和歌山市 I’ve been to Wakayama a few times. I work there on occasion, and the city is a gateway to the Kii Peninsula, an amazing place for motorcycle touring. My ramen adventures, though, have been lacking. I visited the famous Ide Shoten before, as well as the shop that is constantly in the top 3…
Ramen Riders in Tottori Prefecture What is Ramen Riders? Well, I started a project this year to visit all 47 prefectures in Japan by motorcycle, eat some of the best ramen, and document it with videos for my YouTube channel. Simple enough, and I’ve done 14 or 15 prefectures since May. I just haven’t actually…
新横浜ラーメン博物館 Have you been to the Ramen Museum in Yokohama? If you have traveled to Japan and have an interest in ramen, you most likely have. Attendance is up in a major way over the last few years, evident by the tour buses that line up outside (pro tip, show up when they open to…
最強ラーメンFes. Thanks for subscribing to my YouTube channel! Anyways, the Grand Tsukemen Fest is now the Grand Ramen Fest, I suppose. A bowl of garlic-spiked tonkotsu ramen by any other name would be just as sweet. This time, the festival was over six weeks. Each week has ten shops. That’s 60 bowls to try! Not…
ラーメンJAPAN in びんGO Another week, another random, middle-of-nowhere ramen festival! Actually, I generally avoid these events, unless people personally invite me and it won’t take much time out of my day. This one, in a town you’ve probably never heard of, Bingo-Honjo, satisfied neither of those criteria. But it was held in an event hall,…
The Best Ramen in Japan 2016 I had the chance to travel a bit in 2016, and slurped quite a few stellar bowls. This is in no way a comprehensive best-of list, but rather my personal best-of 2016 from the far reaches of this country. Chronologically-slurped order. Clicking the names will take you to the…
The Best Ramen in Tokyo of 2016 These 14 shops are the definitive, best-of-the-best ramen shops in Tokyo in 2016. Of course, I’m not being serious. The above was a one-day New Years pop up from Nishio that you will never be able to try, though they will probably have another one in January 2017.…
東京ラーメンショー2016 I didn’t even plan on attending the 2016 Tokyo Ramen show this time around. I was busy with other things, and had just finished with the Grand Tsukemen Festival, where I had 38 of the 40 available bowls. I was festivalled-out! But then the usual suspects, the raota, the ramen nerds, told me to…
大つけ麺博 I’m not going to review each shop, as the event is long over by the time you are reading this. Just know that these ramen events are madness, and the quality is very high these days. I made videos each week, check em out! Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 A big…
蔦 と 鳴龍 Congratulations to the two ramen shops that received Michelin stars for 2017. Above is Nakiryu, which came out of nowhere. Fantastic shop, and looking back on my review, somewhere that is deserving, but I don’t think any of the Tokyo-based ramen nerds expected that. The fact that Nakiryu and Tsuta are both just a…