Ramen Champ Rolls with the Punches
It’s a quiet Sunday night on the first floor of Chinatown’s Far East Plaza. A few people are eating outside Chego, but both Pok Pok Phat Thai and Scoops Chinatown are closed. Upstairs, though, is a different story.
It’s 7 p.m. and there are close to 20 people hovering outside Ramen Champ, a new restaurant that seats just 22. It’s the last day of Ramen Champ’s soft-opening weekend, and Downtown scenesters and a film crew who wants to shoot the kitchen are mingling with Chinatown elders and visitors who seem to be there largely to take pictures of people taking pictures...
Source: LA Magazine