Easy to make, these noodles taste delicious when stir-fried with teriyaki sauce. Throw in some veggies like mushrooms and carrots, caramalised pork strips (if you like) or just dunk them in dashi.

It has become a hotbed of Japanese noodles. Of ramen and soba and udon, with toppings and mix-ins both expected and exotic, both standard and madcap. Old Pasadena isn’t the Little Tokyo of the ...