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Japanese for Real at Hakata Ramen Shinsengumi
Drunk or not, this looks awesome. For too long have I been subjected to people who believe the beginning and end of Japanese food is sushi. While living in Japan for half of a year, I believe I ate...
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Spicing My Broth at Asahi Ramen
Mix one part curry noodles... For a little post-tennis victory Japanese treat, I headed to Asahi Ramen in West LA with my vanquished tennis foe to get some…ummm ramen. Now don’t be fooled by the name...
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Currying Favor at Ajisen Ramen
Curry in a hurry. Not too long ago (at least in my head), Ajisen Ramen opened its doors at the Century City food court. I’m not sure where else this Japanese ramen chain exists in the US, but I do...
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Real Ramen at Ramen Jinya
Why spinach? Sometimes nothing beats a good bowl of ramen. No, I don’t mean the Cup O Noodle that powered me through late nights in college. I mean real ramen in a real bowl, with some thick broth...
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Artsy Noodles at Tsujita LA
Artisan or artesian? Have you ever looked upon a meal and thought it was just too pretty to eat? It happens to the best of us, and to be perfectly frank, a pretty-looking meal is often disguising a...
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Japan Meets Italy at Ramen Yamadaya
My, what yellow ramen you have. Not too long ago (at least it feels that way), a new ramen place popped up in Culver City calling itself Ramen Yamadaya. It was around this time that I had been totally...
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Ramen to Stay at Santouka
Ramen with a touch of pink. Every time I go shopping at Mitsuwa, a Japanese grocery store in Mar Vista, I can’t help but notice a crazy long line in the adjacent Japanese food court. This line always...
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Tatsu to the Future
Dry bones! On a drunken evening in Osaka, I vaguely recall punching buttons on an old school lotto-style machine at a ramen restaurant. The result was some of the most delicious drunk food I have ever...
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All-Out Asian at Noodle World
That’s some white ramen. Before attending an event in Westwood, my woman and I decided to see what the college town had to offer in terms of dinner. Sure, I had eaten in Westwood many times before, but...
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Don and Ramen at Tampopo
Spicy for reals. Down in Gardena and Torrance, it’s hard to turn a corner without spotting a ramen shop. So when my coworkers and I set out for some Hakata Ramen Shinsengumi and found the line to be...
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A Bowl of Awesome at Daikokuya
It’s like the inside is outside. In all my time living in LA I had one major failure. Well maybe more than one failure, but one of them is not making a trip to Daikokuya. Fortunately, that ramen spot...
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Asian Fusion at Grit & Grace
Kinda like dim sum. While some parts of the country might have Asian fusion around every corner, Pittsburgh has (most likely for the better) avoided much of this. There is, however, a spot downtown...
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Slurping Ramen at Slurping Turtle
Can you do the tan tan? A great ramen is hard to find. Good ramen, not so much, but great not so much. So when Slurping Turtle in Chicago got so big that they decided to open up an outpost in Ann...
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A Solid Bowl at Orochon Ramen
View from the top. It’s pretty well-known that Little Tokyo is now home to some of the best restaurants in LA. One of these is better-known for their spicy ramen challenge perhaps moreso than how good...
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Betting on Black at Tamashii
So hot right now. What do you do in Pasadena when it’s 100 degrees outside? Surely not ramen in an un-air conditioned restaurant. Right? Wrong. You see, sometimes you just need ramen and sometimes that...
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All About That Skull at Ramen Tatsunoya
Perfection. Pasadena isn’t exactly known for being at the forefront of the food world. Often a restaurant finds success elsewhere in LA and decides Pasadena is a good outpost for a sequel. You could...
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Porked Up Japanese at Momofuku Noodle Bar
A ramen of many colors. In the world of ramen, Los Angeles generally dishes out some of the best in the country. Yet, New York may have produced one of the most famous. Momofuku Noodle Bar is by no...
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Tatsu to the Future
Dry bones! On a drunken evening in Osaka, I vaguely recall punching buttons on an old school lotto-style machine at a ramen restaurant. The result was some of the most delicious drunk food I have ever...
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All-Out Asian at Noodle World
That’s some white ramen. Before attending an event in Westwood, my woman and I decided to see what the college town had to offer in terms of dinner. Sure, I had eaten in Westwood many times before, but...
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Don and Ramen at Tampopo
Spicy for reals. Down in Gardena and Torrance, it’s hard to turn a corner without spotting a ramen shop. So when my coworkers and I set out for some Hakata Ramen Shinsengumi and found the line to be...
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