careful… your bowl may be bugged!
Posted by rameniac at 03:57 AM | 24 Oct 2008
So I just arrived in Tokyo, and what do I find? Bug repellent in everybody’s favorite Nissin Foods brand Cup Noodle! Apparently, 500,000 packages of instant ramen have been recalled due to paradichlorobenzene contamination as of today. And there I was, standing at Lawson’s Station, contemplating which newfound flavor to buy (Manhattan or New England Clam Chowder Cup Noodle, anyone?) Looks like I may have to take a rain check on those. But it doesn’t end there. Myojo has announced a recall of its own. Does that mean that these rival instant noodle makers source the same dried stuff? I’m sure that’s the real question on peoples’ minds in light of all this. Momofuku Ando can’t be the only doing backflips in his grave right about now.
source: I’m lazy and it was just on the Yahoo! main
pleased to meet me? ooh yeeah!
Posted by rameniac at 04:01 AM | 16 Sep 2008
aw, c’mon. indulge me. this is as close as i’m ever gonna get to having peter saville design my album cover...
Ever wanted to meet the “rameniac”? Well, um… now you can?! 
In a desperate attempt to ride my fifteen minutes of fame into the sixteenth minute, yours truly will be appearing at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday the 28th of this month. I’ll be guesting on a panel entitled “Feed Your Muse: Food, Creativity, and Writing,” alongside Marilyn Friedman, Jonathan Gold (yes, that one), and Laraine Newman and moderated by KCRW’s Evan Kleiman in conjunction with Writing Pad.
Apparently, there will be a signing as well, and since I don’t exactly have a book out (yet!), feel free to bring your empty ramen packages, love letters, record contracts, or exposed body parts and I’ll be more than thrilled to sharpie ‘em all up. Heck, I’ll sign anything, even that sandpaper first edition The Return of the Durutti Column vinyl LP you’ve got laying around. You know, the one, hand-glued by the members of Joy Division, that brings the party to a grinding halt. Actually, if you gave that to me to sign, I’d just run off with it. The food fight starts at noon in the Writer’s Pavilion. Yeayurh.
they’re baaack…
Posted by rameniac at 07:23 PM | 07 Sep 2008
Has it been a year already? Mitsuwa Marketplace is back with their annual Hokkaido Fair food festival. Regale yourself with the ramen stylings of Asameshi Maeda Honpo,
Sumire, and Santouka over the course of the next two weekends at various Mitsuwa Marketplace locations throughout the United States.
The schedule is as follows:
| Asamesh Maeda Honpo |
9/11(Thu) - 9/14(Sun)
9/18(Thu) - 9/21(Sun) |
Costa Mesa
New Jersey |
| Sumire |
9/11(Thu) - 9/14(Sun)
9/18(Thu) - 9/21(Sun) |
Torrance
Chicago |
| Santouka |
9/18(Thu) - 9/21(Sun) |
San Jose |
For all you Bay Area noodlers, the Mitsuwa website touts Santouka as having the
"#1 ranking in L.A." (gee, I wonder
where they got that idea? ^^) Asameshi Maeda and especially Sumire should just open permanent U.S. branches already and be done with it. The world would be a better place for sure.
these are pretty much self-explanatory, but…
Posted by rameniac at 01:10 PM | 20 Aug 2008
Chalk it up to the Celestine Prophecy or something, but today I received
two different tips about two different ramen vending machines! I was just talking to my bud Eddie over at
Deep End Dining about these. Invasion of the ramen-dispensing robots? There's one nestled in a boba shop in the heart of Los Angeles' Koreatown. At four dollars a pop, it's apparently quite the rip-off...
sources: deependdining and riotrepublic
got flash game?
Posted by rameniac at 05:40 AM | 07 Aug 2008
Here’s a ramen cooking flash game that I stumbled upon during the night’s bout of insomniac web surfing. I can’t typically be bothered to read directions and I’m definitely not much of a cook, so I just wound up moving a superflat-inspired piece of shrimp around the screen for thirty seconds. There’s some oddly soothing lullabye-type music, however. Maybe it’s time to go to bed after all…
