Ready for a change of fare? Check out the global cuisine at these Newport restaurants

It’s early morning and Basil Yu hunches over a tidy prep table, combining meticulously measured amounts of water and salt into a mixer filled with wheat that was stone-milled just over 100 miles from Newport. He’s preparing to make hundreds of springy ramen noodles which, after a complex series of steps, will be ready to nestle gently into hearty bowls of the traditional Japanese noodle soup. It is a process that used to take him 10 hours, but thanks to a new commercial noodle-making machine, it should take him a little less than half that time.