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50-year-old instant noodle recipe is back from the past in Japan for a limited time[Taste test]

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 30, 2026
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As Donbei celebrates its 50th anniversary, two of its original noodle recipes return.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • Donbei • food • instant noodles • instant soba • instant udon • Nissin • Noodles • SNJO • soba • taste test • udon)

Ramen restaurant in top Tokyo tourist neighborhood skips price gouging, but how does it taste?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2026

One-coin lunches still exist in Asakusa, but now to find out if it’s money well spent.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • cheap eats • cheap food • COK • food • Japan travel • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Are 500-yen noodles at Akihabara Ramen Center a great find or cheap miss?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2026

We leave this ramen joint half happy, half less than satisfied. 

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • Akihabara Ramen Center • COK • food • miso ramen • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • Tokyo restaurants)

Train station platform ramen store closes its doors on half a century of history in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 15, 2026

Sayonara to an old-school traveller’s way to eat noodles.

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• Japan
• (Adachi • Adachi Ward • COK • food • Japanese train stations • Nishiarai Ramen • Nishiarai Station • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Tokyo • train platform • train station • train stations)

Pizza Hut Japan teams up with creator of one of the country’s best kinds of ramen for ramen pizza

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 10, 2026

Yokohama ramen continues to bring differently delicious tastes together with ie-kei pizza.

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• Japan
• (awesome • crazy • food • ie-kei • ie-kei ramen • Noodles • pizza • Pizza Hut • Pizza Hut Japan • ramen • restaurants • weird • Yoshimuraya)

Is Japan’s Crab-shaped Cup Ramen Timer worth the hype?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 9, 2026

This crustacean does more than just keep time on your three-minute instant noodles.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • crab • cup noodles • cup ramen • cute • funny • gift • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese kitchen gadgets • kitchen gadgets • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • timer • weird)

Visiting Japan’s one-and-only, and only-for-a-limited-time, Dragon Ball noodle restaurant[Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 6, 2026

Marugame Seimen branch in downtown Tokyo transforms into an anime eatery with awesome artwork inside and out.

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• (anime • COK • cool • Dragon Ball • food • manga • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • restaurants • Senzu Beans • SNJO • taste test • udon)

Taste-testing Japan’s real-world Dragon Balls and Senzu Beans at Marugame Seimen

• SoraNews24
  Mar 5, 2026

The treasures of Dragon Ball come to one of Japan’s favorite noodle restaurant chains.

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• (anime • COK • cool • Dragon Ball • food • manga • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • restaurants • Senzu Beans • SNJO • taste test • udon)

Ramen for 99 yen?!? Best value-for-money noodles found at unlikely chain in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 1, 2026

Not many people know about it, but there’s a way to get ramen for just 64 cents in Japan.

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• (COK • food • Gion • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • Noodles • ramen • restaurants)

Yakuzen ramen restaurant in Tokyo is very different to a yakuza ramen restaurant

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2026

This tonkotsu ramen has medicinal benefits that can boost your energy after a long day of sightseeing.

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• (COK • food • ginseng • health • healthy food • Jimbocho • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • Tokyo • tonkotsu • tonkotsu ramen • yakuzen • yakuzen ramen)

Tokyo’s best ramen breakfast? Restaurant two minutes from Tokyo Station is a strong contender

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 14, 2026

Special morning-only ramen is a great way to start your Tokyo day.

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• Japan
• (asa ramen • asara • breakfast ramen • COK • food • Japan travel • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • stations • Tokyo Station • tourism • travel)

Is a snow day the perfect day to beat the crowds at a popular ramen restaurant? [Experiment]

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 12, 2026

Restaurant known for numbingly spicy ramen and intimidatingly long lines lures us out in the Tokyo snow.

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• (COK • cold • Kikanbo • Noodles • P.K. Sanjun • ramen • Restaurant • SNJO • snow)

Cup Noodle maker Nissin teams up with thick-broth ramen chain for instant ramen rice[Taste test]

• SoraNews24
  Feb 10, 2026

The thickness we love with the convenience we crave.

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• (COK • food • Instant Ramen • instant rice • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • rice • SNJO • Tankaippin • taste test)

Japan’s first all-matcha ramen restaurant is now open in Kyoto【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2026

Ramen Nishiki Sui has a very fitting name.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Gion • green tea • Kyoto • matcha • Noodles • ramen • restaurants)

Bear meat noodles?!? Tokyo restaurant adds a new kind of niku soba to its menu【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 19, 2026

Bears are everywhere in Japan these days – even in our noodles.

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• Japan
• (bears • COK • crazy • food • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • taste test • udon • wild game)

7-Eleven Japan’s ramen-cooking robot whipped us up a bowl of noodles【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  Dec 27, 2025

7-Eleven is trying to innovate beyond cup noodles, but does this new technology deliver the flavor ramen fans need?

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• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • COK • convenience stores • food • Japanese convenience stores • Noodles • ramen • robots • SNJO • taste test • technology)

Disillusionment at Tsukiji’s tourist-target prices led us to a great ramen restaurant in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 24, 2025

Mr. Sato bypasses the high-priced sushi that’s become the neighborhood’s new normal and finds a super-cheap, super-tasty bowl of ramen.

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• Japan
• (China travel advisory • COK • Japan travel • Mr. Sato • Noodles • overtourism • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • sushi • tourism • travel • Tsukiji • Tsukiji fish market)

Has China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning shortened queues at this Ichiran ramen restaurant in Tokyo?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2025

Shinjuku locations present a different side to the story that made international headlines.

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• Japan
• (Chinese tourists • COK • food • Ichiran • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurants • restaurants • SNJO • tonkotsu ramen • tourism • tourists • travel)

Stamina-destroying “Paralysis Noodles” are Tokyo’s newest over-the-top ramen innovation

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 8, 2025

We head to Tokyo’s Toshima Ward for a new spin on stamina-style ramen.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • stamina ramen • staminga-style ramen • taste test)

Major Japanese noodle chain is closing on Christmas Eve so workers can spend time with families

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 6, 2025

Marugame Family Night is for the Marugame families, not the customers.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas Eve • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Marugame Udon.touching • moving • Noodles • restaurants • society • touching • udon)

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