The udon taxi is hard to miss. The car itself looks like any regular Japanese cab—a shiny black exterior with seats sheathed in doily-like covers. The main difference is that on the roof of the car, ...
Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. Marugame Udon established itself with noodle-making machines ...
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 ...
As Shoichi Sayano pulls open the metal drying-room door, a breeze sends ripples down the curtain-like wall of 10-foot-long udon noodles neatly folded over metal drying racks. “I still cut the noodles ...
Kagawa is a prefecture so enamoured with Sanuki udon noodles that the delicacy is both tourist attraction and TV star. We tuck in. The woman is lost. She’s heard about the old grocery shop in Kagawa ...