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When is miso ramen not miso ramen? When it’s the new ramen at one of Japan’s top beef bowl chains
- Casey Baseel
Jun 16, 2026 - Tweet
Sukiya serves up a unique interpretation of miso ramen.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • food • gyudon.Sukiya • miso ramen • miso soup • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tonjiru)
Heart/body-warming anime video is a beautiful love letter to family and miso soup【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 22, 2026
Based-on-true-story shows how woman and her grandmother stay close even when they’re far apart.
Nagoya’s dark-red miso has continued to capture tastebuds for generations
- Elliot Hale
Dec 31, 2025
One taste and lighter varieties may never be enough for you again.
- Japan
- (Aichi • akamiso • culture • Elliot Hale • fermented soybeans • hatcho miso • history • Ichibiki • local cuisine • local food • mamemiso • Miso • miso soup • Nagoya • Okazaki • red miso • regional food • SNO • soybean miso • Tokai • tradition • Yabaton)
Miso soup as a full meal developed as the next evolution of the traditional side dish
- Master Blaster
Jun 9, 2025
Soup is good food. It makes a good meal.
- Japan
- (Japanese food • Miso • miso soup • Misobox • Misovation • Nanohana Miso • nutrition • Yamani Miso)
Major Japanese restaurant chain gives its OK to dip sushi toppings in miso soup【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 6, 2025
Pulling the fish off your sushi and swirling it around in your miso soup would get you some harsh looks in a lot of restaurants, but apparently not at this conveyor belt sushi chain.
- Japan
- (crazy • food • Kura Sushi • Kurazauhi • miso soup • restaurants • sushi • video • weird)
Which of Japan’s big three beef bowl chains has the best tonjiru pork miso soup?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 25, 2025
Yoshinoya, Matsuya, and Sukiya battle it out with each other plus a dark horse contender as we go looking for the tastiest pork miso soup.
- Japan
- (beef bowls • COK • food • gyudon • Katsuya • Matsuya • Miso • miso soup • SNJO • Sukiya • taste test • tonjiru • Yoshinoya)
Easy yet tasty instant miso soup ball recipe will help you clear out your kitchen【SoraKitchen】
- Katie Pask
Jan 6, 2023
Simple and quick to make, these miso soup balls are not only delicious but will help get rid of any ingredients you have lying around!
- Japan
- (bonito flakes • cooking • food • instant miso soup • Japanese food • Miso • miso soup • SoraKitchen)
Government declaration that ‘miso’ made since 1950s can’t legally be called ‘miso’ sparks debate
- Katie Pask
Nov 8, 2022
The decision incensed netizens around the country, with 2chan’s founder even getting involved.
- Japan
- (2channel • Barley miso • culture • Ehime • food • government • law • Miso • miso soup • Uwajima)
Which Japanese conveyor belt sushi chain has the best aosa miso soup?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 28, 2022
We find some big differences in how the big four chains prepare this classic sushi restaurant side order.
- Japan
- (best conveyor belt sushi • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Hama Sushi • Kaitenzushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • miso soup • P.K. Sanjun • revolving sushi • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test)
Can we replace tofu with cheese in miso soup? We find out【SoraKitchen】
- Dale Roll
May 29, 2022
This is quite possibly the easiest recipe ever…but does it taste good?
- Japan
- (cheese • cooking • experiment • food • miso soup • SoraKitchen)
Bowl or chopsticks: Which one should you pick up first?
- Oona McGee
Apr 8, 2022
An introduction to the finer details of Japanese dining etiquette.
- Japan
- (bowls • chopsticks • eating • etiquette • food • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • Japanese meals • manners • Miso • miso soup • restaurants • sankaku tabe • teishoku)
Should you place miso soup on the right or the left?
- Oona McGee
Mar 10, 2022
Difference between Tokyo and Osaka kicks off a nationwide debate on Japanese miso placement etiquette.
- Japan
- (eating • etiquette • food • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • Japanese meals • Miso • miso soup • restaurants • sankaku tabe • teishoku)
Cups made of kelp from Hokkaido add a touch of umami to whatever you put inside
- Master Blaster
May 23, 2021
Kelp yourself to an extra flavorful cup of sake or soup.
- Japan
- (COK • drinkware • Hokkaido • K. Masami • kelp • kombu • miso soup • sake • seaweed • SNJO • umami • weird)
Miso soup capsule toys look good enough to eat, come with recipes to make the real thing!【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 8, 2021
Miniature models give us a big appetite for Japan’s favorite comfort food.
- Japan
- (capsule toys • COK • cooking • cool • food • food models • gacha toys • gachapon • Miso • miso soup • SNJO)
Eat like a treacherous samurai! Kyoto restaurant recreates a real-life warlord’s favorite food
- Casey Baseel
Feb 26, 2020
Genuine samurai chow served in an actual samurai home.
- Japan
- (Akechi Mitsuhide • boar • COK • food • hstory • miso soup • restaurants • samurai • SNJO • wild boar)
We visited a tempura shop that allowed customers to discard miso soup clam shells on the floor
- Koh Ruide
Feb 11, 2019
The store’s odd practice is a stark contrast to Japan’s stance on cleanliness.
We try “Japan’s best-selling miso soup” and it melts the cold in our bones
- Casey Baseel
Oct 17, 2018
A visit to the mushroom kingdom to see if 600,000 fans could possibly be wrong, and also to eat some amazing ramen.
- Japan
- (COK • curry • food • Hokkaido • Miso • miso soup • mushrooms • ramen • SNOJ • tempura • travel)
“Asking some Americans to give up guns is like asking Japanese people to give up miso soup”
- Casey Baseel
Apr 7, 2018
American-born Japanese celebrity Pakkun’s comparison doesn’t go over well, but one commenter has a better food analogy.
- Japan
- (foreigners in Japan • guns • miso soup • Pakkun • Patrick Harlan • society • violence)
Behold the most realistic miso soup novelty smartphone stand known to man
- Master Blaster
Jul 6, 2017
The modern Japanese art of fake food samples has given birth to this stand which beautifully merges the heights of both elegance and kitsch.
- Japan
- (cool • food sample • funny • miso soup • smartphone stands • Smartphones • weird)
Relax in a bath that smells like … miso soup and ramen with these bath powders from Japan!
- Kay
Nov 5, 2016
You may want to refrain from using these yummy-smelling bath powders when you’re hungry!
- Japan
- (bath powder • funny • miso soup • ramen • Village Vanguard)
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