TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A Japanese restaurateur has turned the nation's everyday comfort food, ramen or noodle soup, into a pricey, gourmet affair that costs more than $100 and takes three days to ...

Tokyo — Japan's ubiquitous ramen shops have long served that most-proletarian of dishes at no-frills counters, where customers unceremoniously slurp and gulp their way through boiling-hot bowls of ...

Cup noodles in Japan are going up market to cash in on a craze for gourmet Ramen, the soup with noodles that has its roots in China but is now prepared in an unquestionably Japanese style. Instant ...

At least since 2011, when the food magazine Lucky Peach devoted its inaugural issue to all things ramen, the Japanese noodle soup has been enormously popular with food buffs in the United States. In ...

On hot summer days, a steaming bowl of noodle soup doesn’t appeal to many people, but some tropical regions boast a tried-and-true tradition of slurping soup on the muggiest days in order to restore ...

Guests at Udon House take cooking classes from Japanese masters downstairs, then sleep in shared rooms upstairs. But don’t worry – there are opportunities to get out of the house a bit, including ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Countries’ foods are also windows on their souls. Take hamburgers. Hand-held, quick to assemble and wolf down, they embody a quintessentially American idea that founding father ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Where’s the ramen? It’s a common question among food lovers in Connecticut, where the ...

There are numerous points of etiquette to follow for anyone visiting Japan, including these seven dining dos and don'ts when ...