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Cappuccino Ramen becomes super popular in Japan, but is it worth the hype?
- Oona McGee
Mar 29, 2024 - Tweet
An “only in Japan” type of meal is going viral on social media.
- Japan
- (chashu • COK • crazy • food • meat • Menya Musashi • Noodles • pork • ramen • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tsukemen • weird)
Japan’s craziest ramen? Famous noodle chain in Tokyo takes things to extreme levels
- Oona McGee
Mar 8, 2024
You won’t find ramen like this anywhere else.
- Japan
- (chashu • COK • crazy • food • meat • Menya Musashi • Noodles • pork • ramen • restaurants • review • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • tsukemen • weird)
Fried mochi ice cream ramen makes us rethink the way we eat noodles
- Oona McGee
Feb 22, 2024
Menya Musashi’s crazy new take on ramen actually makes it taste like a different famous dish.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • Lotte • Menya Musashi • mochi • mochi ice cream • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird • Yukimi Daifuku)
Fried mochi ice cream ramen appears in Japan to simultaneously hit three comfort food bullseyes
- Casey Baseel
Feb 20, 2024
Ramen restaurant owner’s year-long dream becomes a reality.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • food • Lotte • Menya Musashi • mochi • mochi ice cream • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • sweets • weird • Yukimi Daifuku)
Menya Musashi adds ice cream to curry ramen to make the perfect summer dish
- Katie Pask
Jul 30, 2022
For those days where you can’t decide if you want to eat curry, ice cream or ramen, why not just have all three at once?
- Japan
- (COK • Coolish • crazy • curry • food • ice cream • Lotte • Menya Musashi • ramen • restaurants • weird)
Ramen chain Menya Musashi teams up with Lotte chocolate for unique Valentine’s Day dish
- Dale Roll
Feb 10, 2022
A mazesoba-inspired menu item full of hints of chocolate and pungent spices!
- Japan
- (Akihabara • chocolate • COK • food • Kanda • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • sweets • tasty • Valentine's Day)
Tokyo police stopped us for random questioning, so we asked them to recommend a good restaurant
- Casey Baseel
Feb 25, 2021
They wanted to know what we were doing in Ueno. We wanted to know where to eat lunch.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Menya Musashi • Mr. Sato • Noodles • police • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • Ueno)
Tokyo’s new chocolate ramen smothers us with attentive affection for Valentine’s Day【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 12, 2021
Chocolate and matcha green tea aren’t even half of the surprises here.
- Japan
- (COK • cool • crazy • food • Lotte • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • sweets • taste test • Valentine's Day • weird)
Menya Musashi’s shaved ice ramen is the perfect dish to beat the Tokyo summer heat【Taste Test】
- Kay
Aug 25, 2020
Because ramen doesn’t always have to be steaming hot.
- Japan
- (COK • fun foods • Menya Musashi • ramen • Roppongi • shaved ice • SNO • summer)
Pizza Hut creates Putting our Soul into Every Bite Ramen Pizza with famous Japanese ramen chain
- Casey Baseel
Jun 24, 2020
Bizarrely tempting pie isn’t for Japan, though.
Japanese ramen restaurant chain brings out noodles with cola dipping sauce for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Mar 20, 2020
Why drink cola with your noodles when you can eat it instead?
- Japan
- (Cola • food • Iyoshi Cola • Japanese food • limited edition • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • Shibuya • Tokyo • tsukemen)
Tokyo restaurant serves tapioca bubble tea ramen – Is it crazy good, or just crazy?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 7, 2019
Japan’s boba obsession heads into the world of ramen, but is it worth eating? We find out.
- Japan
- (boba • COK • drinks • food • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNOJ • sweets • tapioca bubble • tapioca bubble tea • tapioca pearl • taste test • weird)
Celebrate Valentine’s with Menya Musashi’s truffle-infused chocolate ramen【SoraNews24 Taste Test】
- Kay
Feb 6, 2018
Tokyo ramen chain Menya Musashi’s chocolate ramen is back for Valentine’s, this time with roast duck and truffles for a savory and sweet noodle experience!
Chocolate ramen is back again at Tokyo restaurants for Valentine’s Day 2017, and we’ve tried it
- Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2017
Limited-time tsukemen-style ramen lets you enjoy chocolate three different ways.
- Japan
- (chocolate • food • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • shinjuku • sweets • Tokyo • Valentine's Day)
Ramen with strawberry sauce and white chocolate in Tokyo? Oh, yes, please! 【Taste test】
- Kay
Mar 17, 2016
We try Tokyo ramen chain Menya Mushashi’s latest mix of ramen and dessert.
- Food & Drink, Japan
- (food • Menya Musashi • ramen • restaurants • strawberries • sweets • Tokyo • white chocolate)
Since chocolate ramen was so good, we went back for … strawberry ramen! 【Taste Test】
- Kay
Mar 12, 2015
Readers who saw our story about the chocolate ramen we tried last month were probably able to tell that we were quite impressed with the unusual noodle creation. So when we heard that the very same ramen shop Menya Musashi had come out with yet another singular ramen dish, you can bet our interest was piqued. This time, the ramen involved fruit — yes, we were ready to make another visit to their shop in Shinjuku to try their … strawberry ramen!
But do berries and ramen mix well? We were about to find out!
- Japan
- (Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • strawberry ramen)
What’s next after green tea ramen? Why, chocolate ramen, of course! 【Taste Test】
- Kay
Feb 13, 2015
Ramen, understandably, is one of the Japanese foods that foreign visitors (and locals too, for that matter) find hugely appealing, and there’s certainly no shortage of ramen shops or unique ramen flavors to be tried in Japan. Now, you may recall that back in November last year, we brought you news of the very interesting matcha green tea ramen from Menya Musashi. Well, this month, it looked like it was time to make a repeat visit to Menya Musashi, to have some… chocolate ramen!
Yes, it’s Valentine’s Day week and everything is chocolate themed in Japan at the moment, so why not ramen too, right? We definitely weren’t about to miss this dish that combined two of our favorite foods!
Green tea ramen? Of course we had to give it a try!【Taste Test】
- Kay
Nov 21, 2014
There’s no denying that we love our ramen here in Japan. The dish is so well-loved, in fact, that it can be called one of the national comfort foods of Japan, and one of the factors that make ramen so intriguing is the fact that there are so many variations of it across Japan, from the miso-based ramen of Hokkaido in the north to the pork-stock based tonkotsu ramen of Kyushu in the south.
Surrounded as we are by all the different ramens served at countless shops throughout the country, it’s rare that we see a ramen that surprises us with its originality, but when we heard about a ramen with a soup containing stock made from green tea — and expensive gyokuro tea at that — we have to say we were positively fascinated, and we knew we had to try it ourselves. Green tea ramen, here we come!
- Japan
- (green tea • gyokuro • Menya Musashi • ramen)
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