BTS‘ Bay Area food tour appears to have started with a bowl of ramen in San Jose’s Japantown.

Kumako Ramen said that RM, the rapper and leader of the global K-pop group, visited its Japantown restaurant before BTS wrapped its three-night run at Stanford Stadium.

“Before the shows even started, RM made a quiet stop at Kumako Ramen Japantown – a moment our team won’t forget anytime soon,” the restaurant wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, May 20. “Thank you, RM, for dining with us and sharing a moment in our space. The Bay and the entire Kumako family are truly grateful.”

The restaurant did not immediately say what RM ordered or exactly when he visited. In the post, Kumako gave a “big shoutout to Audrey for being part of that experience,” apparently referring to a staff member.

For BTS fans, known as ARMY, the post added one more stop to the group’s growing unofficial Bay Area itinerary.

During their stay for sold-out Stanford Stadium concerts, members of the group have been spotted or reported at Redwood City pizza restaurant Vesta, California’s Great America, Hub Silicon Valley pickleball club in Campbell and Stanford’s “Crying Tree,” a campus site made famous by Korean rapper Tablo.

Kumako Ramen, on Jackson Street in San Jose’s Japantown, has been a neighborhood fixture since 2006. The small restaurant is known for ramen, Japanese curry and gyoza, with menu items including shio, shoyu, tonkotsu and spicy mabo ramen.

The timing of the post seemed intentional. Several fans thanked the restaurant for sharing the news only after BTS had finished its local concerts, a delay that likely helped protect the group’s privacy during its Bay Area visit.

The Stanford shows – held May 16, 17 and 19 – marked BTS’ first Bay Area run since the group played Oakland Arena in 2018.

The seven-member group is now headed to Las Vegas for the next dates on its “Arirang” world tour.

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This article originally published at BTS’ Bay Area food tour included a stop at a tiny San Jose ramen shop.