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…
2015, A Great Year for Ramen. It’s been an amazing year for Ramen Adventures. Ramen in Tokyo is progressively getting better and better, in my opinion, and the ramen scene overseas is following suit. My goal with Ramen Adventures has been to entertain and inform. The blog format works for writing and photography. Two posts…
FYI, this post is outdated by a long shot. Tsuta has moved to a new location. You may have to just line up. There may be some kind of online reservation system. It’s always changing! So you want to slurp at Tsuta, the world’s first Michelin starred ramen shop. Well, let me break it down.…
高田馬場ラーメン女子大作戦♡ My first day back in Japan, and I was able to catch the tail-end of the Takadanobaba Girl’s Ramen Week. Five lovely ladies collaborated with five awesome shops to make their own creations. Ramen is historically a male-oriented food, but in recent years the ladies have made it hip to slurp. My timing was…
ラーメンアメリカン I spent three weeks having a little vacation from the craziness that is Japan. And though I really only wanted to eat at three ramen shops, I ended up with a few more. Some were amazing, and some were pretty bad. But in the end, I think America is starting to push ramen in…
さよなら、くるり As of September 1st, 2015, Kururi is closed. I braved the line on their last day, a line of 40 people that took about two hours, to slurp it one last time. Kururi, for me, is a very important shop. When I started this site, back in the end of 2008, the only resource…