😳🍜 Boston’s hottest noods just dropped

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👀 What’s on tap today:

Up first…

If there’s one thing wintry weather puts us in the mood for, it’s hot noods. For this month’s edition of small biz telephone tag, we asked local soup stars where they like to slurp. Spoiler: Everything contains noodles. <3

Here’s what they said: 

🍜 Pagu loves Yume Ga Arukara. Michelin-approved Pagu owner Tracy Chang knows a good noodle when she sees one: It’s gotta be fresh, with a “nice bite and chew.” And Yume Ga Arukara’s brothy udon bowl with beef and chili oil is really good. “You could close your eyes and you would be in Japan,” she said. Every time Chang goes, she gets four: One for her, two for her loved ones, and one to eat the next day.

❤️ Yume Ga Arukara loves WakuWaku Ramen. Patience is the key ingredient in a good noodle dish, according to Yume’s GM Wilson Garcia. He looks for depth of flavor in the broth and hand-pulled noodles, both of which “can only be found through hours of patience.” WakuWaku’s ramen delivers on both. He said you can “never go wrong” with the Tonkotsu ramen, with creamy pork broth.

🥘 Waku Waku loves Ganko Ittetsu Ramen. Yes, noodles are important and all, but for Waku Waku owner Henry Wong, it’s all about what they’re swimming in. If the broth isn’t being boiled for “10 to 16 hours … it will taste like an instant ramen, like you buy them from the store,” he said. But despite Wong’s high soup standards, after some cajoling, he conceded that Ganko Ittetsu’s ramen makes the cut. “They boil it for a long time,” he said.

😋 Ganko Ittetsu Ramen loves Miraku Boston. If you’re sensing a broth theme here, you’re right. When Ganko Ittetsu server Lily Hall is looking for a good bowl of noods, her main criteria is “different layers of flavor” in the soup, as well as a bouncy, fresh noodle that adds a “contrasting texture.” Miraku can do both, particularly with its spicy miso ramen, where the flavorful miso broth gets a dash of brightness from the spice. 

💔 Buuuut Miraku left us on read, so we walked down the street to Lan Feast. Not to be dramatic, but Lan’s thick, chewy chili oil noodles would be part of Gia’s last meal. As for manager Maggie Lee, Lanner Noodles is her fave spot in the city. Why? Their noodles are “hand-pulled fresh, just like ours, and they taste absolutely delicious.” You can literally watch them do it here. Her order: Mushroom crisp bites and stir-fried chicken noodles.

🎨✨ Explore the print technology that changed Indian pop culture, religion, and society. “Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal” is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibition spotlights how artists in 19th-century Calcutta used new printmaking tech to totally reinvent devotional art — brighter, bolder, and made for the masses. It’s the first exhibition of its kind in the U.S., featuring 100+ works spanning prints, paintings, sculpture, and textiles. Bonus: the MFA is one of only two American museums that collects this material. Get tickets now. 

❄️ Boston’s snow dilemma: To dump, or not to dump? This weekend’s blizzard brought Boston’s seasonal snow tally over 60 inches for the first time since 2015’s “Snowmageddon,” which begs the question: Where exactly will it all go? The answer: Not Boston Harbor. Although dumping snow in the harbor is technically allowed in some emergency situations, all 4,620 cubic yards-and-counting of Boston’s removed snow is going directly to the city’s 14 snow farms, according to Mayor Michelle Wu. See: This giant one in Dorchester. $20 says it’s not fully melted till July.

🤝 Is your sidewalk clear after the storm? Thank your neighbors. On Monday, 16 groups of volunteers across Boston gathered for snow shoveling meetups in their neighborhoods. The groups worked to clear spots that raised accessibility concerns during the last storm, specifically crosswalks, curb ramps, and sidewalks. The meetups are one prong of the city’s revised snow removal strategy after last month’s fumble (see: 6,000+ 311 complaints), which so far, seems to be working. “I'd say that the city has done a better job,” one volunteer told WBUR.

🎸 Great news for the stomp and holler girlies: Mumford & Sons is coming to Fenway this summer! The band behind 2000s indie bangers like “I Will Wait” and “Little Lion Man” will stop in Boston on June 22 as part of their Prizefighter tour, with Lord Huron and Dylan Gossett opening. They’ll join Fenway’s country-and-folk-heavy summer concert lineup, including Noah Kahan, Chris Stapleton, and Tim McGraw. Wanna go? Tickets drop on Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. You can grab them here!

☕ Breaking: Dunkin’ has iced coffee buckets. Word on the street — OK, TikTok — is that the coffee chain was selling 48-ounce "beverage buckets” of iced coffee, refreshers, and lattes at select Mass. and New Hampshire locations. For context, that’s about 16 ounces more than a large, and quite literally requires a handle to carry around. Adding to the intrigue: Though the buckets are apparently sold out, Dunkin’ is keeping quiet about where they were offered, and whether they’d return. So far, Boston’s closest confirmed bucket is ~2 hours away in Amherst.

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We know Boston runs on Dunkin’. But apparently, so does South Korea. Food influencer Josh Slavin recently gave us a peek inside Dunkin’ Wonders, the country’s extremely bougie flagship Dunkin’. Let’s just say, it’s worlds away from the likes of Back Bay Station.

For starters, it looks more like a spaceship than a Dunkin’, with a clean, modern design, giant glass windows, and rows of picture-perfect doughnuts (we’re 99% sure this place has never seen a strawberry frosted with sprinkles). Flavors include corn pizza bagel, matcha, and even scotch egg, which has an actual egg inside it. 

Unsurprisingly, the doughnuts are pretty good, though we can’t help but wonder: Without the grumbles of the Boston accent, groups of retirees, or a drive thru … is it really a Dunkin’ at all?

— Written by Gia Orsino and Emily Schario

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