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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Spicy, steaming, slurpy ramen might be everyone’s favorite Japanese food. In Tokyo, long lines circle around blocks, and waiting an hour for your ramen is normal. What awaits might be ...

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 ...

Ramen, the beloved noodle dish, has an interesting history that traces back to ancient China. Over the centuries, it has ...

Okonomiyaki is a Japanese dish. Okonomi means "what you like", yaki means "fried" or "grilled". Traditionally, okonomiyaki is fried at the table on a hot iron plate with a spatula. Michael ...

Here in the States, ramen has been the darling of the Japanese noodle-slurping world for at least a decade, and it doesn't take a culinary anthropologist to understand why. You've got noodles, broth, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Honoring his Japanese heritage, the owner of Grand Rapids’ newest ramen restaurant has worked hard to create the perfect blend of east meets Midwest at Noodle Pig. All the ramen ...

Pufferfish is regarded as a luxury in Japan and a meal featuring the potentially poisonous delicacy can easily cost up to 20,000 yen ($125) at high-end restaurants. But now, adventurous foodies in ...