Word: udon
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...shoved my diary into the hands of HCAP Japan’s former president and demanded he draw a gastronomic map of Tokyo. I was more than a little overzealous, but my requests turned up little. My survey yielded a suggestion to find “real soba, real udon, real ramen,” (a pointer as specific as “find a real hot dog in New York”) and an arrow in my journal pointing to Osaki, a small district in western Tokyo where the best ramen bar supposedly existed. The only concrete destination...
Shamon said that Wagamama—which specializes in ramen-style noodle dishes, udon bowls, and other various stir-fried concoctions—picked the two Massachusetts locations both because of their East Coast proximity to company headquarters in London and because they had found a receptive audience...
Wagamama—a Japanese word which means “willful, naughty child”—serves ramen and udon bowls as well as assorted stir-fried dishes at more than 70 restaurants around the globe, and plans to open shop in a former watch store next to Staples in mid-July, said Paul O’Farrell, the company’s chief operating officer...
...scene couldn't be more different at Sushi + Soul, www.sushi-soul.de. Here shoeless locals and the expats who make up Düsseldorf's expanding Japanese population - the third largest in Europe - enjoy fresh sashimi and piping-hot udon curled up on tatami mats strewn with feather cushions, while others sip sake at a candlelit bar scattered with driftwood. Per-haps most atmospheric of all these waterside eateries is Lido, www.lido1960.de, a glass cube with 360 degree views at the center of a €5.9 million footbridge spanning the harbor. Inside, Bauhaus furnishings and rust banquettes accommodate diners feasting on trattoria...
...Lord Buddha because it wasn't human?has roamed a subterranean universe known as the Muang Badan for thousands of years, slithering through a vast network of caves and tunnels. The main thoroughfare?the Naga superhighway, if you like?is said to run from Kam Chanode in Udon Thani province to Wat Paa Ahong, a temple on the riverbank more than 100 kilometers away in neighboring Nong Khai. Pilgrims, I was told, visit Kam Chanode to anoint themselves with water from the Naga's pond...