blogger fined and jailed over a…noodle review?! uh oh…
Ok, so it happened in Taiwan, but… “The Taichung branch of Taiwan High Court on Tuesday sentenced a blogger who wrote that a restaurant’s beef noodles were too salty to 30 days in detention and two years of probation and ordered her to pay NT$200,000 (roughly US$7k) in compensation to the restaurant.” Apparently, the blogger...
ramen pops up at the breadbar again
The BREADBAR is doing it again! Chef Noriyuki Sugie, one of the chefs responsible for the first ramen pop-up at L.A.’s BREADBAR, is back with Ramen Bull. This time, all the gourmet ramen are 100% beef-based and MSG-free. On the menu are: Short Rib Ramen $14 Oxtail Ramen $16 Beef Tongue Ramen $14 Spicy Ramen...
ramen is…racist?
Hey! We’ve been linked on HuffPo! On an article…called…ramen…is…racist?? Those of you in the know have probably heard the terms shina soba, which predates “ramen.” “Shina” came to be regarded as a slur against China. “…to eat shina soba in those years was to symbolically gobble up China itself. As China represented the empire’s biggest...
ramen review: ranchan ramen – orange county, ca
Specialty food trucks are all the rage, and finally there’s a ramen truck in OC. Billing themselves as “The first Ramen on wheels in OC,” Ranchan Ramen has been on the road for just under 2 months. It’s hard to miss their big pink truck with their ramen-slurping pig. I trotted up to the truck...
ramenya opening: washington DC
Toki Underground is now open for ramen and more. (Actually, I got their e-mail over a month ago. My fault for being so late.) The ironically named (they’re upstairs above what looks like a pub) specializes in tonkotsu ramen, and they also have a vegetarian option. The design and layout of the place (not to...
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