Friends In Ramen

Despite the fact that I had a filling bowl of tsukemen earlier in the day , I found myself in Osaka at night and hungry. It was pretty late,...

As a continuation of cherry blossom season, I took an all-too-rare visit to Kyoto to go to another hanami event. With an opportunity like t...

Spring is the time for cherry blossoms. Everyone in Japan loosens up, grabs some beer or umeshu at a convenience store, and brings it to the...

Kitashinchi is an interesting area of Osaka. Like Fukushima and Tenma , it's right next to Umeda, but has a lot more character. Kitashi...

Time for another famous Osaka institution. Sodaisho, which is actually a sister shop to beloved Shiogensui , is a salty shoyu shop near Tenj...

One of the oft-talked about ramen shops in Osaka is Mitsuboshi Seimenjo, a rare gyokai shoyu ramen in Fukushima. I visited there a while ago...

My trip to Nagasaki had sadly come to an end , so it was back to trying local ramen joints in Osaka. One small place not too far from where ...