Sacramento, CA

Akebono

Feeling a bit out of sorts today thinking lunch and my mom’s company might perk me up. Jamming in the car with my David Bowie playlist and listening to ‘Fame’ off we went to Akebono for some Japanese food. A bowl of champon…

Noodle Thoughts

Welcome to my blog

This blog has been a long time coming floating around in my head in 2015. I have slurped countless bowls of ramen in my lifetime, mostly undocumented, but the memories are still rich even more so being mom to ramen boy…

Sacramento, CA

Raijin Ramen House

Must admit that we frequent Shoki Ramen House so much that we neglect to try any other ramen places in town and ramen boy is a loyal Shoki Ramen customer. He was hankering for some ramen after his soccer game…

Sacramento, CA

Shoki Ramen House I

This is our go to ramen place close to home. If ramen boy had his way he would eat ramen daily. He doesn’t get tired of it and he’s a huge fan of Shoki’s tan tan men. Good friends and…

Beaverton, OR

Yuzu

Yuzu serves delicious ramen. A true gem in Oregon for a really good bowl of Kyushu style noodles. We were in Portland for a short summer break pretty excited about the food delights that the city has to offer. Ramen was…

New York City

Totto Ramen

Ramen boy and I took Uber (his new favorite mode of city transportation and must confess rather convenient) to Totto Ramen. We got there a few minutes before the noon opening and there was already a line forming outside the…

New York City

Ippudo NY

Blurry eyed from a red eye flight ramen boy and I dropped off our bags, hopped on the subway and made our way to the East Village just in time for Ippudo NY to open. I was in town…

Mountain View, CA

Ramen House Ryowa

Ryowa has a place in my heart. Hubby and I ate here when we lived in Palo Alto and my folks would drive from Sacramento to meet us for lunch. I am convinced ramen boy developed a taste for Ryowa in utero. It…

Tokyo

Doraichi

I was in town to run the Tokyo Marathon and ready for carbo-loading at my favorite restaurants. So many ramen choices in Japan where does one really start. For me this warrants a trip to Doraichi for its famously delicious tan tan men shiru nashi…

Packaged Ramen

Ippudo Tonkotsu Ramen

Ramen boy was in for a huge treat when my Japanese girlfriend found this instant packaged ramen in a 7-Eleven convenience store during her trip to Tokyo and brought it back for him. She knew ramen boy is a huge…