"If you’re obsessed with chile, you can’t help but be impressed by the increasing availability of ramen spiked with hot peppers. This place features not the usual chile-laced miso, but a milky chicken paitan boiled for eight hours with “chili skin” called kuu chile. Also find therein spicy ground chicken, pork belly, and greens that cook in the broth. The menu at this tiny Financial District ramen-ya (there’s also an Upper East Side branch) also lists beef ramen in a miso broth with garlic chips and butter." - Robert Sietsema