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Welcome New York Times readers! Nope, that’s not me in the above photo, but none other than the Frugal Traveler, Matt Gross. Matt emailed me sometime last year about lending him a hand with an article he was writing, and I jumped at the chance. If there’s one thing I love as much as eating…

The 海老名 (Ebina) expressway rest area, or any expressway rest area for that matter, will be overflowing with boxes of omiyage for you to take home. Giving a gift from your recent trip is standard custom in Japan. Why not make it a cook-at-home box of ramen from a top shop in Tokyo? Sorry, no…

I didn’t actually eat 5 bowls. I guess I ate 3.5 bowls. Still it was a lot. Ikaruga was first up. No, this isn’t a normal day of ramen eating for me. A bowl at Gogyo was next. Actually, I was touring someone around to some top Tokyo ramen shops. The ramen at Nagi in…

May all your ramen dreams come true.

大つけ麺博 A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had been given the chance to help out at a tsukemen festival near Hibiya park. Ivan Orkin, owner of Ivan Ramen, gave me, Nate, and Keizo this opportunity. We were happy to accept. Not just happy, ecstatic. This could be my biggest ramen adventure to date!…

A relevant shot of a bowl of Shoyu ramen from Ivan Ramen. The big news in the ramen blogging world is Keizo’s impending return adventure to Japan. He’ll be employed at none other than top ramen shop Ivan Ramen. Talk abut living the ramen dream! Not to steal his thunder or anything, but I’ll be…

The next few posts will be from Hokkaido, where I spent the entire month of August, touring around on my motorcycle, camping, and working on a dairy farm. Hit up my other site for that nonsense. But first, a couple bowls I didn’t eat. Maguro (tuna) ramen. It’s just got some vacuum packed tuna thrown…