Best Japanese soup with nothing disgusting floating in it

Too many Japanese restaurants serve soup laden with unidentifiable and revolting body parts from exotic sea creatures that look like something Jeff Goldblum vomited up in The Fly. But not Sushi Express, in Brookline between Coolidge Corner and Audubon Circle. Sushi Express's seaweed-udon soup is simplicity defined: a mild broth, a sizable portion of chewy udon noodles, and greens, with some red-hot chili pepper on the side. Period. No eyeballs, tentacles, or anything that looks like them.

The bean curd-udon soup is pretty damn good, too. And they've got Fresca! What more could you want?

Sushi Express, 1038 Beacon Street, Brookline, (617) 738-5658.