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The Twenty-Fifth Adventure: Takashi NYC Welcome to A Ramen Quest! We have a special treat for you in the form of a video blog.

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The Twenty-Fourth Adventure: Ajisen Ramen

The Twenty-Fourth Adventure: Ajisen Ramen

We’re back with another exciting ramen quest! This time, we went to Ajisen Ramen in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Ajisen’s first location was founded in 1968 in Kyushu, Japan. Now there are over 600 locations all over the world! What would we find at this restaurant? Read on to find out! Let’s start with what we enjoyed. Ajisen has a very nice interior space. The walls are adorned with paintings of sumo…

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The Twenty-Third Adventure: Ichiran

The Twenty-Third Adventure: Ichiran

Hello everyone! We are back with another ramen quest and also a new *Instagram account*. Check us out and follow us @aramenquest! Our good friend Matt joined us this time on our outing to Ichiran, a new ramen spot in Bushwick off of the Morgan Ave stop on the L. This is Ichiran’s first location in the United States. From the outside, it looks like a factory, which makes sense because the noodles…

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The Twenty-Second Adventure: Mr. Taka

The Twenty-Second Adventure: Mr. Taka

Hello, fellow ramen-lovers! We’ve changed some things up around the blog so take a look around. Also, we have some special surprises coming your way pretty soon so make sure to come back to check them out. For this post, we visited a delightful little spot in the Lower East Side called Mr. Taka. It is the joint venture of Chef Takatoshi Nagara of Bigiya in Tokyo, Japan and Takayuki Watanabe. Our…

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The Twenty-First Adventure: Momosan Ramen & Sake

The Twenty-First Adventure: Momosan Ramen & Sake

Hello again! Our latest ramen question brought us to Momosan Ramen & Sake, a new spot unveiled by Chef Masaharu Morimoto, who you may know from the popular TV show Iron Chef. This restaurant, like others in New York, attempts to elevate its ramen to a high cuisine level. Momosan mostly realizes this goal with very good food, attentive service, and a modern interior. Its advantageous location is…

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The Twentieth Adventure: Ramen Lab (Shoki Ramen House Edition)

The Twentieth Adventure: Ramen Lab (Shoki Ramen House Edition)

Hello again! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? We apologize for the extended gap since our last post. Much has happened since our last ramen quest. Marion went home to Korea for a few months to be with her family. She also changed her name to Sophia. Welcome back, Sophia! Now that she’s back and settled in we decided to continue our adventures by going to Ramen Lab, a place we had always wanted to…

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The Nineteenth Adventure: Bassanova

The Nineteenth Adventure: Bassanova

Our latest ramen quest took us to Bassanova Ramen in Chinatown. Marion and I both kept hearing about it from friends and other people we’d meet, and it seems like Bassanova has carved out a good space for itself in the city’s ramen scene. We ended up going there on a chilly Thursday evening about a week and a half ago and came away quite impressed. Bassanova definitely gives off a trendy vibe.…

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The Eighteenth Adventure: Mentoku

The Eighteenth Adventure: Mentoku

Wow, another update so soon after the last one! Hope you’re as excited as I am typing this right now! Last weekend we found ourselves out with a group of friends for a birthday excursion. Since New York was still recovering from the huge blizzard that had rolled in, we figured that some hot, hearty ramen would be the right choice for dinner. Marion found Mentoku, a new spot in Hell’s Kitchen and…

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The Seventeenth Adventure: Zundo-Ya

The Seventeenth Adventure: Zundo-Ya

Hello and happy new year everyone! Thank you for reading and keeping up with us as we enter a new year. The first ramenventure of the year took us to Zundo-ya, one of New York’s newer ramen shops. Zundo-ya, like Ippudo, is a Japanese import and has just opened its first shop in the States after establishing itself for fifteen years in Japan. Coincidentally, it is also right around the corner from…

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The Sixteenth Adventure: Ippudo Westside

The Sixteenth Adventure: Ippudo Westside

For this adventure we got to cross one of New York City’s ramen heavyweights off our list: Ippudo Westside in Hell’s Kitchen. This is the famed chain’s second Manhattan location, with the original opening in the East Village in 2008. A quick disclaimer before we proceed with the review. I (Julian) used be a ramen cook here. I started when I first moved to the city about two years ago until this…

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Friends in Korea 

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The Fifteenth Adventure: Naruto Ramen

The Fifteenth Adventure: Naruto Ramen

Hello readers! Just a side note before we start our review, we have a new page on our site. If you click on the “NYC Ramen Cheat Sheet,” you’ll see a list of our favorite spots in the city – much easier than scrolling through all of our posts. We hope this will be helpful in your personal adventures to seek out great ramen in the city. For this ramen adventure, we went to the upper east side…

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The Fourteenth Adventure: Mu Ramen

The Fourteenth Adventure: Mu Ramen

Well how about that – two updates in the same month? That’s just about unheard of for us. In all honesty, it usually takes a while to write these posts, so they go up a while after we’ve actually visited the restaurant in question. However, there won’t be a delay on the update this time since we were all very excited about this latest spot. This weekend, our friend Matt, Marion, and I went to Mu…

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The Thirteenth Adventure: Ivan Ramen

Hello everyone! After another long layoff, we’ve got a fresh update for you. This adventure was much like the one from last Thanksgiving because we had a large group of fellow ramen enthusiasts with us. It’s always a lot of fun to be with a bigger group because people are bound to order different things and you invariably get to try a bunch of different ramen bowls. This time, we journeyed out to…

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The Twelfth Adventure: Ramen-Ya

Hello, and welcome back for the latest installment of Ramen Quest! Seriously though, it’s been quite a while since our last update. Marion and I have both been very busy the last couple of months – she was intensively studying for the MCAT and I basically didn’t see her for about a month while that was going on. I started a new job and have recently been searching for a new apartment to live in…

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The Eleventh Adventure: Momofuku Noodle Bar

Hello again everyone! It’s been a while! Apologies for the long gap in between posts (again). It’s been what, three months since our last write-up but it feels good to finally be back in action. Winter always seems like a tough time to get things done (at least it does for me) and this winter was no different. Every time Marion and I tried to get together to go on another ramen quest something…

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South Beach, Florida circa three years ago