{"id":430339,"date":"2026-09-09T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430339\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:34:12","slug":"kouchan-ramen-announces-new-menu-items-before-its-november-opening-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430339\/","title":{"rendered":"Kouchan Ramen announces new menu items before its November opening | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new ramen place will open its first US location in Plano in November.<\/p>\n<p>Latest update<\/p>\n<p>Kouchan Ramen has been working on exterior signage, permit approvals, interior construction and kitchen work per a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The Plano location will offer Mazemen, a brothless ramen mixed with a sauce or seasoning oil at the bottom of the bowl according to the release. The restaurant\u2019s mazemen is served with chashu, which is a braised pork commonly used to top ramen, green onions, seaweed, menma, which is made of dried and fermented bamboo shoots, and chopped onions.<\/p>\n<p>Kouchan Ramen has also added fried rice and karaage to its menu. Other <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano\/dining\/kouchan-ramen-opening-delayed-to-fall-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously<\/a> announced menu items include its gyoza and two variations of Tonkotsu ramen.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p>A restaurant representative first confirmed the new location to Community Impact in <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano-north\/dining\/kouchan-ramen-coming-soon-to-plano\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 2025<\/a>. The ramen shop\u2019s opening date was initially estimated for earlier this year before its latest expected opening date was announced, per <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano\/dining\/kouchan-ramen-opening-delayed-to-fall-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous<\/a> reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new ramen place will open its first US location in Plano in November. Latest update Kouchan Ramen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[149418,149420,149422,149423,130552,149421,149419,160,123639,162,161,113180,149417],"class_list":["post-430339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-gyoza","tag-hakata-style-ramen","tag-japanese-businesses","tag-japanese-food-in-plano","tag-kouchan-ramen","tag-mazemen","tag-menma","tag-plano","tag-plano-foodies","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-ramen-in-plano","tag-ramen-places-plano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}