Ramen

Are These the Six Best Ramen Shops in the Country?

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Food writer Keizo Shimamoto is a ramen obsessive: Exhibit A is his blog Go Ramen! and the tangential claim that he’s “probably slurped more bowls of ramen than any other American.” The peripatetic noodle guy is now also the subject of Michael McAteer’s short documentary Ramen Dreams, an odyssey of broth and chashu. Shimamoto has been hitting up East and West Coast shops in the last year, and in no particular order, he tells the Asia Society’s Asia Blog that his current top five are Totto Ramen in Manhattan, Dassara Ramen in Brooklyn, Tsujita in L.A., Shoki Ramen House in Sacramento, and Foo-Foo Tei in Hacienda Heights. Though not a dedicated ramen shop, Grant Achatz’s high-end Chicago bar Aviary ranks as a bonus pick, if only for its “molecular ramen.” [Asia Blog]

Are These the Six Best Ramen Shops in the Country?