When I first started this site back in 1996, I didn’t even know that ramen shops existed. Now they are in every major city in the US. The town I live in only has about 120,000 people and has no ramen shop. Have you guys ever been to one?
In case you have forgotten, the local student paper in my town has posted a recipe for cooking ramen. It has 3 ingredients, one of which is water, the other two come in the ramen packet.
A mystery customer walked into a ramen shop in Osaka earlier this year and left 1 million Yen (about $11,500) with instructions to buy ramen for kids. CNNGo reports on the follow-through from the ramen shop: A ramen store in Osaka has followed through on the wishes of a mystery customer who left the shop [...]
I pulled the Mama Pork Flavored Ramen out of my Ramenbox tonight and cooked it up. I was interested in this mainly because it was on-top, well, right underneath the onion flavored ramen that came double wrapped. (I am saving that one for when my wife is not home to complain about the smell). Anyway, [...]
Hans from RamenRater.com sent me a note today about his site. Although it’s been up since 2002, I never knew about it! (You guys really need to keep me informed . Anyway, the site is basically a huge list of ramen reviews. Hans has reviewed way more ramen than I have and always has a [...]
Someone sent me a link to this recipe. It is “Hiyashi Ramen”, or chilled noodles, which work great in Vietnam’s 11.5 month long summer. If you happen to be anywhere near Ha Noi, drop by the Fortuna Hotel and try it in person.
For lunch today I dug into the Ramenbox and picked out the Sapporo Ichiban original flavor. I wanted to eat this as a soup, so I started by adding some carrots to the boiling water. While the noodles and carrots were cooking, I chopped some ham and green onions, which I had in the fridge. [...]
Fark.com has come through again with a link about a 70-year old who holds a PhD in noodles. He wrote a book about the subject as well called (in English) “1,300 Years of Noodle Culture in Japan”, but I think it’s only available in Japanese. Read the article, this guy sounds dedicated… “I simply wondered [...]
I was still hungry after dinner so I cooked up some ramen from my Ramenbox. I picked out the Paldo Bibim Men which looked to be spicy and contains, “addition more 8% apple juice in soup”. The noodle brick was larger than the normal one, so I knew that this would be a filling snack. [...]
Yes, just what the title says. I can only imagine the boredom that led to this. From the Toronto Sun Knitter Carissa Browning learned that quickly when she decided to see if she could turn noodles and chopsticks into something unusual. Knitting is her main hobby, says Browning, 27, who lives in a Dallas suburb [...]
Today for lunch I dug through my Ramenbox made my son and the Garlic and Sesame Ramen. This ramen had no seasoning packet as I’d come to expect, but instead had a packet of what I think was soy sauce and another packet of sesame oil with garlic. The noodles had a good consistency and [...]
Today for lunch I had some of the Ramenbox ramen, the instant Paldo Fire Cup and when I got hungry again later I had the poorly named Chlorella “Green Team Cup” ramen. The Paldo Fire Cup was great, it was a good level of spice and the spice stayed on your tongue, but just in [...]
Look what I got in the mail today! I’m going to try this one tomorrow for lunch: I will write up some reviews of these as I try them. I’m especially curious about the large shittake ramen package. PS – The FTC has some BS about bloggers reporting when they review free stuff, so I [...]
The Wall Street Journal has a tasty story about the Retsuden Ramen festival in Tokyo. The festival unfortunately ended today, but it sounds pretty fun. I didn’t quite follow from the story if you could sample anything without buying, it sounds instead like you pay per bowl, so basically it’s like having a bunch of [...]
If you are old like me then you remember back when MTV showed what is called “music videos” (kids, you may need to ask your parents about them). One of the videos featured this guy in a funny hat in a grey room with a sliding floor. This video has basically been taken as-is, dubbed [...]
It seems that jail is like a movie theater in that they know that they can gouge you for the snacks, the good news is that you don’t have to watch Ben Affleck or Nicholas CoppolaCage films in jail most nights. I know that around here (in Colorado), ramen is not 10 cents a pack, [...]
Jimmy from Illinois sent me this note and attached picture today:
I have seen many people with Japanese and Chinese writing on their tattoos. So for the last five years I have wanted to have my own. I bought a package of Ramen noodles from the Oriental store and had it tattooed on my [...]
Cupmen are little plastic guys that sit on the lid of your instant ramen cup and change color when the ramen is ready. They also hold the paper lid down so the steam stays in better. They were released this week at a price of 840 yen, about $9. If you can [...]
Nissin Ramen is releasing a new instant noodle product with one of the best names ever, MEAT KING. This cup is packed with extra meat, specifically beef, chicken, and pork. This was just released and costs around $2 per cup, depending on the exchange rate. I’m not sure you can buy this [...]
My colleague at work “Wild” Bill McCollom sent me this story, but apparently if you eat too much ramen and not enough other stuff, you can get sick. There is no mention as to whether Natural Light offers any complementary nutrition when paired with ramen. Also is this really ground-breaking? Cash-poor students [...]
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