The canonical version and where to order it.
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.
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Tsujita LA in Sawtelle, Los Angeles is the LA outpost of Tokyo's Tsujita, simmering tonkotsu broth for 60 hours and serving it as ramen and tsukemen.
OrderTonkotsu tsukemen at lunch only.
TipTsukemen is served exclusively before 15:00; after 15:00 the menu switches to ramen and stays open until 02:00.
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