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FYI, this post is outdated by a long shot.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.…
2015 Tokyo Toy Run! Every year, my motorcycle friends, many of whom join the Ramen Riders adventures, team up to do a bit of charity. Toy Runs happen all around the world, and we are happy to be doing one in Tokyo. A Toy Run is a bunch of motorcycle riders collecting toys and donations,…
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…
the RAMEN BOOK The Ramen Book is another bilingual guide to ramen in Japan, albeit a much broader guide than my own book, 最強アメリカ・ラーメン男 東京 極ウマ50店を食べる. While mine is strictly a guide to 50 shops in Tokyo, The Ramen Book brings you in slowly; sort of a ramen 101. It covers the basics, with great color…
最強アメリカ・ラーメン男 東京 極ウマ50店を食べる I’ll just let Google figure it out for you! http://www.ramenadventures.com/p/ramen-guide-book.html Yep, I wrote a book about ramen. The full name is 最強アメリカ・ラーメン男 東京 極ウマ50店を食べる. Saikyo Amerika Ramen Otoko Tokyo Goku Uma 50 Mise wo Taberu. Let’s break it down. 最強 – Saikyo pretty much means amazing. アメリカ・ラーメン男 – American ramen dude. 東京 – Tokyo.…
Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and Recipes Good advice for most ramen shop chefs, and equally good advice for authors, is to avoid reading reviews on the internet. That said, the minute I picked up Ivan’s new cookbook and memoir, I went straight to the 1-star reviews. Of course, when you see that there are only…
ラーメン女子博 Ramen and the ladies have a rough history together. In the past, ramen was considered strictly dude-food, and to see a girl in a ramen shop was quite rare. While Tokyo’s 3rd wave cafes and Italian bistros became welcoming spots for any gender, ramen shops got dirtier, stinkier, and very male-centric. But girls want…