Haruchan Ramen in Ginza
Haruchan Ramen in Shinbashi got popular, picked up a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and then opened a branch in Ginza. Going to the Shinbashi shop means queuing, and it didn’t fit my route that day either, so I …
Haruchan Ramen in Shinbashi got popular, picked up a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and then opened a branch in Ginza. Going to the Shinbashi shop means queuing, and it didn’t fit my route that day either, so I …
When people talk about Hachioji, they talk about Hachioji ramen. It is shoyu ramen with a mountain of finely chopped onion piled on top. This time I stopped by Shoushou, said to be the most popular of the lot….
I go to Tatsunoko Ramen regularly. It’s just too good, that’s the thing.. A plate of gyoza Solid, no complaints. Moyashi ramen Japanese Chinese-style ramen stir-fries the vegetables in a wok, so …
Nasusoba Murata is a place that serves nasusoba, the local ramen of Shimizu. It is a ramen with eggplant piled on top. It is so famous that there was no way I could skip it. A place like this The queue was pr…
For some reason I can’t quite explain, the Shimizu area of Shizuoka is famous for its local ramen. Of all of them I went to Ichigen Honten, known for its toki-miso ramen, where you dissolve the miso your…
A ramen shop called Yumeno Ippo has opened on the spot where a mapo ramen place I used to love had closed down. Yumeno Ippo (“one step toward the dream”) is the sister shop of a ramen place called …
Nakaya is a place I dropped by once before and promised myself I’d come back to properly. The place The kitchen The table Simple. Water There’s ice frozen right inside the pitcher, which is a n…
Another local ramen shop this time. Among Hamamatsu’s local ramen there is a style called ninja-style ramen, or Enshu Black, and Ichirin is one of the shops that represents it. The place It’s a fa…
Ramen Takeru specialises in Vietcong ramen, a local ramen. The name is a fun story: it was apparently coined back in the Vietnam War era, the idea being a ramen that fires you up like a Viet Cong fighter, and …
Asakusaken Bunten is a seriously good ramen shop, but the line is always long. The table Water Ramen A very standard shoyu (soy sauce) ramen, and it is exactly because it tastes this good that the line gets…
There is a well-reviewed tsukemen specialist near Hamamatsu Station — ramen where the noodles come separately and you dip them in the broth — so I went along. The place You can really feel the history. The ud…
Search for ramen shops in Hamamatsu and the one that comes up top is Ramen Oekaki. It sits way out of the way, though, so I never made it there until this time. Riding the train.. It’s a long ride. The …