{"id":98764,"date":"2025-12-17T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98764\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:20:06","slug":"marugame-monzo-review-little-tokyo-staple-produces-fresh-udon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98764\/","title":{"rendered":"Marugame Monzo Review: Little Tokyo Staple Produces Fresh Udon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Since 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/11232\/marugame-monzo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marugame Monzo<\/a> has perfected the art of thick and bouncy Sanuki-style udon, freshly prepared in its open kitchen. This <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/maps\/best-restaurants-los-angeles-little-tokyo-japanese\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Tokyo staple<\/a>, once considered a space for Daikokuya stragglers to wander into when faced with a long wait, has become its own dining destination for its unique fusion udon dishes and impossibly crisp bites of tempura. The restaurant does the classics well, too; warm, comforting bowls of beef udon and cold and tangy plum shiso udon are also worthy options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">If you\u2019re dining solo or in a pair, sit at the bar for a front row view of the udon noodles being stretched, cut, and boiled. It\u2019s dinner and a show in one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Each bowl of udon is completely customizable with toppings that include green onions, umeboshi paste, soft boiled eggs, chile paste, tofu, and assorted tempura \u2014 so feel free to curate your ideal bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2013, Marugame Monzo has perfected the art of thick and bouncy Sanuki-style udon, freshly prepared in its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-98764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}