Tonkotsu ramen at Alice & Friends’ Vegan Kitchen

Tonkotsu ramen is a Western favorite of Japanese cuisine because it s peak East-meets-West comfort food It s typically made from pork bones ton meaning pork and kotsu meaning bone broth and sometimes upgraded with tonkatsu a thin panko-breaded pork cutlet which the Japanese adapted from the French The upshot is a decadent improvement on the familiar chicken The post Tonkotsu ramen at Alice Friends Vegan Kitchen appeared first on Chicago Reader