Review
New York has been hit lately with a run of ramen shops of its own. Two of the newest are the East and West Side cousins, respectively, Hide-Chan Ramen and Totto Ramen, on polar ends of 52nd Street...Hide-Chan Ramen, itself a franchise of a Japanese chain, is a squatter in the second-floor location vacated by one of Mr. Munekata’s yakitori bars: the funky aroma of pork bones boiling for the Hakata-style tonkotsu broth feels incongruous in the unrenovated space, and the piped-in dance music only makes matters worse. more →
