O ne of the last three remaining Japantowns in the country, Little Tokyo was first established in the early 1900s as a ...

Established in 1976, Kouraku in the city's Little Tokyo district boasts recipes that have remained largely unchanged for five decades. Its popular menu items include tanmen, a type of ramen with ...

“It’d be a little too romantic to say that I was ... Between his first bowl of ramen and the opening of the first Ivan Ramen in Tokyo in 2007, Orkin had moved back to the United States ...

The shop was very small and a little fancier than most of the ramen joints I've visited in Tokyo. As the door shut behind me, silence seemed to fill the room. The only noises I heard were the odd ...

He then added, “I can’t wait to get back to Tokyo.” In 2007, when Orkin was “a little bit aimless” and not yet the foul-mouthed disciple of the ramen world he is today, he opened Ivan ...

When you walk into Little Tokyo Hibachi and Bento Box ... “It used to be a ramen place, so it had the hood I needed to cook hibachi,” Suharyanto said. “It’s an open kitchen, so everyone ...

For more than two decades, I have sought out some of the best ramen in Los Angeles, taking my passion for rich broth and bouncy alkaline noodles from Little Tokyo to San Gabriel Valley to now the ...