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the ramen blog & other goodies!
Most Americans know ramen only in the 5000-pack for a buck instant variety and as “starving college student food.” But ramen is so much more. Read more...
bowl/cup ramen

ramen rating: gattsu men

Whew! Garlic garlic garlic. The noodles are average and kind’a limp. The soup is so-so and garlicky. Lots of little pieces of thin-sliced garlic. Actually, the garlic flavoring is pretty mild. Pretty boring ramen overall. Be prepared to smell like garlic when you’re done. I give it a 6.

ramen rating: kentaro

This ramen is not bad…not bad at all! The noodles are chewy, and the soup is mild but flavorful. It’s a “chicken flavored shoyu” soup base. The meat, if you can call it that, is wafer-thin mystery meat with a funky coarse texture. Overall I give it a 7.

ramen rating: hokkaido

hmm…a potato ramen from hokkaido…and yep, there’re 3 chunks of potatoes inside, which melted(?) by the time i finished eating…interesting…the potatoes aren’t bad…the soup is so-so…the noodles are flat and kind of curly, reminiscent of nissin cup o’ noodle noodles, which isn’t necessarily bad…just not that great…i give it a 6

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very…ordinary but in a decent way. the meat is the typical poor excuse for a sliver of meat in these instant ramens…but it’s…slightly…spicy? …iiiiiiinteresting…well it’s not great but it’s not bad. it gets a 5.

ramen rating: chabuya

i believe this is supposed to be based on the ramen from this ramen store. at first, this tasted pretty good. skinny noodles, which i’m not too crazy about, but not bad, and the tonkotsu soup was very fragrant. the soup is a bit milder than the other tonkotsu ramens i’ve had. overall it wasn’t...

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tonkotsu-shoyu soup…i think the instant noodles that’re tonkotsu based are all pretty flavorful…yeah, i probably should’ve realized it earlier…this one has good soup and good noodles…the meat brings it down though…chewy and veiny…i give it a 7…8 without the meat.

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wow…this one’s nice…so fragrant you can smell it from 10 feet away…it’s a black sesame oil tonkotsu soup. very very flavorful. even though i usually prefer a shoyu soup base to the tonkotsu type, this one is great! i give it a 9!

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cute packaging and cool flower-shaped fish cakes can’t hide the fact that this ramen isn’t very good. the meat is the typical paper-thin flavorless type. the soup was alright though. it gets a 6.

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argh…can’t remember…i *think* it was pretty good…oh wait…i think the noodles were good, but the soup was just so-so. um…6 out of 10?

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interesting container…there’s a built-in strainer so you can cook the noodles, dump the water, then put in fresh water for the soup. neato! the meat was yummy…juicy and melts in your mouth…too bad the noodles and soup were just so-so…without meat it gets a 5…with the meat it gets a 6.

ramen rating: ganko oyaji

really average ramen, but it was on sale for 99 cents!. it’s got bits of seaweed, corn, green onion, and sesame seeds. it gets a 5.

ramen rating: wakame

lots and lots and lots of seaweed…but otherwise just decent. soup is mild and just a tiny bit spicy. noodles are very average. i give it a 6 (7 if you really like seaweed!)

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another tonkotsu soup based ramen…this time the *flavor *is ok but kind’a bland and the soup powder didn’t dissolve too well. the noodles are the thin kind and boring. it’s not *bad*…just not particularly good. i give it a 5…plus a bonus half point for having the incredibles on the cover.

ramen rating: takumi

look!! that’s real meat in the noodles!!! and seaweed, and shinachiku, and other goodies. wow…the shoyu flavored broth is soooo good! …too bad the noodles are only so-so…agh…i give it an 8!

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hmm…this is a *garlic* ramen…very very garlicky…yummy soup…not bad…i give it an 7


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