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Wear your love of ramen around your neck with a noodle towel from Japan
- Oona McGee
Mar 20, 2020 - Tweet
Because there’s nothing more refreshing than patting your face dry with a bowl of ramen.
- Japan
- (Felissimo • food • funny • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • shopping • souvenir • towels • YOU+MORE!)
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)
Robot noodle chef starts working in Tokyo train station, serves up taste of the future【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 18, 2020
Our resident noodle expert tries out the robo soba.
We visit the Paris branch of Japanese ramen chain Ippudo and eat the most unusual ramen
- Dale Roll
Mar 3, 2020
We’d meant to compare French tonkotsu with Japanese tonkotsu, but we couldn’t resist trying a brand new kind of ramen!
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- (food • france • Ikuna Kamezawa • Ippudo • Noodles • paris • ramen • restaurants • tonkotsu • vegetarian)
Soba restaurant in Japan struggles to find new employee, rewords job ad and offers flood in
- Oona McGee
Feb 21, 2020
There’s one surprising aspect of working at a 120-year-old Japanese restaurant that has everyone wanting to work there.
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- (employment • food • jobs • marketing • Noodles • Recruitment • restaurants • soba • work • work in Japan • working in Japan)
Parasite ramen challenge: Can you cook the movie’s noodle dish in just 8 minutes?【SoraKitchen】
- Shannon
Feb 16, 2020
We had to see how realistic the movie was in terms of cooking, but did we pass the test?
We try Japan’s super affordable vegan instant cup noodles!
- Shannon
Feb 13, 2020
You don’t have to take to the streets of Tokyo to get some delicious vegan noodles.
- Japan
- (COK • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • tantanmen • taste test • vegan)
The top nine stand-and-eat soba noodle restaurants in Tokyo
- Krista Rogers
Feb 11, 2020
Our resident soba expert ate at over 200 soba spots in the greater Tokyo area, and here are his top picks.
- Japan
- (cheap eats • COK • food • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • Tokyo)
One of Kyoto’s best secret ramen restaurants isn’t a restaurant at all – it’s a van!
- Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2020
This ramen chef could work anywhere, but there’s a special reason he’s kept coming back to the same place for almost 30 years.
- Japan
- (COK • food • food trucks • Kyoto • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO)
Ippudo ramen gives noodle lovers a fantastic fukubukuro lucky bag for 2020
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
Start the New Year right with this once-in-a-year gift from the world-famous ramen chain.
- Japan
- (food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro Roundup 2020 • Ippudo • lucky bag • Lucky Bag Roundup 2020 • Noodles • ramen • SNJO)
Japanese burger chain launches an explosive combo: the spicy ramen burger!
- Eli Pang
Dec 30, 2019
A fiery crossover that will sear itself into your memory and taste buds!
- Japan
- (Chiba • food • fusion food • hamburger • limited edition flavors • Lotteria • Noodles)
Man at Ichiran ramen receives frightening note from man in the next booth
- Oona McGee
Dec 26, 2019
Slid under the dividing partition, the handwritten note begins with “Don’t say anything”.
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- (crazy • Ichiran • Japanese men • Noodles • notes • ramen • scary • Toilets • Tokyo • twitter • weird)
Tokyo ramen restaurant only lets you in with a reservation, is super-expensive, totally worth it
- Casey Baseel
Nov 30, 2019
What happens when an Iron Chef contestant opens his own ramen restaurant? He creates a new kind of cuisine: ramen kaiseki.
Mega meat noodles in Tokyo: 2.6 pounds of meat, one bowl of soba, no regrets【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2019
An extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-large order.
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- (big food • COK • crazy • food • Fuji Soba • meat • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • video)
Is it OK to bite through your ramen noodles while slurping them in Japan? Internet debates
- Casey Baseel
Nov 16, 2019
Slurping is the norm in a Japanese noodle house, but is it OK to bite off your ramen if it’s more than you can chew?
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure memes are the signature seasoning at this ramen restaurant in Japan【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 9, 2019
You expected a ramen chef, but is was him, Dio!
Silky golden ramen recommended by Michelin Guide is so good, we felt like royalty eating it
- Koh Ruide
Oct 29, 2019
Only $9 for some of the best noodles in the country.
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- (delicious • K. Nagahashi • Michelin Guide • Noodles • ramen • Sapporo • SNJO • soup • yummy)
White Curry Udon: A new take on noodles discovered at a Japanese airport
- Oona McGee
Oct 18, 2019
Part curry, part noodles, part Shepherd’s Pie, this is a unique dish worth travelling for.
- Japan
- (airports • awesome • COK • curry • deals • food • Fukuoka • hakata • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • travel • udon)
Ichiran Ramen opens new premium branch in Ginza with high-class boxed noodles
- Oona McGee
Oct 17, 2019
Move over boxed bento lunches, it’s time to try boxed ramen.
Yoshinoya ramen? Yes, it now exists, and it’s awesome【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2019
There’s only one place in Japan where the beef bowl king serves these noodles.
- Japan
- (airports • beef bowls • COK • food • gyudon • Narita Airport • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • travel • Yoshinoya)
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