Food

Live Feed From Tokyo: Ramen at Ippudo

by Robert Sietsema

May 11, 2012

Received 12:02 a.m. (our time), bowl of noodles at Ippudo in Tokyo. Red bowl! (photo: Tracy Van Dyk)

Tracy Van Dyk (FiTR San Francisco correspondent) on the Tokyo Ippudo: “There was no wait. There was no English sign outside either.”

For comparative purposes:

Ramen at New York’s Ippudo

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