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.”

I got there at 6 pm, but they’d already run out, by 3! Like a moron, I hadn’t even bothered to call ahead. Actually, I think I was just dreading the possibility that they’d be sold out already, or that there’d be a single bowl or two left and I’d have to drive like a neurotic madman. At any rate, they were completely out of their 450 bowl allotment (450?! That’s it?!), so Monday’s scheduled appearance has also been canceled, according to the random employee I spoke to. (Call ahead, in case I’m mistaken). Not that I was planning to ditch work and drive back down there again anyway. Or was I?

Oh well. Rameniac: PWNED. After Japan, I probably should lay off the stuff for a while anyway. (~_^)b