Any guidebook to Kyoto will suggest you visit the city’s historic temples and beautiful shrines, but when it comes to eating food you can’t have anywhere else, a trip to the ancient capital just isn’t ...

At Kyoto ramen restaurant Menbaka Fire Ramen, the chefs literally light your food on fire. The popular eatery is well-known for its theatrical way of cooking ramen in front of customers ...

In fact, there’s only one type of ramen on the menu: the house specialty Negi Ramen, loaded with sliced Kyoto-grown green onions, for 1,350 yen. See, when people call Ichidai’s noodles “fire ramen,” ...