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…
最強アメリカ・ラーメン男 東京 極ウマ50店を食べる Brian’s Guide to 50 Great Tokyo Ramen Shops ラーメン本を作ります！ ４月１５日！ よろしくお願いします！ 内容紹介 ラーメンは外国人の間でも大ブーム。 ニューヨークに出店したラーメン店は 連日行列という人気ぶりです。 本書では、大人気のラーメンブロガー・ブライアンが選んだ 東京のラーメン50軒を紹介。 英語の原文も掲載しているので、 日本を訪れる外国人旅行者のガイドブックとしても活用できます。 〜内容〜 ●はじめに ●ブライアンのラーメン食べ歩き ●東京ラーメン店紹介 豚骨・鶏白湯ラーメン／醤油ラーメン／味噌ラーメン 塩ラーメン／つけ麺／オリジナルラーメン ●ブライアンのラーメンアドベンチャー 喜多方編 ●ブライアンのラーメンアドベンチャー 尾道編 ●ブライアンのラーメンアドベンチャー 福岡編 ●ぼくのラーメン二郎物語 ●ブライアンのラーメンアドベンチャー 千葉編 著者について 1978年、アメリカ生まれ。英語教師として働く東京で、2008年にうまいラーメンと出会い、ラーメンの食べ歩きを始める。同年、自分が食べたラーメンを紹介するブログ“Ramen Adventures”を開始、いまでは毎月10万件のアクセスを誇る。NYタイムズの取材を受けるほか、TV番組「知っとこ！」「スーパーJチャンネル」などに出演するなど、アメリカ人の日本のラーメン通としてメディアにもたびたび登場。日本中のラーメン店を1000軒以上食べ歩き、今も新しい味を求めて日々ラーメン店巡りを続けている。
ラーメン総選挙 Global ramen force Ippudo recently held their third annual ramen competition. That’s founder Kawahara-san (河原) above. Out of 176 entries, only 14 were invited to present their bowl to a jury of ramen professionals. I was honored to be invited as a judge, and though I approach ramen in general as fun food, I…
Happy 2015 from Tokyo. It has been another great year of ramen slurping and spreading the ramen love worldwide. Ramen Adventures has been in the media quite a bit, and locally my food tours and ramen school have been doing great as well. There are a few things in the works that I will hopefully…