In the Japanese coastal city of Takamatsu, it's all about udon noodles. Some 800 udon restaurants serve the 400,000 city residents. Every day, a maximum of 100,000 portions of udon noodles are ...

The family grew grains and vegetables and mostly lived on what they produced. They often ate "udon" noodles in cold soup flavored with the seeds of “egoma,” or Korean perilla, for lunch on hot ...