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Mint chocolate tapioca ramen appears in Tokyo: Too much to handle or too good to believe?
- Casey Baseel
Sep 20, 2019 - Tweet
SoraNews24 taste tests ramen like nothing we’ve ever seen before.
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- (boba • choco mint • COK • crazy • food • mint chocolate • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • sweets • tapioca • weird)
Ramen Bankara unveils their heartwarming and stomach-filling “Strong Ramen!”
- Shannon McNaught
Sep 19, 2019
For days when the traditional tonkotsu ramen just won’t cut it.
- Japan
- (Bankara • delicious • food • Japanese cuisine • ramen • Restaurant • tonkotsu ramen)
Piranha Ramen arrives in Tokyo, and we try the intimidating noodle innovation【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 16, 2019
SoraNews24 goes face-to-face with fanged fish as food.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • fish • food • Ninja Cafe & Bar Asakusa • Noodles • piranha • ramen • scary • SNJO • weird)
Acting like a literal dick is the secret to happiness, Japanese ramen restaurant says
- Casey Baseel
Sep 11, 2019
The answer has been between guys’ legs the whole time, but that doesn’t mean we should all be rude to each other.
Lobster ramen in Tokyo is amazingly good and amazingly cheap【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Sep 9, 2019
A new restaurant in Shibuya takes the flavor of Hokkaido-style ramen upmarket, but leaves the price low.
- Japan
- (awesome • COK • crazy • food • lobster • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Shibuya • SNJO • Tokyo)
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Super-spicy Tokyo ramen served in a 572-degree Fahrenheit bowl? Yep, we’ll eat that!【Taste test】
- SoraNews24
Sep 2, 2019
Our resident spice fiend puts his tongue to the test in Tokyo’s most competitive ramen neighborhood!
- Japan
- (COK • food • Go Hatori • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Sekki Ramen • spicy • Takadanobaba)
Low-carb, noodle-free ramen is still awesome, this Yokohama-style chain proves
- Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2019
All the ramen flavor you could want, without any of the noodles.
- Japan
- (carbohydrates • carbs • COK • food • ie-kei ramen • low-carb • Noodles • ramen • SNJO)
We tried “brain-flavored” zombie ramen from Hokkaido, with surprising results!
- Shannon McNaught
Aug 30, 2019
What better way to commemorate your visit to Hokkaido than with a bowl of brains?
- Japan
- (brains • COK • crazy • food • funny • gross • Hokkaido • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • weird • zombies)
Piranha Ramen is now a thing, and it’s coming to Japan for a limited time
- Oona McGee
Aug 22, 2019
Dubbed a world-first, this terrifying noodle dish is made with 100-percent piranha broth.
One of Japan’s best ramen chains is offering five free beers for every bowl of ramen you order
- Casey Baseel
Aug 21, 2019
Ramen is good, ramen and beer is doubly good, and ramen and five beers is sextuply good.
Japanese restaurant says its wonder ramen provides all the vegetables your body needs in one bowl
- Casey Baseel
Aug 14, 2019
Oh, and it has about half the carbs of regular ramen too.
- Japan
- (COK • family restaurants • food • Gusto • healthy • Noodles • ramen • SNJO • vegetables)
We try gold-topped ramen, the newest gourmet noodle treat in Tokyo and Kyoto【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 13, 2019
There’s gold on them thar noodles!
Cup Noodle’s Nissin releases ultra-nutritious instant ramen with “all nutrients your body needs”
- Casey Baseel
Aug 9, 2019
Instant ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner will take care of all your vitamin, mineral, and protein requirements, company says.
- Japan
- (cup noodles • food • health • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Nissin • nutrition • ramen)
We slurped some darn tasty noods at Japan’s top-rated ramen shop
- Evie Nyan
Jul 18, 2019
Chukasoba Shibata in Chofu, Tokyo, has the best noods in all the land, we can confirm.
All Japanese customers banned from restaurant…in Japan?!?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2019
Ramen chef has had it with rude customers from his own country, so he’s cast them out of his noodle paradise.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • Ishigakijima • Okinawa • ramen • restaurants • rude • rude customers • society • weird)
Tokyo restaurant serves tapioca bubble tea ramen – Is it crazy good, or just crazy?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 7, 2019
Japan’s boba obsession heads into the world of ramen, but is it worth eating? We find out.
- Japan
- (boba • COK • drinks • food • Menya Musashi • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNOJ • sweets • tapioca bubble • tapioca bubble tea • tapioca pearl • taste test • weird)
Ramen-covered fried chicken is coming to Japanese convenience stores, and we’re totally ready
- Casey Baseel
Jul 6, 2019
Why didn’t anyone think of this before?
- Japan
- (Baby Star • convenience stores • food • fried chicken • L Chiki • Lawson • ramen)
Pikachu ramen topping instantly makes your instant noodles twice as much fun to eat【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 4, 2019
Sure, maybe you’re too busy to cook, but there’s always time for the most famous Pokémon, right?
- Japan
- (anime • COK • cute • food • instant noodles • Instant Ramen • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokemon Center • ramen • SNO • taste test • video games)
This ramen restaurant has no name, is one of the best hidden finds in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jul 3, 2019
You know a noodle joint is good when it doesn’t even need a name to get business.
- Japan
- (COK • food • Kyoto • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • reviews • SNJO • taste test)
Beautiful idol singer leaves show business, opens delicious ramen restaurant in Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Jun 29, 2019
She used to be affiliated with AKB48, Japan’s biggest idol group, but now ramen fans are the ones singing about her amazing noodles.
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