/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17799723]

Is it worth paying for restaurant ramen?

[Anonymous No.17799738]

>>17799723
If you can't into Ramen.

[Anonymous No.17799747]

>>17799723
Is it worth paying for anything?

[Anonymous No.17799756]

The only way you can make ramen like in your pic at home is to buy a bunch of shit you're never going to use in any other recipe, unless you're a freak about Asian cooking. So if you just want a damn bowl of ramen without spending a bunch of money on obscure ingredients then yes.

[Anonymous No.17799768]

>>17799723
Only if you like ramen and don't want to make it at home and can afford it. Otherwise I'd reconsider.

[Anonymous No.17799774]

>>17799723
I don't buy fucking potato chips when I go to a restaurant.

[Anonymous No.17799783]

>>17799723
Are you a faggot?
Do you enjoy having a cock in your ass that fills your butthole with jizz?
Because your question is as retarded as that sort of faggot shit.

[Anonymous No.17799838]

>>17799756
This, basically. The process to make the broth, for example, is highly streamlined at a restaurant when they are making dozens of portions at a time. When you are literally only making one or two portions, you'll end up doing a lot more work, spending a lot more on ingredients, for probably a worse result.

[Anonymous No.17800183]

>>17799723
Yes. Ramen and pho are the things that are always worth getting at a store rather than making it at home unless you plan to eat a ungodly metric shitton of ramen the entire week. The amount of ingredients and time just doesn't make it worth it to make only 1-4 servings worth.
Hell, even if you half all the ingredients, the time investment and effort still doesn't make it worth it and risk making a bland broth rather than just going somewhere that specialize in it

[Anonymous No.17800351]

>>17799723
no.
maruchan instant is the only ramen you need.
anything beyond that is silliness.
also, you're supposed to drain the broth and eat the noodles as pasta, not soup.

fucking weirdos, man.

[Anonymous No.17800357]

>>17799774
this anon gets it.
ramen is a snack food, not a meal.

[Anonymous No.17800437]

>>17799756
>>17800183
There is def truth to this, in that the ingredients u'll be using are have pretty much single uses. You can go with this thought and just buy ramen at restaurents, and there'd be nothing wrong with that
But in my own experience this isn't THAT bad. First off, I bet a lot of things in ur kitchen are almost always used for one thing only; like, you're NEVER combine ur chips with anything or you'll SELDOM use ur milk for other than drinking or cereal. Not everything you buy has to be god-tier multi-use like eggs or oil/butter.

Honestly, for a simple ramen, you don't need to buy THAT much. Miso paste comes in bulk so you can keep it in the back of the fridge for a long time and take out whenever u want ramen. Same thing with seaweed in the cupboard. You gotta already have something spicy in ur home. I have chili flakes and oil so if i wanted i could make some chili oil. Or just use jalapenos or wtv is more common for you. Or dont use spicy at all. I think everyone should have green onions in their fridge, but even still that and the special mushrooms, you can get for one time use at ur H-mart or wtv. Specialized oil are always nice investment to keep in ur cupboard for complex flavouring. Broth is simple enough.

Idk man, if you have ur own place, it's not inconceivable to me to actually spent money on bulk (not that bulky) miso paste/cooking seaweed/chili oil or flakes to use whenever, and then like 10$ on mushrooms/green onions every time u want to make ramen. Eggs and broth u prob already have (maybe not broth, but its cheap too).
10$ on green onions and mushrooms.

It's like seasoning; buy only what u need, and then it becomes a future investment

[Anonymous No.17800483]

>>17799723
Yes, if you can find a place that sells a bowl for under 7$.
It's supposed to be a small cheap lunch or late night dish. I'd kill to have a small stall within a few miles that I could walk over to at 20:00~02:00. Or a tiny hole in the wall I could stop at during the return commute. All these places charging 16$ for a bowl keep going out of business because it's not fucking worth it.

[Anonymous No.17800524]

>>17799723
It definitely is if the restaurant does it properly.
One of the best meals I've ever had was a bowl of pork ramen in this dingy corner restaurant, really wish I could make broth like that.

[Anonymous No.17800637]

>>17799723
I went to maybe 20-30 really highly rated places across japan. My wife refuses to go as its extremely expensive costing twice what the best places in japan cost. Really good us places are usually pretty middle of the road and lack the flair of all the regional ramens in japan. Occasionally yeah go but its a scam.

[Anonymous No.17800773]

ramen is not more expensive than restaurant anything anything else

[Anonymous No.17801024]

>>17799723
The way I see it when I eat out I go for things that take time to prepare because time is the thing I lack these days. So yeah a ramen is worth it because doing it at home requires making a proper broth and all that just like eating a pasta dish like carbonara at a restaurant while you can do it in 15 minutes at home isn't worth it in my opinion. It's about how long it would take you to cook it and if you have the equipment to cook it (not everyone has a proper burner for woks for example).

[Anonymous No.17801027]

>>17799723
nope
outside of japan its a cultural food where they brought some japanese cook who didnt fit in their society back there to make it for you
there its just a hot meal that you get in your sarary man lunch break

[Anonymous No.17801034]

>>17800357
>ramen is a snack food
Not really no

[Anonymous No.17801043]

>>17801024
>making a proper broth
because it takes a degree in rocket science to put some bones on slow roast and boil for a couple of hours?

[Anonymous No.17801112]

>>17799723
Locally it's 17 usd for a bowl of tonkatsu. To me, not worth the price preminum. Only weebs and morons would spend that much. The place in question also sells premade beef bowls for 8 usd when it's like 25g of acual beef and 500g of rice.

