Ramen is extremely popular, both at home and in restaurants, but you might be eating it wrong. The best way to eat ramen is by slurping, much to the chagrin of traditional table manners. Over at ...

One of downtown Chicago’s first ramen-focused restaurants is closing. Slurping Turtle, opened by acclaimed chef Takashi Yagihashi in River North in 2011, will serve its last customers around the end ...

Between the lifting of pandemic travel restrictions and the weakness of the yen against foreign currencies, Japan is seeing a huge influx of visitors from overseas these days. It’s great to see people ...

In Japan, the noises you make while eating say a lot about you. Slurping soup and hot noodles -- something most Japanese men over 40 consider polite -- is increasingly viewed with distaste by younger ...

The ramen company Nissin has developed a noise-canceling fork. It detects the sound of someone slurping noodles and directs your smartphone to play a masking sound. Good morning. I'm David Greene. I'm ...

Slurping Turtle, one of the early leaders of Chicago’s ramen craze, is about to slurp its final noodle. The restaurant (116 W. Hubbard St., 312-464-0466) will close at the end of May. “We told the ...