Ramen & Noodles

Ramen, soba, udon & yakisoba

Noodles are Japan’s beloved fast food, each with its own etiquette and season: springy ramen in a deep bowl of broth, buckwheat soba served cold on a bamboo tray in summer, and the sweet-savoury griddled yakisoba of the festival stall. Slurping, here, is a compliment.

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4 recipes in this region.

Vegan

Tokyo, Japan (teamLab Planets, Toyosu) · Japanese

Spicy Vegan Miso Ramen (Vegan Ramen UZU–Style)

A home tribute to the spicy vegan miso ramen at teamLab's Vegan Ramen UZU in Tokyo: a kombu-and-shiitake dashi whisked with oat milk into a pale, creamy broth, a sesame-miso-doubanjiang tare, and a composed plate of real vegetables — charred tomato, a fanned roasted maitake, crisp lotus chips, split okra, thread chili, and a whisper of yuzu. No fake meat, all umami.

IntermediateMainsNoodles

A bowl of Tokyo shoyu ramen — curly noodles in a clear brown broth topped with slices of rolled chashu pork, a halved soft-boiled marinated egg with jammy yolk, bamboo shoots, nori, and sliced green spring onion.

Tokyo, Japan · Japanese

Tokyo Shoyu Ramen (Soy Sauce Ramen)

The classic Tokyo bowl: springy noodles in a clear, soy-seasoned chicken broth, topped with marinated egg, chashu pork, and spring onion. A weekend project broken into make-ahead parts that come together into a restaurant-worthy bowl.

AdvancedMainsNoodles

A generous tangle of glossy brown stir-fried yakisoba noodles piled on a plate with wilted cabbage and slivers of pork, crowned with a bright mound of red pickled ginger, a dusting of green aonori seaweed, and a squiggle of pale mayonnaise, festival-stall style.

Japan (nationwide street and home food; a fixture of matsuri festival stalls everywhere) · Japanese

Yakisoba (Japanese Stir-Fried Noodles)

Griddled wheat noodles tossed with cabbage, pork, and a sweet-savoury yakisoba sauce, then finished with aonori, pickled ginger, and a squiggle of mayo. The smoky, saucy festival-stall classic you can make in fifteen minutes on a home stovetop.

EasyMainsNoodles

A neat fan of chilled brown-flecked soba noodles arranged on a square black bamboo zaru, topped with fine shreds of dark nori, beside a small cup of amber dipping tsuyu and little mounds of bright green wasabi and sliced scallion on a pale wooden table.

Veg

Japan (nationwide; the soba craft is most storied in Nagano/Shinshu and old Edo/Tokyo) · Japanese

Zaru Soba (Chilled Buckwheat Noodles with Dipping Sauce)

Cold buckwheat soba fanned over a bamboo zaru, dipped bite by bite into a chilled dashi-soy tsuyu sharpened with scallion and wasabi. The purest, most refreshing noodle dish in the Japanese summer, and a quiet showcase for good dashi.

EasyMainsNoodles