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The hands-down, hottest new restaurant opening at the end of 2015 was Prairie Noodle Shop, the latest manifestation of 124th Street’s burgeoning restaurant milieu, which happily shows no signs of slowing down.

It’s also the splashiest entry in the city’s still-tiny ranks of legit ramen shops. Much as we love our hometown, surfing the Zeitgeist of new (or not so new) culinary trends is not exactly our stock in trade. It’s technically inaccurate to proclaim Edmonton many years behind the curve when it comes to the slurp-i-rific delights of this potentially sublime Japanese noodle. The generally solid Toyko Noodle House on Whyte, for example, has been open for years, along with some bad actors.

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That said, the passion and proclivity of ramen purveyors long evidenced in so many cities across the continent has largely been absent in these parts. You wondered if chef/TV personality David Chang would become a greybeard with grandkids before the global phenom took off here.