2012 ramen papercraft calendar
You want this. You need this. Make your own papercraft ramen stand calendar. As a bonus, you get a yakuza figure. What a way to start the year! via Paperkraft.net
keep boiling japan
Found another video in the Cup Noodle boil Japan campaign. “Keep boiling Japan!” Err…or maybe that should be “Keep boiling, Japan!” See how important a comma can be, boys and girls? via Japan Probe
“boil japan”?!?
It’s bad enough that yoda is shilling for Cup Noodle, but “boil japan”? even for broken English, that’s a bit ominous, isn’t it? via stick a fork in it
sunday ramen links…except it’s not sunday any more
Denver gets ramen for lunch. Ippudo Midtown is revealed. Portland ramen is heating up. Have you read the first ramen-filled issue of Lucky Peach? Flower Boys of the Ramen Shop, “the story of good-looking and unique men and their stories that revolve around the ramen store they run.” Apparently this ramen restaurant serves “pig-fish.” Ramen...
sunday evening links, ramen world domination
See what the chefs at Chuko in Brooklyn (they used to work at Morimoto!) make with a pack of instant noodles. More choices for ramen in Brooklyn, including a Ramen pop-up. Hybrid ramen, anyone? Ramen in Wheaton, MD. Ajisen Ramen opens in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. Visit Hapa Ramen in SF, leave with a...
ramen noodle chocolate bar
I’m a bit creeped out by this video…yet somewhat intrigued. Ramen Noodle chocolate bar! via the Village Voice
raccoons love ramen
From the article “Tests show that raccoons prefer chicken ramen over a variety of fruits and vegetables. Traps that contain ramen are far more likely to capture raccoons than traps that use other forms of bait.” Hmm, apparently, I was a raccoon in a past life. via Japan Probe
nama ramen factory
In this video, National Geographic Traveler reporter Andrew Evans visits a nama ramen factory and shows us how it’s made. Click over to his blog after the video for much more info on his Japanese adventures.
sunday evening links
Whew, it’s been a busy few weeks for ramen news… A new ramen called Soup for S****—what th–?! The Ramen Rater has hit his 500th review and he’s still going strong! L.A.’s Tsujita is finally open, but they’re not serving ramen yet. And Ikemen makes its Hollywood debut. via Huffington Post West Covina now has...
mitsuwa hokkaido fair
You know the drill, folks! Asameshi Maeda Honten is back with a shoyu ramen and a limited edition niku (ramen). Sounds interesting. Available at Mitsuwa Torrance this Thursday through Sunday 9/15 to 9/18. Chicago’s next the following week Thursday through Sunday 9/22 to 9/25. Ramen Kagetora makes their debut appearance with a miso ramen and...
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 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...
how to *really* make ramen…
…lots and LOTS of ramen. If anyone wants to start their own instant ramen factory, you can start by ordering this ramen-making machine featured in the video. via Gizmodo, thanks to Len.
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