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"First opened in Fukuoka, Japan in 1985, the Hakata-style ramen shop came to the U.S. in 2008 and has since opened locations from Thailand and Australia to Paris, France; up north it opened two locations in the San Francisco Bay Area with a third planned in Cupertino. Ippudo is clearly trying to become the biggest ramen restaurant chain in the world by picking key global cities to expand to." - Matthew Kang