soba
Amusement Wanko Soba Kurukuru Wanko wants you to eat over a hundred bowls of noodles in one sitting.
Does soba pair well with ramen broth? And will our expectations of the presentation meet reality?
At a time when many small restaurants are going out of business, we speak to the manager of one that took the exact opposite approach.
Not far from Akihabara, there’s a soba spot that gave us food to eat and food for thought.
Over 70 years in service, with a very unusual type of noodle on the menu that was developed after World War II.
Our resident soba connoisseur hones in on the best eateries in the Akihabara and Okachimachi neighborhoods of Tokyo in this closely contested ranking.
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