the American chef Ivan Orkin left Japan. He moved to a house in Westchester in upstate New York, an hour’s drive from his childhood home on Long Island, opening an outpost of Ivan Ramen ...

And there's bad ramen: hard noodles found in a package with a little packet of seasoning. Chef Ivan Orkin is the king of ramen. After opening a restaurant in Japan, he's returned to the U.S. and ...

PHOTO COURTESY OF IVAN ORKIN Orkin's first restaurant, Ivan Ramen, was a major breakthrough ... in high school that he would one day become a chef, but it was only in Taipei, amid a typhoon ...

But of course, leave room for ramen. Tokyo Shio Ramen ($13) is one of the traditional dishes, and the dashi and chicken stock broth is lighter than most American ramen fare. It's made with rye ...