While ramen, with its bold broth, shines as the star of Japanese noodles in America, gentle, subtle soba is starting to make inroads. The buckwheat flour noodles, usually about the size of spaghetti, ...

The hilarious and food-loving Raphael Gomes takes on a ramen noodles challenge against a Japanese chef. Lake Mead warnings issued by multiple experts Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion ...

PROVIDENCE – If you ask Scott LaChapelle, he will confess that up to 2017, he went most of his life oblivious to the world of Japanese ramen. “Like most people, I would just associate ramen with cup ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Lantis’ journey began when she left her home country of Japan with her husband, Bruce, and their ...

Slurping soba while wearing a white shirt is a dangerous game to play. But somehow, I emerged from Sora Soba Dining, a new San Francisco Japantown restaurant from the team behind Hinodeya Ramen Bar, ...

In TasteAtlas' 2026 ranking for noodle dishes, Vietnam stands second worldwide, trailing only Japan, with 18 representatives among the world's 100 best. The list also recognizes other Vietnamese ...

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Yoshinoya’s big thing is, and always has been, beef bowls, or, as they’re called in Japanese, gyudon. So strong is the connection between Yoshinoya and gyudon that when we were looking at the menu and ...

The Aflac Duck is a rock star in Japan. That’s the only way I can describe how big he has become there. In a down economy, Aflac Japan’s sales increased by 12% in 2003, the year we introduced the duck ...

Fumiyoshi Mizushima, the general manager responsible for ready-made meals in Lawson’s merchandise department. The company is increasing its procurement of barley by 20 percent, eyeing the specialized ...

LT Lam, rubber duck tycoon who helped Hong Kong eclipse Japan in toy manufacturing Lam was the last survivor of the generation that created a toy industry of more than a thousand factories in Hong ...