Kukai, Narita Airport
I had some business to take care of, so I made a quick trip to Japan. Since I had already been in May, this time I flew with a low-cost carrier. There are a few restrictions, but it really is cheap. At this pr…
I had some business to take care of, so I made a quick trip to Japan. Since I had already been in May, this time I flew with a low-cost carrier. There are a few restrictions, but it really is cheap. At this pr…
Hyottoko, in the basement of the Ginza Kotsu Kaikan building, serves some of the best shio ramen in Tokyo. I happened to have some shopping to do in Ginza, and with an awkward gap in my schedule I stopped in f…
I had a lunch appointment in Hamamatsucho, so I got a meal in while I was there. The lunch-service onigiri Living in Japan, you end up eating a lot of carbs. Korea has plenty too, but Japan seems to have ev…
Somehow I ended up going to Hawaii. I was flying out of Narita Airport on a night flight, which meant dinner had to happen at Narita. To be honest, Narita Airport is pretty dated and there really are not any r…
Fujimaru’s ramen is seriously addictive; once you have had it and liked it, you end up going back again and again. A few of my Japanese friends are addicts, so off we went. Fujimaru ramen This is the …
Dinner had been a bit skimpy, so I stopped by a tanmen shop in Kinshicho for a late-night bowl on the way home. Tanmen is a light shio ramen loaded with vegetables. The front entrance It was late at night, …
Sharin, the tsukemen shop attached to Ueno Station, is a place I had passed by and noticed a few times before, but it was only recently that I found out it is a sister shop of Rokurinsha. Once I knew that, I c…
Every now and then I get a craving for spicy tantanmen. It must be that nutty, spicy broth. I doubt you can find much soup in this style back in Korea. Tantanmen A standard tantanmen. Today I also ordered k…
I went back to Matador, the famous gyukotsu (beef bone) ramen shop. This time I noticed they had opened a miso ramen shop as well, and I was curious what it would taste like. But I was after the shoyu, so I li…
There is a ramen shop in Akihabara that always has a line, and it had been on my mind, so I finally went. The place is called Motenashi Kuroki. The sign The owner was apparently a French chef originally. Th…
Ramen Nagi has long been famous as a niboshi-style (dried sardine broth) ramen shop, but I rarely had a reason to go to Shinjuku Golden Gai, so I only just got around to it. Golden Gai is also the setting of t…
A Kitakata ramen shop has opened on the road from Tawaramachi to Inaricho. Kitakata ramen is known for its clean broth, so I was curious what kind of place it was and went to check it out. Kitakata ramen, sho…