"It’s a sleepy Friday afternoon at Yume Ga Arukara, a nook of a noodle shop inside the food court at Lesley College in Cambridge, MA. Jamie Guan quietly chops scallions. Tomo Shinoda rolls udon noodle dough through a hefty machine that slices each pudgy slab into thick strands. They’ll go into an intensely flavorful broth for niku [beef] udon, the one thing (yes, one thing) this restaurant cooks, which is so profoundly delicious it earned Yume Ga Arukara a place on our Hot 10 list this year." - ByElyse Inamine