[Anonymous No.17801129]

>>17799723
if its 15 dollars or less desu. any more is a ripoff

[Anonymous No.17801131]

>>17799756
>eggs
>mushrooms
>green onion
>broth bones
what kind of childlike palette do you have that you don't use that shit anywhere else

[Anonymous No.17801136]

>>17799723
Nah.
It’s essentially a peasant soup, it’s meant to be cheap and easy to make at home.
I make my own, it’s time consuming so I make big batches of broth but it’s better than you’ll find in any restaurant.

[Anonymous No.17801140]

>>17801043
You don’t boil to make a stock you have to simmer, cooklet.

[Anonymous No.17801145]

>>17801131
*palate
Retard.

[Anonymous No.17801220]

>>17801145
based retard

[Anonymous No.17801252]

>>17801145
mutt/10

[Anonymous No.17801360]

>>17799774
Lol because instant ramen amIrite? Rofl tippytopkek xD

Pretending to be retarded is still pretty fucking retarded, faggot.

[Anonymous No.17801374]

>>17801136
>but it’s better than you’ll find in any restaurant.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh anon you so silly

[Anonymous No.17801381]

Yeah. You pay for the novelty if you live outside japan.

[Anonymous No.17801402]

>>17801112
/thread

[Anonymous No.17801414]

>>17799723
Anon, even the japs prefer restaurant/store bought ramen to making it at home.

[Anonymous No.17801418]

>>17801374
Whatever.
Cooklet.

[Anonymous No.17801424]

>>17801418
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Stay silly, anon. It’s what I like about you.

[Anonymous No.17801437]

>>17801131
>palette

[Anonymous No.17801444]

>>17801131
>chashu tare marinated eggs
>shiitake mushrooms
>dashi broth
>la-yu chili oil
>nori
>chashu pork
Get fucked retard, you're so fucking dumb you think your Maruchen with frozen carrots is restaurant-quality

[Anonymous No.17801465]

>>17801043
I have made pho and ramen broth at home many times it really isn’t that hard

[Anonymous No.17801491]

>>17801465
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s difficult.
It’s more that it isn’t worth the time investment. There’s a reason why basically nobody in Japan does homemade ramen.

[Anonymous No.17801494]

>>17801444
>chashu tare marinated eggs
Okay, but how bad would it be to just keep a constant stock of this for a snack?

[Anonymous No.17801572]

>>17801494
You don’t really need to keep a stock.
You just make them as you use them. If I’m doing a really simple ramen at home, I’ll make 2 or 3 eggs, preferably a day before so they can marinate overnight, but you can get some decent flavor in just a few hours.

[Anonymous No.17801573]

>>17801494

Not that guy, but for chashu I just make huge one out of pork belly slab, slice and then freeze portions in baggies. Tare will last a while in the fridge. Eggs take 7 minutes to cook and can be made ahead and kept in shell in the fridge. Just put in the tare whenever you plan to eat (depending on the strength of the tare, even 15 minutes should be enough to impart flavor) or don't season it all and eat as is like more and more restaurants do in Japan.

>>17801491

True but no one has the time really, also stinks up the house/apt. If you don't live anywhere near Japan, I think it can be worth it to make because (at least in the US) every place seems to serve the same watery tonkotsu or miso ramen.

[Anonymous No.17801584]

>>17801491

Also to add. From what I gather living there, people who aren't elderly rarely cook something more complicated than rice, fish, eggs, curry, salad etc.

[Anonymous No.17801605]

>>17800437
>10$ on mushrooms/green onions
What fucking hellhole do you live in where green onions and mushrooms are $10?

[Anonymous No.17801669]

>>17801573
>(at least in the US) every place seems to serve the same watery tonkotsu or miso ramen.
Not sure what part of the US you’re in, but that sucks.
I’ve managed to find some damn good ramen in a number of US cities; on the occasion it’s shitty, it always seemed to be at a place that serves ramen along with a bunch of other stuff.
But a lot of the ramen-only places I’ve tried have been good.
>>17801584
>people who aren't elderly rarely cook something more complicated than rice, fish, eggs, curry, salad etc.
A few of my wife’s friends are amazing cooks, but they’re housewives so they literally cook multiple times daily.
But yeah you’re basically right. It seems most people only cook fancier/complicated things if they’re having guests or it’s a holiday or something.

[Anonymous No.17801680]

>>17799723
yes

[Anonymous No.17803219]

>>17801027
As much as I want to love Japanese food, I can't. Outside of Ramen and Okonomiyaki most of the food has the same flavor. It's not bad by no means but it isn't isn't on my bucket list when I think of foods to try out. Why is Japanese food taste the same?

[Anonymous No.17803228]

I only eat Maruchan because I'm not a chink

[Anonymous No.17803240]

>>17799768
>>17799774
>>17800351
>>17800357
>>17800483
>>17801027
>>17801043
>>17801131
>>17801136
Everybody I responded too is fucking stupid and has never had/eaten/cooked actual ramen before. Reevaluate your lives.

[Anonymous No.17803297]

>water in pot, about three quarters of what the pack says
>Top ramen stock packet in the water, boil
>Throw in mushrooms
>Throw in noodles
>When noodles are close, turn off heat and toss an egg in, let it poach
>Pour in a bowl or eat out of the pot like a savage, either way top it with green onions
Bam, tastes just as good as what you'd have at any ramen shop, fraction of the cost. Anyone who argues with me is coping and seething because they were suckered into paying thirty bucks for the same shit.

[Anonymous No.17803307]

>>17803219
It's definitely the blandest of yella fella cuisine, I swear tempura isn't even salted half the time. I like Japan, I hate china, but I'd rather eat sum dum kitty, velly spicy, over raw fish on rice any time.

[Anonymous No.17803356]

>>17803240
Incorrect. I studied abroad back in undergrad.
If you can't correctly guess which post was mine then you should reevaluate your own life.