products Co. said it will establish a plant to manufacture instant noodle products in Shiga Prefecture, the firm's first new factory in two decades. The ¥57.5 billion plant in the city of Ritto will be completed in December 2019, the company said Wednesday. ...
A smartphone app developed by a ramen lover has proven a hit among fellow noodle enthusiasts, providing them with insight into the most popular bowls being slurped across Japan. Sapporo-based software developer Toru Domon says he also wants to help foreign visitors who come to ...
If eating noodles first thing in the morning doesn’t wake you up, the sound of other diners slurping certainly will. Soba buckwheat noodles and udon (chunky white wheat noodles) date back to the Nara (710-794) and Heian (794-1185) periods; ramen was introduced from China ...
A ramen noodle restaurant in the city of Shizuoka accidentally served a bowl of ramen that contained an object, believed to be a fingertip, a local public health center revealed Thursday. A female part-time worker at one of eateries of the Korakuen chain is thought ...
