Hiro Igarashi
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Hiro grew up in a family that loved ramen. At 18, he started working at his first ramen shop. After attending college, he visted LA and tried the ramen here. He was shocked at the poor quality and bad customer service. So he thought, “Some day I want to amaze people with really good authentic ramen served at a Japanese level quality of service”. With his partner Nori, he hopes to do that with their HiroNori Craft Ramen locations throughout Southern California.
Nori Akasaka
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Growing up as a child, Nori was obsessed with ramen. All through high school, he worked at ramen restaurants. He then moved to Tokyo, and worked at a ramen restaurant where lots of bones were used for their soup base — over 1K lbs per day! (This method serves as a base for HiroNori’s current recipe.) In 2011, Nori moved to LA and was surprised by the low quality of ramen. So in 2017, he started HiroNori Craft Ramen with Hiro to offer better customer service and ramen for all.