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We take up Thai restaurant’s challenge to eat a 6.5-kilo serving of ramen noodles and coriander

Oona McGee
May 15, 2016
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Customers who finish everything, including the two-kilo topping of coriander, are rewarded with all-you-can-eat coriander for life.

Food & Drink, Japan, SE Asia
(coriander • food challenge • Mr. Sato • Noodles • ramen • review • Thai • tom yum)

Want more meat on your ramen? This restaurant has got you covered

KK Miller
May 13, 2016

This Hokkaido ramen joint’s chashu is extremely tasty, so it’s a good thing they give you a ton of it.

Food & Drink, Japan
(chashu • food • Hokkaido • meat • Noodles • ramen • restaurants)

New Twitter trend: High school girls posing in noodle restaurants

Anime News Network
Apr 18, 2016

The Japanese noodle restaurant chain Marugame Seimen, which specializes in udon (thick wheat noodles), has started a social media marketing campaign targeted at high school-age girls, JK Udon Kawaii (“High School Girls Udon Cute”).

Culture, Cute, Japan
(high school • Japanese trend • Kawaii • Noodles • pose)

Sakura season comes to the kitchen with cherry blossom-shaped pasta

Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2016

Spruce up your spaghetti, sakura-style.

Food & Drink, Japan
(cherry blossoms • cooking • cool • food • Noodles • pasta • sakura)

La vie en ramen: our Japanese reporter slurps salty noodle soup in Paris

Evie Nyan
Mar 19, 2016

Our Japanese reporter eats Japanese ramen in a noodle bar in Paris – but how does it compare to his own country’s salty fare?

Europe, Food & Drink, Japan
(france • Japanese cuisine • Noodles • paris • ramen)

Want some carbs with your carbs? Japanese noodle restaurant offering bread soba

Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2016

Yakisoba bread is pretty common at Japanese bakeries, but this is the first time we’ve ever heard of bread soba.

Food & Drink, Japan
(bakeries • bread • food • Noodles • restaurants • soba • weird)

Noodle stall in Thailand is dishing out some mighty fine treats for your eyes and your taste buds

KK Miller
Mar 12, 2016

We’ll take whatever this guy is serving.

Food & Drink, SE Asia
(hot men • Noodles • Restaurant • Thailand • tom yum)

Love Street Fighter and ramen? Then you’ll want to head to Shinjuku Station tonight or tomorrow!

Preston Phro
Feb 12, 2016

Looking for a free meal? Then stop by Shinjuku Station and try some Hadoken ramen!

Japan
(events • food • free food • Noodles • ramen • Street Fighter • Street Fighter V • video games)

Boston clam chowder-flavored instant ramen docks in Japan

Casey Baseel
Feb 9, 2016

The Pacific Rim meets the Atlantic seaboard in Japan’s newest flavor of instant ramen.

Japan
(clam chowder • cup noodles • food • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen)

Did you know your electric kettle is also an instant noodle-maker?

Casey Baseel
Jan 30, 2016

Cooking udon, or any other kind of fresh pasta, just got a whole lot easier.

Japan
(cooking • cool • electric kettle • kettle • Noodles • T-fal • udon)

Chocolate ramen? Not only will we try that, we’ll be first in line! 【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Jan 28, 2016

Is Tokyo restaurant’s new menu item a culinary dream come true, or do two rights make a wrong?

Japan
(chocolate • food • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Tokyo • weird)

Express your love this Valentine’s season…with udon noodles topped with a humongous heart!

Kay
Jan 26, 2016

Your significant other not big on sweets? Then these udon noodles filled with a lot of “heart” may be the perfect treat this Valentine’s Day!

Japan
(heart • Noodles • Osawaya • udon • Valentine's Day)

We try new yakisoba noodles with chocolate sauce (Spoiler: it’s awful)

Mike
Jan 21, 2016

Food manufacturer Myojo recently released a special version of their popular Ippei-chan instant yakisoba noodles that includes a chocolate sauce topping. We tried it… so you don’t have to.

Japan
(food • Noodles • ramen • taste test • weird • weird food • yakisoba)

Saga Prefecture’s hidden gem of a soba restaurant offers scrumptious, full course soba meals

Krista Rogers
Jan 21, 2016

A soba restaurant tucked away in the mountains of Saga Prefecture is known for every one of its menu items making use of the soba (buckwheat) plant.

Japan
(food • Noodles • restaurants • saga • soba)

Brace yourself – Chocolate-flavored instant noodles are coming to Japan!

Casey Baseel
Dec 22, 2015

Apparently sliced chocolate was only the beginning.

Japan
(awesome • chocolate • food • instant noodles • Noodles • sweets • weird • yakisoba)

Subliminal messages, coming soon to a bowl of Japanese noodles near you?

Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2015

Japanese Twitter user finds his udon has something to say to him.

Japan
(baseball • cool • food • kishimen • Nagoya • Noodles • subliminal messages • udon)

Artist Rumiko Takahashi’s popular characters Ranma and Lum have now become… instant ramen!

Kay
Dec 4, 2015

Fans of manga artist Rumiko Takahashi will be happy to know that a slightly unexpected new product featuring her work will soon be hitting stores—instant ramen!

Japan
(anime • Instant Ramen • manga • Noodles • Ranma 1/2 • Rumiko Takahashi • Urusei Yatsura)

Denny’s is turning Japanese with its new location, offering rice, noodles, tempura and more

Meg Murphy
Nov 26, 2015

While there is nothing “American diner” about Denny’s in Japan, the well-known family restaurant chain is going all-out Japanese with its new location in Tochigi Prefecture.

Japan
(Denny's • food • Japan • Japanese food • menu • Noodles • restaurants • washoku)

Japanese stir-fried noodles a huge hit in Kenya

Aleisha Riboldi
Oct 21, 2015

Yaki udon, a Japanese stir-fried noodle dish made with thick, flat wheat noodles, is a popular and much-loved staple of Japanese cuisine. Both yaki udon and yakisoba—a similar dish which uses a thinner buckwheat noodle instead—are cheap, tasty, and readily available from many street food stalls and Japanese-style pubs). So when one of our RocketNews24 Japan reporters read that not only had a yaki udon restaurant opened up in Kenya, but that it was that it was a huge hit with the locals, he just had to check it out for himself.

Read on for our Japanese reporter’s restaurant review as he travels halfway across the world for a bowl of noodles.

Africa
(Africa • fast food • Kenya • Noodles • teriyaki • yaki udon • yakisoba)

Beat the heat with Japanese somen noodles dipped in Starbucks noodle sauce?!

Jamie Koide
Jul 2, 2015

For many Japanese, somen is the go to food of choice for keeping the summer heat exhaustion blues away. These thin, white Japanese noodles that resemble vermicelli are traditionally made from wheat flour and served chilled.

But what do you do if a somen craving hits and you don’t have a full serving of mentsuyu, or noodle dipping sauce, on hand to eat them with? What if you’re tired or eating somen the traditional way? Or what if you’re in need of a little caffeine kick with your meal?

If you answered mix your noodle sauce with Starbucks coffee, congratulations! We’re stumped as to how our Japanese staff arrived at this weird food combination, but apparently it tastes much better than it sounds.