Kitakata Ramen Ban Nai Shows That Costa Mesa is OC's Ramen Town

Costa Mesa, OC's Ramen Town, lost one a few months ago when Kohryu, one of the more beloved noodle shops whose signature was caramelized green onions in its broth, closed up. But we don't call it Ramen Town for nothing. Now a new ramen shop has...

The Los Angeles ramen aficionado has in recent years learned to differentiate shio ramen from tonkotsu ramen, miso-tinged Sapporo ramen from tangy Kitakata ramen, and fishy Tokyo-style ramen from pork-intensive Tokushima-style ramen. Now comes...

No two bowls of ramen noodle soup are alike. Even when two competing restaurants claim lineage to the exact same Japanese village known for a specific type of tonkotsu or shoyu or shio or whatever, each kitchen ultimately prides itself on its own...

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EMC Seafood and Raw Bar, the popular Koreatown seafood restaurant and oyster bar, has opened its long-awaited Irvine store. Development began last year at the space vacated by Elephant Bar. Irvine is EMC’s third restaurant and like the other EMC’s...

Ramen noodle soup comes in many forms. The ultimate ramen, for me, is made with a rich, decadent pork-bone broth loaded with so much collagen that the soup appears milky and viscous, like the ones at HiroNori, Kopan and Yoshiharu. The problem with...