Founded in 1993 and steadily gaining popularity ever since, the Ichiran chain has opened it's first restaurant outside of Japan in Taiwan this year. In the summer of next year there are plans to open another Ichiran in New York. We visited to the flagship restaurant to find out the secret behind Ichiran's rows of Chinese lanterns and their souvenir corner.

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