Two New Ramen Joints Join Costa Mesa’s Ramen Ranks

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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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...

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...

I’ll never understand why laksa hasn’t become more popular than it is. Laksa is Southeast Asia’s answer to Japan’s ramen or Vietnam’s pho. A hallmark of Peranakan cuisine, it is wildly popular throughout Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Uncle...

If you’re one of those people, like someone I know, who feels the need to customize your ramen down to the last minutiae, you can do that at Kopan Ramen. They’ve got more than enough optional ingredients, spice levels and sizes to satisfy even the...