Nothing warms the soul quite like a piping-hot bowl of ramen. Here are the Valley's best spots serving the Japanese noodle ...

Tonkotsu ramen is a Japanese noodle soup made from pork bones (specifically ... This lays a perfect base for the tender yet slightly chewy noodles to go over, kept company by various toppings ...

One noodle chain operator from Japan is striving to ride out the slump, in part, by emphasizing its "Japanese-ness" and replicating what is hot in its homeland.

One cultural difference he has observed is that Americans tend to leave the noodles and drink all the soup, while the Japanese mostly do the opposite. And taste is only part of what makes good ramen.

There are many different ways to make a ramen noodle soup, using different soup bases, such as miso, soy, salt (clear broth) and tonkotsu (“pork bone’’ cloudy white broth). Most Japanese ...

Hiromitsu Nozaki, executive chef at a Japanese cuisine restaurant called ... They often ate "udon" noodles in cold soup flavored with the seeds of “egoma,” or Korean perilla, for lunch ...