12 04/09
11:00

Yoshimura-ya Ramen (吉村家ラーメン)

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Yoshimura ya Ramen 4

This is where it all began. The very first iekei (家系) ramen. The head of the “house ramen” clan. The chinese characters for iekei are 家 “house” and 系 “affiliated”. Yoshimura-ya (吉村家) was the very first shop that started using the suffix “house”.

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02 04/09
10:41

The real Japanese iPhone killer

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Forget all the other features like built in TV-tuners and Osaifu-keitai talked about in the wired-nobilog articles on how the iPhone is doing in Japan. This is the real iPhone killer feature. ^^.