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Recent Posts. Hidden Gems on The Upp Many more places followed over the next few years, of which Tokyo mini-chain Ippudo 65 4th Ave, is the most luxurious and difficult to get into, highlighting an opaque pork-bone broth called tonkotsu. By contrast Ramen Misoya 2nd Ave, offers a menu centered on several varieties of miso, including one bowl snowed with parmesan cheese; while Japanese chain Ramen Setagaya 34 St Marks Pl, is notable for a wide range of broth stylings and the cheaper prices favored by students.

In a neighborhood obsessed with ramen, the buckwheat noodles called soba seem like an also-ran. But these gluten-free ribbons — considered the Japanese national noodle — may be about to have their second moment in the spotlight.

Sobakoh E 5th St, pointedly serves no ramen, but presents soba, made right in the window with an arcane system featuring dowels of decreasing circumference, in soups and in more austere presentations featuring a bamboo mat and dipping broth. Founded in , Soba-ya E 9th St, offers the noodles in slightly more opulent surroundings, as part of a fuller menu also highlighting tempura, sashimi, and tofu — but no ramen. Also bucking the current ramen craze, Udon West 11 St Marks Pl, concentrates on the puffy white, wormlike wheat noodles, which are a delight in themselves but rarely celebrated.

Plain bowls of noodles are accompanied by curries, tempuras, and croquettes, at rock-bottom prices. Founded in , Decibel E 9th St, occupies a hoary tenement downstairs, the serpentine rooms interrupted by columns that seem to be barely holding up the floor above.

Dark and somewhat dank, the basement seems the perfect merger of the Tokyo and East Village aesthetics. The sophisticated sake list belies the apparent trashiness, and the snack food is exemplary, including savory grilled pork sausages and a winter stew called oden. On the other side of Tompkins Square, Satsko E 7th St, is smaller, brighter, cleaner, and more comfortable, but with a slightly less impressive sake list.

The former Sapporo East, now dubbed Beronberon E 10th St, , is the perfect example, with almost shockingly inexpensive prices. The translation of the name "the ship" refers to the sushi assortments served on a wooden ship, but the menu also excels at donburi, udon, tempura, and ginger pork. Sunrise Mart 4 Stuyvesant St, — Matcha powder, green tea Kit-Kats, sashimi-grade fish, pork and beef sliced into barbecue portions, nearly every packaged ramen imaginable, fresh daikon and seaweed, boxed chocolates, cosmetics, cleaning products — really almost any item imaginable for homesick Japanese.

Open since the early s, and true anchor of Little Tokyo, it can be visited like a museum. Almost as well stocked as Sunrise Mart, but more in a snack-food vein, and exceedingly handy to the NYU dorms, M2M 55 3rd Ave, also mounts a small eatery with tables, and a made-to-order menu of sushi, ramen, and donburi with a few Korean dishes thrown in. Sakaya East 9th St, — this handsome wood-clad space stocks over varieties of premium sake including rare flavored sakes , as well as shochu and plum wine.

Weekly tastings provide an easy way to become more knowledgeable about sake. A few years ago, Kanoyama 2nd Ave, replaced Iso founded , an old-timer that boasted a logo created by Keith Haring.