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Beef bowl king Yoshinoya to start serving ramen this summer with new beefy mazesoba

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 29, 2025
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It has beef and it comes in a bowl, but it’s not a beef bowl.

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• Japan
• (beef • beef bowls • food • mazesoba • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Yoshinoya)

Investigating the mysterious “Shake Pippi” at Marugame Seimen udon restaurants

• Master Blaster
  Jun 27, 2025

It’s only natural to want to shake your pippi.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • fried foods • Marugame Seimen • Marugame Shake Pippi • Noodles • Pippi • restaurants • snacks • SNJO • udon)

Does the Shirotama Maker kitchen gadget really create perfect instant ramen eggs?

• Oona McGee
  Jun 18, 2025

Cup Noodle’s Nissin creates a way to elevate your ramen, but it might be more hassle than it’s worth.

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• Japan
• (chicken ramen • cooking • cool • eggs • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • video)

Awesome tempura soba noodle breakfast makes this Tokyo hotel near Akihabara a budget travel hero

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 17, 2025

Skip the morning convenience store run and charge up for the day ahead with delicious seasonal tempura.

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• Japan
• (breakfast • COK • Dormy Inn • Dormy Inn Premium • food • hotel breakfast • hotels • Noodles • SNJO • soba • tempura • tourism • travel)

Perfect instant ramen eggs every time! Cup Noodle’s Nissin creates Shirotama Maker kitchen gadget

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 4, 2025

An easy way to make your already easy meal even more delicious.

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• Japan
• (chicken ramen • cooking • cool • eggs • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • Noodles • ramen • video)

Old soba restaurant on Japanese train station platform serves noodles with a side of nostalgia

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2025

If you’ve never tried ekisoba, now’s the time to get on board with the trend.

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• Japan
• (food • Japanese train stations • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • stand-and-eat • stations • tachigui soba • train station • train stations • trains • travel)

Udon Doughnuts boom in popularity, get a whole new look at Japanese restaurant chain

• Oona McGee
  May 23, 2025

Behold the Udonuts, with a texture like no other doughnut in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • donuts • doughnuts • food • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Mr. Sato • Noodles • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test • travel • udon • Udonatsu • Udonuts)

New Pokémon x Ippudo collaboration has Pikachu on board as ramen chef

• Oona McGee
  May 21, 2025

Exclusive goods only available at one Pokémon Center in Japan.

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• Japan
• (anime • cute • food • Fukuoka • goods • hakata • Hakata Ippudo • Hakata ramen • Ippudo • Japanese food • manga • merchandise • Noodles • Pokemon • Pokemon Center • ramen • video games)

Japanese train station noodle restaurant with 122-year history closes

• Casey Baseel
  May 17, 2025

Customers come out for one last bowl of soba at Nenoue.

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• Japan
• (food • Gifu • Nakatsugawa Station • Noodles • restaurants • soba • stand-and-eat • stations • tachigui soba)

Fukuoka’s Inaba Udon chain comes to Harajuku and we slurp up every last drop of it

• Krista Rogers
  May 2, 2025

Yup, we’d do just about anything for these noodles with a unique tempura topping.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • Fukuoka • gobo • Harajuku • Harakado • Inaba Udon • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • tempura • Tokyo • Tokyu Plaza • udon)

Japanese restaurant chain serves up super thick soba noodles in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Apr 29, 2025

One of the best places to try a very unusual type of buckwheat noodle.

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• Japan
• (budget • cheap eats • COK • food • Japanese food • Noodles • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • Shibuya • SNJO • soba • Tokyo • weird food • Yoshi Soba)

Japanese breakfast ramen for US$3.50 in Shinjuku is the morning meal you didn’t know you needed

• Oona McGee
  Apr 29, 2025

The best place to try the unique local custom of “asa-ra”.

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• Japan
• (breakfast • cheap eats • COK • food • Japanese breakfast • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurant • Restaurant • Sarusuberi • shinjuku • SNJO • soy sauce ramen • Tokyo)

New contender for the Akihabara ramen crown: Restaurant run by martial arts champ【Taste test】

• SoraNews24
  Apr 23, 2025

Mixed martial artist now adds ramen making to his skill mix at Men Zin Saito.

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• Japan
• (Akihabra • COK • food • martial arts • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test)

Noodle chain Marugame rolls out strawberry milk udon donuts for new spring sweets lineup

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 15, 2025

These sweet treats–made not from udon flour but from actual mashed udon noodles–are delightfully chewy and pack a flavorful punch.

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• Japan
• (donuts • food • Hokuto Matsumura • Kaito Takahashi • Marugame • Marugame Seimen • Noodles • strawberries • strawberry • sweets • udon • Udonatsu • Udonuts)

New tanuki soba specialty restaurant in Ikebukuro serves up soba with a unique taste and visuals

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 5, 2025

The noodles at Tanuki Soba wa Nomimono don’t look like any bowl of tanuki soba that we’ve ever seen, but we’re not complaining.

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• Japan
• (COK • dining • gourmet • Ikebukuro • nomimono • Noodles • Restaurant • SNJO • tanuki soba • Tokyo)

Pokémon Slowpoke Powdered Rice Topping tastes like liquid for noodles【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 24, 2025

Honorary Pokémon governor of Udon Prefecture has a treat that might be even tastier than his tail.

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• Japan
• (anime • Ashikaga Flower Park • COK • food • furikake • manga • Noodles • Pokemon • rice • Slowpoke • SNJO • taste test • udon • video game)

Udon soup-scented bath salts from Kagawa are flying off the shelves and into bathtubs everywhere

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 20, 2025

Be careful that you don’t start drinking your bath water by mistake or you’ll find yourself in even hotter water.

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• Japan
• (bath • bath salts • cool • crazy • food • funny • Kagawa • Noodles • sanuki udon • udon • weird)

Are Japan’s Strawberry Shortcake instant noodles as gross as they say?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 13, 2025

Yakisoba meets cake in this very weird Japan-exclusive product.

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• Japan
• (cake • COK • crazy • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Japanese food • Noodles • ramen • review • shortcake • SNJO • strawberries • strawberry shortcake • sweets • taste test • weird • yakisoba)

Black Thunder Tempura from Japanese udon chain is not a good partner for noodles

• Oona McGee
  Feb 9, 2025

Famous chocolate bar gets fried up for Valentine’s Day, but it’s not exactly as great as they say.

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • Black Thunder Tempura • chocolate • COK • food • fried chocolate • Hanamaru Udon • Noodles • review • sanuki udon • SNJO • sweets • taste test • tempura • udon • valentine's chocolate • Valentine's Day • valentine's day chocolate)

Deep-fried “Let’s just be friends” chocolate tempura appears in Japan for Valentine’s Day

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2025

Black Thunder joins forces with popular noodle restaurant chain for a treat that keeps the chocolate brand’s image of cheap and delicious.

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• Japan
• (Black Thunder • chocolate • crazy • food • fried food • Hanamaru Udon • Noodles • sweets • tempura • udon • Valentine's Day)

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