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.
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.
escaping to new york
Posted by rameniac at 06:58 PM | 20 Mar 2008
Gridskipper scoops rameniac! Just kidding, those guys are alright by me. But alas, I couldn't make it out to New York City this past Tuesday, so you'll just have to take their word for it: Ippudo's sneak preview opening party was a star-studded affair featuring founder Shigemi "the Ramen King" Kawahara and appearances by the trademark akamaru and shiromaru tonkotsu ramen that we've all come to know and lust after. I bet these bowls simply rolled right out of limos trailed by paparazzi, kind of like the M&M dudes. Oh wait, you mean they're not real? Ah, but Ippudo is, and the restaurant will be soft-opening over the next week and a half. Chopsticks at the ready. On your mark, get set... go!
rameniac is teh fail. pwned.
Posted by rameniac at 05:46 AM | 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.”
this has nothing to do with ramen either…
Posted by rameniac at 08:34 PM | 05 Feb 2008
...but, I figured I should put it out there. Infer from it what you will.
