the ramen blog & other goodies!

Remember the ramen bath? Now you can bring your ramen bath accessories on your next visit. Soap up with Ramen Soap and wash up with a Cup Noodles Ramen Sponge: Takara Tomy is coming out with soap and sponges packaged as instant and cup ramen! They’ll only be available in Japan, so those of us stateside will probably need to settle for using a brick of instant ramen as a loofah…um…if you do, let us know how that works out…

via Akihabara News

Have you been to Wonton Forest? Have you heard of Sapporo-Ya? How about Yukino Ya Ramen. There must be some sort of bad luck associated with this place, because Yukino Ya is the 3rd restaurant to be at this location in the past year. I happened to be in the area a week ago during a major storm and was excited to have a new ramenya to try out on such a cold, wet day. Read the rest of this entry →

Ramen isn’t just the 100-pack-for-a-dollar starving college dorm food you think it is. It’s a foodie obsession that’s increasingly popular and increasingly gourmet. Read all about the ramen “renaissance” by writer Lina Goldberg, writing for the popular webzine Splice Today. And no, I’m not just plugging it because this humble blog is mentioned…well, ok…maybe I am just a teeny tiny bit biased…

Ladies and gentlemen…I am a moron. Thanks to a brilliantly snafu’d server setting, I made it impossible for anyone who emailed me directly over the past few months to actually reach me. The Contact Form actually worked fine, so some of you may be scratching your head, thinking “but you did reply to me.” Well guess what? If you replied to my reply, I didn’t get it…until now.

So I offer my sincerest apologies to anyone who thought I was being even less responsive than my usual too-busy self. I think I’ve recovered all the emails, and I’ll reply to them ASAP. If you’ve emailed me in the past few months and you want to make extra sure I got it, please feel free to try again via the Contact Form for now. I should have this straightened out within a few days at most.

Instant ramen…creating jobs in America! Let’s hear it for Maruchan!

If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you might’ve noticed that fans of the now unavailable Maruchan tomato ramen are a fanatical bunch. And now, they’re organized! Join them on the Facebook group: Bring Back Maruchan Tomato Ramen!

Join Anarchic Ramen on his quest to create his own ramen…from scratch!

Not only does the latest issue of Maxim feature an entire article on ramen, fellow ramen blogger Go Ramen! gets a shout out (in the dead-tree version of the article only).

The most popular Japanese fast food chain in China is…Ajisen Ramen!

The wife and I were driving around, doing some last minute shopping, when we heard some stunning news on the radio: Brittany Murphy passed away this morning. “What?!? Did we hear right? The Ramen Girl?” While no one on the radio, and probably no one in the news will ever mention the Ramen Girl as one of the movies Brittany starred in, that’s how she’ll be remembered in this household. Thank you for bringing ramen into the American consciousness and thank you for the hours of entertainment you’ve provided in all your movies. Rest in peace.