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Watch the noodles being hand-rolled at Teinei. That’s what gives this South Lake Union store’s ramen the edge. Owner Minoru Ido had the foresight to bring a noodle-making machine from Japan so that the restaurant could offer high-quality noodles on a consistent basis. Noodles can be fickle, changing with the humidity, and some flour can soak up water while other types don’t. By making...
Santouka began in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. It came to Bellevue about four years ago, and now operates a store in University Village. The ramen is straightforward and delicious. The tonkotsu soup is made from pork bones simmered for about 20 hours, giving the broth a rich depth. Special donburi bowls that are smaller than average ramen bowls help keep your soup warm longer, and the...
Ready for a little ramen adventure? Yoroshiku in Wallingford is all about originality, and its ramen selections are no exception. The house favorite, Fisherman Ramen, is topped high with local clams, octopus, salmon and scallops, all soaking in a delicious miso broth. Its Wagyu Ramen features medium-rare Japanese beef in a shoyu soup. Another offbeat but delicious offering is the Umami Dashi Ramen, the...
We bet most of you are familiar with Japanese ramen, but how about Japanese curry? During the British colonial period in India, Crosse & Blackwell (known as C&B) blended spices used in Indian cuisine and started to sell curry powder. That powder was exported to Japan, where makers added a few extra ingredients to make the taste go better with white rice. The Japanese...
Let’s face it – we are staying home long enough. The longer we stay home, the more we eat. Eating all day while shelter-in-place is becoming a huge problem in Japan, too. In the midst of this overeating trend, ACECOOK, a major Japanese instant noodles company, released a brand new, much talked about “instant noodles without noodles.” “Wakame Ramen” series is one of the...
A Unique Ramen Shop Attracts Harvard Business School The management method of “Yume Wo Katare,” a ramen shop, in Boston currently draws much attention. Tsuyoshi Nishioka opened the unique ramen restaurant in 2012. Yume Wo Katare offers the Jiro-style ramen which is known for having many die-hard ramen fans in Japan. Typically, the serving size of the Jiro-style ramen is quite big; the ramen...
In a cold city like Sapporo, there is nothing better than a steaming bowl of ramen to warm you up. Sapporo is the birthplace of miso ramen. This ramen uses traditional Japanese miso for the broth (see more details on how this came to be at our website QAZJapan.com). Juntaku is a local favorite for miso ramen. All of its ingredients are locally sourced,...
How many of you lived off instant ramen during your college days? It’s cheap, tasty, and takes just a few minutes to cook—a perfect match for the broke, hungry, and harried college student. The world’s first package of instant noodles, Chicken Ramen, was invented in Osaka by Mr. Momofuku Ando in 1958. Following the first invention, he released the globally popular CUPNOODLES in the...
It wasn’t long ago – five years, maybe? – that the word on the streets of Seattle was that to find really good ramen, you needed to head north on I-5 and keep going until you reached Vancouver. Those days are long gone, thank goodness. Seattle is a veritable treasure trove of ramen choices these days. You can find Kyoto ramen, Hokkaido ramen, Kyushu...
