La Tsukemen appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Tsukemen (LA-style dipping ramen) · Los Angeles
Thick chewy ramen noodles served cold, with a small bowl of intensely concentrated pork-and-fish broth for dipping. Sawtelle's Japantown popularised tsukemen on the West Coast.
Tsujita LA Artisan Noodle opened on Sawtelle Boulevard in 2011 as the first American branch of Tokyo's Tsujita (founded 2005) and is widely credited with bringing modern tsukemen to Los Angeles. The broth simmers pork bone with dried bonito for over sixty hours into a sauce thick enough to coat the noodle, in the lineage that Higashi-Ikebukuro Taishoken seeded across Tokyo's tsukemen scene. The Sawtelle Japantown stretch around Olympic and West LA built a cluster of ramen-yas around the same Sawtelle-Japanese template.
Where to eat in Los Angeles:
- Tsujita LA Artisan Noodle