August 29, 200817 yr i've been thinking about fucking ramen all day. a nice tasty hot bowl of classic ramen and special pork. i must leave now. i must go here. will get the one pictured at the bottom.
August 30, 200817 yr I always thought it was ray-men, but someone finally corrected me recently. [rah-men]
August 30, 200817 yr I always thought it was ray-men, but someone finally corrected me recently. [rah-men] No, that's
August 30, 200817 yr FYI: Get some Shin Ramyun. It's the best shit ever. woot go korean ramen but I cant eat it anymore, having ate it since i was like 3 to now made me so sick of it
August 30, 200817 yr every time i think of ramen i remember when i was really fucking broke during my second year of university. For me it was my second, third and last year of undergrad and my eighteen months of grad school. Saved me a lot of dough better spent on beer.
August 30, 200817 yr not here. UC is basically in a ghetto, and the slum lords tend to charge just slightly less than the ridiculously expensive dorms. Times have changed I guess. Back then, grad school ghetto living cost half of what the "good" near campus apartments cost, but those good neighborhoods were not nearly as exciting as my neighborhood.
August 30, 200817 yr UC went nuts developing the surrounding area around campus. Some really nice places there where there used to be total shit dive roach houses. Of course, I guess rent skyrocketed.
August 30, 200817 yr i've been thinking about fucking ramen all day. a nice tasty hot bowl of classic ramen and special pork. i must leave now. i must go here. will get the one pictured at the bottom. You've got good taste in ramen, that is one of my favorite places! I'll join you next time. Now I'm hungry!
August 30, 200817 yr Author yup, this place has that affect on folks. my wife now wants some ramen too. tomorrow guess where we're having lunch... it is fantastic -- just ain't the best thing two days in a row if you're trying to shedding unwanted pounds.
August 30, 200817 yr I'm going to have to try yelp to try some local places. Would I just try "Japanese", or is there more to it than that?
September 1, 200817 yr @909. YEH. $10 bucks for a friggin good bowl. The meat there just melts in the mouth. My friend went to Santouka in Shinjuku, at one of the department stores, said it tasted about the same as the one in Costa Mesa mitsuwa. I used to frequent the costa mesa one, back when I still lived in Irvine. Never let me down. -- am not really a fan of Shinsengumi ramen though. Tastes ok...more for the experience/setting. I'm also pretty tired of shin ramyun..went through the instant stuff in high school. Have had too much of it. Every now and then...I do have one of the Nissin sukiyaki flavor. It's basically beef flavor...but a bit better.
September 1, 200817 yr I always thought it was ray-men, but someone finally corrected me recently. [rah-men] ray-men is a different type of noodle. Cold noodles, to be exact.
September 1, 200817 yr Yeah Nongshim Shin Ramyun is a staple as far as package ramen goes... though I can't eat that filth anymore after having spent some time in Japan and pratically eating Ramen every day with some instances of Kokoichi curry... A good bowl of Tonkotsu broth, great noodles and some excellent tender chashu/stewed pork is one of the best meals imaginable. While locally I both dig Santa Ramen (For the excellent Tonkotsu broth and high level in general) and Ryowa for their corn ramen (While this place doesn't really have the rep or taste of Santa Ramen their noodles are very appealing),, I can sadly at best only rate the finest US ramen a ~6. The best thing about Japan is the sheer insane density of ramen shops there.. it's like if you turned every coffee shop in america into a ramen place it'd be comparable to that. Literally every 4 minutes any direction by foot you'll run into a place. Even though the Chinese invented the shit... they certainly haven't taken the mastery to the level the Japanese have. Though to be fair their vein of ramen is very different and they have their own myriad masteries... beef noodle for one. Agh. Long story short. Ramen shop ramen is seriously a good meal and I could live for awhile in Japan eating ramen/curry every day and going to live shows/festivals and buying cds. I did that for awhile in 05 and I want to do it again... sadly I am no longer a student and work Maybe if I do business school or something. Also seafood is filthy and not to be eaten.
September 1, 200817 yr the japanese might have perfected the fresh cooked ramen but the koreans perfected the packaged and cup ramen
September 1, 200817 yr the japanese might have perfected the fresh cooked ramen but the koreans perfected the packaged and cup ramen The former sounds a lot more appealing to me ...
September 1, 200817 yr of course, but when youre not in japan, or in a place where you can get fresh ramen, i can live with korean ramen
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