Tamashii Ramen House opened in the original Midtown location in June 2015, and they were immediately busy. That year was pivotal for OKC's food scene, especially in terms of Asian food, because while the Sebachers were opening Tamashii, Chef Jeff Chanchaleune and 84 Hospitality founder Rachel Cope were rolling out Project Slurp in the Plaza District, a series of pop-up ramen dinners that were wildly popular, and were the basis for what would become Goro Ramen. Restaurant quality ramen was rare before 2015, but as the Sebachers were to learn, OKC was ready for it.

Since then, the couple opened stores in Edmond, Norman, and now W. Memorial Rd, the latter of which is an 8,000-square-foot facility that will eventually be a manufacturing facility and commissary kitchen to service all the current and future Tamashii locations. Yes, as you'll hear in this episode, the plan was always to have multiple locations with a central kitchen serving as the hub, and they have their sights set on West Side and East Side next. Choctaw? Yukon? MWC? How a Missouri farm kid turned military veteran and a student from Okinawa, neither of whom had restaurant experience, ended up with four ramen restaurants with more to come in OKC is a story worth telling. And we also get announcements about their upcoming visiting chef dinners, in which they bring in popular ramen chefs from Japan for five-day events in OKC.