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SSchauden I totally agree. The dashi has such a smooth taste, and is very light on the stomach. Compared to other spots that totally destroy the flavor with overwhelming salt, this really hit the spot.

I especially loved the shrimp dumplings that were included in the dish. 

Herp, this was the spot.

essentially, most hyped joints with female-heavy lines focus on kawaii/trendiness/novelty rather than quality. Sure, there are exceptions but look at the stupid ass line for cafe kaila in gyre. 

 

the only ramen place that's kind of female-heavy that i know of is Afuri in Ebisu. i like their ramen. i wouldn't call it a stand-out but much better than most of the average ramen shops. 

 

i agree on warito. the wait is usually not worth it though. pretty easy to get a seat if you go after 130pm. 

rokurinsha probably has the japan's most absurd line. i think i got there a little before 11 and i was in line for good 1.5 hours on a weekday. most of people who are lined up are kimoi otaku & freetors. 

 

Meguro's gonno sukezaka is another ramen hot spot.

 

http://ramendb.supleks.jp/rank

I think this ranking is fairly credible with the exception of Jiros. 麺屋 一燈 I keep hearing about but I've never been. 

 

A lot of people are into the Hachioji-style ramen. I've never had it before. Any experience?

Thanks for the ranking link Herp! 

I actually passed by Warito with a friend, but it was packed at the time and so we went to another joint just up the street.

The name was in Kanji mostly, located on the 2nd floor across from Warito. Quality was great!

The places I've tried on numerous occasions have been:

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Nakamoto 

Denya (Located in my hometown Shiki)

Some Curry ramen place in Mizuhoudai.. Blew me away.

Ichiran

Ueda Ramen (Located in Niiza. Was on TV recently).. Their 焦ãŒã—Miso is sooooo good!

I've been to a ton more, but can't remember them all

Aside from Takadanobaba, any other joints in Tokyo good for Ramen? I've been around Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Shibuya and only found a few decent spots

Happy new year from the land of the rising!

xian is too gdlk

Nonnative

I seriously need to spend more of my time in Omotesando and Odaiba.

Going to hold back on buying sunglasses for now.. I was saving up for a pair of Tom Fords, but I'll just buy some shoes instead. That and Muji is having a sale

Thanks everyone, I'll probably go check out Globe specs and cradle since I'm off tomorrow and Friday.

And I was looking for mainly sunglasses, but I'll be looking for eyewear soon since my eyes are getting bad.

Are there any good stores that sell eyewear? I've been looking (perhaps not hard enough) and to no avail.

I want Jill Sanderrrrrrrrrrrrrr shirt

Thank god for this torrential rain, because shit has been unrelenting with regards to humidity. Now I can relax

For some reason, I've only been investing time into fighters (dead or alive, virtua fighter), the other games seemed to have lost their connection with me.

Dragon Quest X maybe, and PS Vita

Met a really strong Guile player by the name of -SORA- at Taito game station a few days ago. Cool guy. Competition in Ikebukuro is poop lol.. So many scrubs playing, you could level up in like 20 games..

Ok, is there any small joints in Ikebukuro that sell some real cheap gyuudon aside from Yoshinoya and Nakau? I love both, but I want to try some other joints.

Im hitting up Wakoshi tomorrow also, are there any good spots for grub there?

I just might actually agree with Rajio on something this time around!

Where's a good place to buy men's jewellery?

Yea true, much of the games you mentioned are still consistently strong among the cream of the crop. Everyday I'm on youtube there's a new ST tournament video posted up. and of course theshend. I wouldn't go as far as to say the Japanese don't care much about the scene here, since as of late a lot of jpn newcomers from the scene are starting to pop up (some from the ae scene, etc) in major North American tournaments like EVO.

But I do see where you're coming from. With such a huge population of Japanese, it's such a small percentage that actually make it out of Japan lol.. with VF coming back into the scene now (i'm hearing the top brad player may show up at EVO) we may see a small influx. Personally, as long as there's competition the Japanese will always pop up.

didn't get bodied imo. xian sent him to losers, but in the ft7 set umehara lost 5 straight using yun & guile before he switched to ryu. final score was 7-5. but he also hasn't been playing that well lately.

Daigo is slipping. The amount of talent that's coming out of the woodwork not only in Japan, but North America as well is fantastic to see. I don't dislike Daigo, he's an excellent player but man I love me some Fuudo and Itabashi Zangief. Then with the likes of Dieminion really stepping his game up tremendously, gives us more of a chance this time around.

I read this recent article that Choco Blanka posted on EG, and she speaks about how the scene in Japan is still going strong because of how big it is here in North America. I smell some fresh competition soon

http://www.bloomberg...for-expats.html

CEO will be hype, but now after hearing that DM Xian bodied Daigo at Singapore majors, it gives me more reason to believe that we'll be seeing a new champ on the scene.

Still waiting for EVO, I want to see Fuudo go H.A.M. again.

Nakashima nomnom.

She played a great part in Nana. But she too frail for me.. Needs some meat

The best music to work out to

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.. Gimme dat

I must confess, I do cardio workouts to Initial D soundtracks