A Ramen Champion event in Singapore. Photo: Handout

MANILA – Filipinos, prepare your taste buds – six ramen restaurants from Japan will be serving their best dishes here as they compete in the Philippine edition of the Ramen Champion battles.

Dubbed as “the biggest ramen food theme park in Asia,” Ramen Champion has been held in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong, with each event featuring six popular ramen restaurants in Japan.

Bryan Tiu of IFoods, the brand behind homegrown restaurants such as Wafu, Stackers Burger Café and Tokyo Café, will be bringing the competition to the Philippines with the help of Ko Nakagawa and Koki Matsuda of Ramen Champion Singapore.

A statement by IFoods sent to ABS-CBNnews.com said the Philippine edition of Ramen Champion will be held in an unspecified 650-square meter arena in Manila by the end of 2013.

The ramen will be judged based on sales and customer votes, it added.

The six ramen restaurants currently featured in the official website of Ramen Champion include Gantetsu in Sapporo (said to be the birthplace of miso ramen), Muso, Bario, Buta God and Menban Yamagishi Kazuo from Tokyo, and Ikkousha from Hakata (home to the tonkotsu or pork bone ramen).