Jay Eats Worldwide

I was watching one of Anthony Bourdain's Japan episodes the other night, he and Chef Morimoto were eating soba at a well-known soba restaurant in Tokyo.  It's been awhile since I've had good soba, not many soba places make their own noodles.  It's hard to explain how good soba is if you haven't had a fresh noodles. I stopped in my favorite soba shop, Otafuku in Gardena.   I was introduced to this noodle shop about 14 years ago, when their menu didn't have a lot of English descriptions and I usually ordered blind.  Today is a different story, the dining room has expanded into the next store front and the menu now has English descriptions and some pictures.  Regardless, the noodles are made fresh each day and they know how to cook them.  For me, the perfect noodle is cooked al dente. Otafuku is hidden behind a plain store front with a nondescript sign.  Most of the regulars know that they have a small parking lot and entrance in the ...

The Original Ramen Burger ! The Ramen Burger Created by Keizo Shimamoto NYC's latest food craze made it's way to the West Coast for a special pop up on September 7-8, 2013. More than a 1,000 people showed up at Mitsuwa in Torrance on Saturday for one of the coveted 500 Ramen Burgers . Los Angeles Times post  Sunday's Pasadena Pop up 30 People in line at 9:30 am outside of  Osawa Restaurant When Keizo told me he was moving to Japan to study ramen, I knew he would come back with something HUGE!  It was an honor to work with him at the Pasadena pop up AND  to finally try the dish he had been working on.   Burgers Up! (cause I'm not sure how to say it in Japanese...) Just before 11 am, t he Pasadena Ramen Burger  Pop up  is Now Open! Keizo signed a lot of T-shirts   I didn't get an autograph, but did go home with a  stain on my shirt,  I'm a messy eat...