After fleeing Vietnam as a child with his family, Duc Pham learned to cook by watching his mother prepare food for his eight siblings. His restaurant, Blossom A Vietnamese Noodle Shop, is now going on ...

Ramen has come a long way since the five-for-a-buck instant “noodle bricks” of our college dorm days. In Japan, ramen is a comfort food dish consisting of thin wheat noodles curled up in a rich broth.

Aside from its (almost inevitable) location in a mini-mall across from El Segundo’s Standard Station Sports Bar & Grill, Blossom Ramen could easily have been lifted from one of the groovier ...