restaurant reviews & travel stories
At Din Tai Fung, London, I was treated to something that doesn’t seem to go together with Chinese restaurants. I was previously not one to shy away from a lack of cleanliness in my eateries. As some of my friends back home in the Orient …
Not to be confused with Biang. This place was to be at least twice as good (at least based on the repetition of its name). According to my friend Mr Google, “Biang” is the most complicated character in the Chinese language. Which in hindsight was …
Noodles bars and specialist noodle restaurants have been popping up all over London in recent years, including the sublime Kanada-ya. Most of these have been Japanese, with ramen bars proliferating like a rash, almost as if London had an itch it couldn’t satisfy. Departures from …
On a rainy rainy Tokyo day we went off to try some ramen. Not just any Ramen, but TOKYO RAMEN SHOW ramen. Time to start the eating.. err testing… The ramen are showcased from all over Japan. Twenty shops tonight. Big photos and shiny lights …