ikemen at arms

by rameniac | 26 Aug 2011

Ikemen is now open. "What?" you say. The hot new thing to hit the Los Angeles slurping scene is a heavyweight that has thus far flown low, low, low under the radar, the product of one Sean Nakamura, yes, that one, he of Ramen California fame. When disquieting reports of Nakamura-san's mysterious abdication of the south Torrance throne began making the rounds last month, I was inundated with requests for more information, as if I alone had the inside track to all the noodlings-on in Tinseltown.

rameniac is teh fail. pwned.

by rameniac | 03 Mar 2008

You can’t win ‘em all. Well, let me rephrase that. Every once in a while, you just bite it. Hard. Out of town the past two weeks, I’d pretty much missed out on the bulk of the Mitsuwa Marketplace “Legendary Ramen Festival.” Figuring to hit up the final weekend of the event, in San Diego, I took an (all too) leisurely drive down to Kearny Mesa today. I even brought the rameniac okasan along, who’s afraid to drive the freeway but likes to go wherever she can cajole her offspring into chauffeuring her.

Asameshi Maeda Honten was the only shop on the schedule I had yet to try, and I looked forward to sucking down some bona-fide Asahikawa shoyu ramen. Now, my jetlagged brain must have been on autopilot, because I didn’t even heed my own warning to all you fellow foodies and ramen lovers: “If you’re gonna go, go early.”

noodleheads up

by rameniac | 11 Feb 2008

Big love to rameniac reader Kenneth Murayama, who sent in this tip about Mitsuwa Marketplace's upcoming food event - a "Legendary Ramen Fair"! Over the course of the next three weeks, Southern California noodlers will soon have the chance to sample three of Japan's top ramen shops! The only tragedy in all of this is that I'll be out of town for most of the while, although I'll be in Japan, so I can't complain too much ^^. Anyway, here's the rundown. Go early, for they tend to run out at these things!