Hotspot = 流行っている場所
Hot = 熱い、流行ってる。これは何だか日本語と使い方が似ていますね。
The place to be for ramen = ラーメンだったらここだろ、なニュアンスです。
例:
Where's the hotspot for ramen near your neighborhood?
(君の近所だとどの辺に美味しいラーメン屋さんがあるの?)
Don't you know the place to be for good tonkotsu ramen is in Fukuoka?
(本格的なとんこつラーメンを食べるには福岡に行かなきゃいけないんだよ、知らなかった?)
ラーメンはインスタントが出てから海外でも(特に貧乏学生)食べる事が大分増えたのでramenと言っても伝わりますがnoodle shop(麺屋)とも言ったりします。
Just where I live is famous for ramen...and there are many competing restuarants!
Ramen is a staple food and an essential part of the Japanese diet...Enjoyed all over Japan (and beyond) Ramen is a CHINESE NOODLE DISH originally.
However; over the centuries it has spread trhoughout the world to become a very trendy dish, almost everywhere....
>This area is the best to get your ramen.
This is saying that, that area is the best for ramen.
>This area is a hot-spot for ramen.
-Hot-spot=an area of great activity of a specific type
This area is the best to get your ramen.
ラーメンを食べるのにオススメの場所であることを意味する表現です。
This area is a hot-spot for ramen.
-Hot-spot=特定の種類の活動をするのによい場所を意味します。
There are so many good Ramen restaurants here you are spoilt for choice.
A colloquial way of saying somewhere is a good region for something specific is to say it is "(something)-central" So in this instance you would say "Ramen-central" but you could use it to describe anywhere where there is a large amount of something.
If somewhere is well-known for something specific you can say "This area is famous for..."
Another English idiom is to say you are "spoilt for choice" which means there are so many good places to choose from you may find it hard to know where to eat.
どこかが特定の何かのために良い地域であることの口語表現は"it is (something)-central"です。(かっこにはその何かが入ります) したがってこの場合は"Ramen-central" と言うことができますが、何かがたくさんある地域全てを説明するために使うことができます。
どこかが何か特定のもので有名である場合は"This area is famous for..."(この地域は...で有名です)と言うことができます。
そのほかのイディオムは"spoilt for choice"と言うことです。これは良い選択肢がとても多く、どこで食べるか決めることを難しく感じるかもしれないという意味です。
We can either say that a certain place is either popular or famous for ramen to express that the whole area is known for it. We can also use the phrase, "hotspot," to express that its a place people often go for something due to its popularity.