ramen rating: torigara shoyu
This chicken shoyu ramen is pretty average. Skinny noodles. So-so soup. Corn, onions, and a slice o’ the traditional mystery meat. It gets a 5.
ramen cell phone danglers
shoyu! tonkotsu! chashu! and more! collect ‘em all!
ramen rating: wan tan men
Wan tan men with shoyu flavored soup. And piggy naruto (fish cake slices)! The noodles are so-so. They soup is decent. And there’s a few pieces of won ton and assorted goodies. It’s not the best ramen in the world, but it’s fun! It gets a 7.5 (bonus half point for the piggies).
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This is a white tonkotsu ramen. Once again, the obligatory mystery meat. The noodles are TOUGH. I actually thought I undercooked it but I followed the instructions exactly. Even after I put it in the microwave for another 30 seconds, it was still pretty tough to chew. Not only that, but the noodles were tasteless....
ramen rating: ezo noodle cafe – irvine, ca (closed)
sorry i don’t have a picture. and actually, the last time i went to ezo was over a year or two ago. this is the ezo noodle cafe in irvine, at the tustin marketplace. so why am i rating it? because it’s the worst ramen i’ve ever had. it’s even worse than most instant ramen...
ramen rating: chicken ramen
The “original” Nissin chicken ramen. And it has…holy cow! There’s a chunk of styrof–I mean egg custardy thing in it! How cool is that! The noodles have a slightly burnt taste to it, but decent. Nothing extraordinary. The soup isn’t bad. Overall it’s just decent. But I gotta give an extra point for the egg...
ramen rating: king car
Well, it’s not *horrible*…but that’s about the best thing i can say about it. Skinny tasteless noodles. Bland soup. It comes with some seaweed bits and such. I guess it gets a 3.
ramen rating: menya kitakata
Mmm…back to the shoyu ramens. This one’s not bad. Slightly wider and chewy noodles. Soup’s decent. There’re bits of onion and maybe 3 whole pieces of shinachiku, and the obligatory mystery meat. Overall it’s pretty decent. It gets a 7.
ramen rating: hirauchimen
This is different. Hirauchimen to dashisyoyu…flat-made noodles with pork bone shoyu soup…more or less. (Trivia: the kanji for pork in Japanese is the kanji for dolphin in Chinese!) This was pretty good! It doesn’t taste like a “typical” ramen. The noodles are flat and chewy and the soup is pretty tasty and rich. There’s a...
“space ramen!”
Ok, now i can live in space! Original press release in Japanese
ramen in the news
mmmmm…double soup! there was an article recently in the times uk that has it all…revenge…betrayal…greed…and…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: kouraku – los angeles, ca
drove all the way up to little tokyo for this. our first choice was daikokuya, which got rave reviews on assorted web sites, but unfortunately it’s closed temporarily on sundays. we ordered the shoyu ramen with a half order of chahan (fried rice), and an order of gyoza. the atmosphere was ok…nothing really special. the...
cell phone straps
This Japanese web store sells all sorts of cell phone accessories, including the really cool miniature bread straps above. For the Japanese impaired, here’re some of the more interesting cell phone straps: mini cell phones! Put a cell phone on your cell phone! hello kitty as food!? bread burgers & sandwiches pasta sushi iv drips!!!...
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