Category: Food

Game publisher Namco plans to open a ramen theme park in Nagoya next year. Today, Namco announced plans to open a ramen noodle theme park in the southern Japanese city of Nagoya. The “Nagoya Noodle Shop Alley,” due to open for business on February 25, is meant to introduce visitors to the history of ramen…

A reader sends in a link to an article from the NEW YORK TIMES about ramen shops in Manhattan. “Ramen?” you ask. “That plastic-wrapped block of dry noodles and powdered soup?” But freshly made ramen is another thing altogether. In Japanese ramenyas (ramen shops) a bowl of ramen holds a house-made soup, springy noodles, the…

Ramen enters the internet age. Yahoo Japan Corp said Thursday it will start selling across the country later this month “ramen” noodle soup it has developed on the basis of the results of a popularity contest conducted via the Internet. The product, dubbed “Samurai Ramen,” features soup made from scorched “miso” fermented soy bean paste…