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Marvel x Ippudo Are you Team Captain? Or Team Stark? Let the battle begin. I was lucky enough to make it to the limited Marvel x Ippudo collaboration event with the relase of Captain America: Civil War. What does a six item, limited menu look like? How do you represent each side and all of…

さいたま新都心ラーメンフェスティバル As Ramen Adventures isn’t about my current adventures (I post two reviews a week, and the backlog is about two months), I feel bad when I go to these limited-time festivals and slurp some good bowls. I often post over at the Facebook site, but not always. And let’s face it, an event up…

大つけ麺博 Ramen festivals are popping up more and more around Japan. There used to be the Tokyo Ramen Show, and that was it. The success of this event led others to delve into the field, and I remember the early days of the Grand Tsukemen Fest back in 2009. The concept is always the same;…

ラーメン女子博 2016 Another year, another Ramen Girls Festival. If you check my post from a year ago, you can see that the organizer, Satoko Morimoto, goes all out. A lot of popular shops came, and this year was much more organized than the year before. The problems of insane, four hour lines was fixed by…

The Best 50 Restaurants (all genre, mostly washoku) in Japan. Tabelog, Japan’s most popular online restaurant listing, recently released a curated list of the 50 best in Japan. You may recall that I recently wrote about their 50 best ramen, a post that can be seen here. Well, I’m almost finished with the ramen list,…

蓮華チャンス 蓮華チャンス What do you get when you cross an Australian professional wrestler with Japanese schoolgirl cosplay? Photo used with permission from Ladybaby’s official site. Official blog here. You get Ladybeard! And what do you get when you cross Ladybeard with the newest genre of Japanese junior idol heavy metal music? Photo used with permission from Ladybaby’s…

Osaka Ramen Expo 2015 I seem to be visiting a lot of these expos lately, despite my general ambiguity to ramen events. It’s cold out, this place is a 40 minute drive from central Osaka, and ramen served in a plastic bowl tends to add a lot of meh to an otherwise good bowl. But…

Simply Ramen A Complete Course in Preparing Ramen Meals at Home The landscape of ramen cookbooks (in English) is a rather barren field. Apart from Ivan Ramen, most tend to educate on how to take a cheap, store-bought package of instant noodles and reform them into something tasty. This is all well and good, but…

Fukuoka Ramen Show My work had me in Fukuoka for a day, and it just so happened that the Fukuoka Ramen Show was happening. Score! I’m usually not so hot on these events, as the quality of the bowls is all over the place. Taking time off to visit them is hit or miss. But…