My wife and I were in New York for a few days, and of course had to check out the New York ramen scene. After spending far too much time slogging through online postings about the best ramen house in NYC, we finally settled on Rai Rai Ken in the East Village for 2 reasons: their specialty is shoyu ramen (most of the other highly touted ramen houses specialize in tonkotsu), and the place just plain looked cool from a picture I found on the net. Read the rest of this entry →
There are so many reasons to be envious of people in Japan…they have the coolest gadgets and gizmos, there’re more ramen stands than Starbucks, and you can get a cold *or* hot drink out of a machine 24 hours a day…and now…you can get ramen in a can!! Canned ramen debuted in Japan in April, and has sold so quickly that the manufacturer decided to produce another TEN TIMES their original run of 6,000 cans! Will ramen-in-a-can ever make it to the U.S.? Probably not anytime soon. But we can only hope, can’t we?
Deja vu…nissin’s shoyu ramen reminded me so much of maruchan’s shoyu ramen that i had to doublecheck the package. Nissin’s noodles are just as good, with a nice firm texture, and the soup is just as good. Just like the maruchan ramen, this is quite good, but not spectacular. It earns an 8.
somehow, all the crazy competitive eaters all seem to be japanese. watch this japanese girl try to eat almost 11 pounds of ramen! (keep in mind that she weighs only 84 lbs!) and stay tuned to the end when you can see the equivalent of what she ate in milk…um…milk?!
There’s a nifty web site called itotally–um…iliketotallyloveit.com where people can submit random cool stuff to be rated and ranked. Apparently, someone submitted our very own ramen lapel pin, where it’s racked up an astounding fifteen “i like totally love it’s”, making it more…err…”like totally loved” than the Star Wars Storm Trooper mug and even Gucci Sunglasses! Woohoo!
BUT…we’re rated below the I Hate Your Kids T-Shirt and Capri Sun. Admittedly, the t-shirt’s kind’a funny, but c’mon…Capri Sun!? Ok, it’s not bad on a hot day, but it’s not even real juice!
So for the three of you who actually bought a ramen pin, thanks for stuffing the ballot box! For all you other ramen fans out there, go vote! With a few clicks, maybe our humble little ramen pin can be as popular as Domo-kun!
I think this is just a repacked version of this. The noodles seem to be a little bit better this time around…maybe…but overall, this instant ramen is still pretty average. The soup is decent but not particularly flavorful, and whatever flavor it has is overwhelmed by garlic and msg. Be prepared to down a large glass of water to chase the msg and garlic flavor from your mouth. It gets the same score as last time: 6 out of 10.
