Sawtelle newcomer Marugame Udon is hiring up now. The anticipated Japanese noodle shop is promising big things for the already restaurant-rich stretch of Sawtelle Japantown, but they’ve got a secret ...

The idea of homeostasis, the condition of stability necessary for life to function, implies that an organism in that state will be at ease or at rest. It’s not necessarily so. At Marugame Udon, the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In our constant search for exotic authenticity, it is easy to romanticise the Japanese noodle. It’s tempting to think ...

For the past 13 years, a family has been rolling, preparing and serving mouth-wateringly fresh noodles inside a nondescript factory – but you better come early to eat here. I took the 05:27 train from ...

Stumbling across quirky vending machines in unexpected places is one of the many unique joys of living in Japan. The oddly named Rat Sunrise tyre shop in Kanagawa, however, has gone all-in on gimmicky ...

Yume Ga Arukara, a little udon shop that makes big waves, expands from Cambridge into Boston’s Seaport District on February 19. You should probably get in line now. When founders Tsuyoshi Nishioka and ...

Stumbling across quirky vending machines in unexpected places is one of the many unique joys of living in Japan. The oddly named Rat Sunrise tyre shop in Kanagawa, however, has gone all-in on gimmicky ...