D.I.Y. noodling (A.K.A. getting yer pull on)

by rameniac | 15 May 2008

I get quite a bit of mail from people asking for ramen recipes. However, most of the ones I've come across are for the soup only, and you're supposed to add prepackaged noodles after the fact. This one, forwarded me by my buddy Neveaire, details how to make ramen noodles from scratch. Is it a good recipe? Does it suck? I wouldn't know, because my cooking skillset consists of ripping open foil packets and waiting three minutes. Barring having any authentic kansui to take the place of the eggs, the author seems to know what he or she is doing, so I say go for it. Ironically, the soup in this recipe is the afterthought. "Chicken stock and shoyu?" I'm also digging the arabiki sausages as toppings. I used to use Vienna sausages in college, but whatevs (~_^)b.