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陣家 ramen jinya: studio city blockbuster

by rameniac | 14 Jul 2010

Had Ramen Jinya opened a year or two earlier, I might have been one happy slurper. As a former employee of a major Hollywood studio (yes, I was in “the industry”), I spent a good number of lunch hours bemoaning the fact that there was simply no good ramen -actually, no ramen at all, to be had in the Studio City/North Hollywood area. Sure, there were plenty of sushi shops along Ventura Blvd’s “sushi row”, but when it came to noodles, even the nearest pho joint was miles away.

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resolutions over ramen

by rameniac | 01 Jan 2007

Ringing in the new year at Hakata Shin-Sen-Gumi has become something of a Rameniac tradition. Open until 5am on New Year’s Eve, the foremost purveyor of Hakata-style tonkotsu ramen in Southern California transforms into a rowdy after-hours collective of off-duty employees and Japanese expats. This year was no exception, as a few friends and I made our drunken, post-partying way down to Gardena somewhere in the neighborhood of 2am. By the time we were seated and eating, it was nearly 3 in the morning. Happy 2007 everyone!!!

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the associated noodle press

by rameniac | 15 Jul 2008

A few weeks back, journalist Adam Goldman interviewed me for an Associated Press article about the increasing popularity of ramen in the U.S. As I no longer work for a newspaper and don't have access to the AP database, I wasn't sure how I'd find the resultant article. Thankfully, site member tampopo put it up in the rameniac forums! Here's a link, courtesy of the Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Hopefully, the day will come when every small town in America has a ramen shop (or two, or eight) to call its own!

nano noodling

by rameniac | 29 May 2008

Now I've seen everything. Faithful rameniac reader Delicious J sent in this tip about the world's smallest bowl of ramen, a nanometer-sized portion of ethanol soup and nanotubular noodles in a silicon "bowl" carved by professor Masayuki Nakao using a using a particle beam at the University of Tokyo. The bowl is apparently 1/100th the width of a strand of human hair. "Kaedama kudasai!" I'm gonna need extra noodles with that. And probably a side of gyoza.

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