After conducting our interview with 2019 City Guide pick Neighborhood Ramen, we were not going to leave without getting a private sampling of their menu. We tried three bowls from their list of six. Find our thoughts below.
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In preparing the 2019 update to our Philadelphia City Guide, we met up with one of the many exciting new businesses cropping up throughout the city. Here, we sit down with Lindsay Steigerwald and Jesse Pryor, owners of Neighborhood Ramen.
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Cycling is a year-long activity in Japan, even and especially when the weather gets chilly. From gear to ideal routes, we asked our friends at Tokyobike for their best tips.
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Phaidon’s latest offering, “The Japanese Garden” is an in-depth exploration of the art, beauty, and cultural significance of the Japanese garden through the ages. In this exclusive excerpt, author Sophie Walker explores reflection as elemental in the design of a Japanese garden.
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This year’s Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival explores themes of incarceration and the struggle to define Japanese American identity during a particularly tense period in American history. Festival Director Rob Buscher picks his top 3 documentaries to catch.
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With Halloween just around the corner, we called on our friend and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival director Rob Buscher to decode his favorite Japanese horror movies.
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Ceramist Romy Northover talks to us about her creative process and shows us around her Brooklyn studio in anticipation of our upcoming matcha bowl collaboration.
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Born from a love of water and print, Water Journal is an independent publication that explores the aesthetic beauty and complexity of water. We talk to editor-in-chief and digital designer Eddy Bruzas.
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If you’ve ever seen an ikebana arrangement, you know it’s not exactly like the elaborate floral arrangements you’re used to seeing at weddings. In fact, you would be forgiven for thinking there’s not much to arrange there at at all.
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On Thursday, November 17th, we held a small party to celebrate the launch of our limited edition collaboration with ceramic studio Felt + Fat.
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On an unseasonably warm night in October, we hosted our dear friends and collaborators Doug Johnston and Tomoe Matsuoka for a very special lecture in partnership with Philadelphia's annual design festival, DesignPhiladelphia.
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When illustrator Margherita Urbani traveled to Japan for the first time, she captured her travels the best way an artist can: by sketching thoughts and impressions in her sketchbook. The resulting Tokyo Diaryis a 40-page travel guide that showcases the beauty of encountering a new culture as an outsider.
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