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/ramen/ - Ramen and Asian noodle general

Post about the best you've ever had.

>> No.16769817
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A couple years ago, my fiancée’s birthday gift to me was a weekend road-trip to a private-onsen ryokan in Wakayama.
As an additional surprise, she had looked up a place apparently famous for its Wakayama-style ramen, and was going to stop there on our way to the onsen.

So we’re driving through a fairly small mostly-rural town, and she suddenly stops the car and turns around, going in the opposite direction.
A couple minutes later, she does it again, heading back in the original direction. When I asked what’s wrong she said “there’s supposed to be a ramen shop right here!”
But the only thing there was a kinda shit-looking garage.

Turns out it *was* the ramen shop.
It’s a local garage where a father & son fix cars/bikes, and are apparently known for performance-tuning motorcycles.
They also happen to make ramen for a couple hours daily at lunch and dinner, using a corner of the garage with a kitchen & seating. The mom does the serving.

Pic is the amazing Wakayama ramen I had.

>> No.16769833
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>>16769817
I really loved how the tabletops were sheets of clear plexiglass-like stuff, underneath which were old nostalgic photos taken by the husband not long after he opened the garage as a much younger man.

>> No.16769839

there's a local ramen shop that makes an extremely delicious tonkotsu ramen.

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>ramen
Enjoy you early death from CVD.

>> No.16770153

>>16769864
thanks i will

>> No.16770157

Only proper ramen I had was from a place called Meshikou in Columbus.
I liked it. But I only went for the first time not long before covid really took over so I haven't gone since.

>> No.16770167

Some place in Los Angeles. It is run by 2nd generation Japanese kids. They have anime posters all over and the place is blaring music, everyone is drunk including the staff. I wish I knew the spot I had been there two times and just forgot to remember. They scream at you in Japanese when you walk in.

Noodles are fresh and the broth is amazing. Huge menu of options to add from curries to oils and different kinds of eggs.

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The best ramen I've had is from an unpretentious chain in Japan, Ramen Bankara. The broth is unreasonably dark and dense, and the semitransparent surface is rendered fatback. Served with raw garlic and a garlic press. It has a handful of shit reviews for being "greasy", but I like it.

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>>16771042

>> No.16771363

>>16769864
Why is the sodium so high?

>> No.16771374

>>16771363
Because salt is sodium chloride?
And because sodium carbonate is sodium carbonate?

>> No.16771722

>>16771363
>Add seasoning sauce

>> No.16771794

>>16771722
nope no seasoning packet in that bag.
You do know that asians salt their noodles right?

>> No.16771860 [DELETED] 

>>16771794
why is japanese cuisine so hilariously bad?
the main staple dish of nipponland is sushi which is literally just fish on rice
their curry is just watered soup
ramen is just inferior version of authentic Chinese noodles
even instant noodles is taiwanese (Chinese) and not from japan

why could the nips not make a satisfactory cuisine?

>> No.16771887

>>16771860
it's literally just salt and sugar.

>> No.16771945

>>16769692
Your pic was made by a white person, I can tell. You would never get served a bowl of ramen that looked like that in Japan.
>>16769817
>>16769833
Damn, what a good experience that must have been. Getting out to those hidden, local spots are always a great experience. That's the real thing to do on a trip to Japan. The ramen looks great.

>> No.16772379

>1 bite of meat
>1 bite of vegetables if you're lucky
>half an egg
>rest of the meal consists of salt and carbs
Smh

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>>16769692
Please tell me one of you has tried to make the Sundae Ramen Recipe.

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There are some pretty good ramen places outside of Japan as well, namely Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Here's a bowl of ramen I had while I was in Hong Kong. It was like a Seafood?(魚介) broth Tsukemen, the Karaage was really good there as well.

>> No.16772608

>>16771363
>>16769864
Isn't most of the salt in the broth which normally at least only sipped from a bit and not emptied like many westerners tend do it?

>> No.16772611

>>16772608
no, that pack of noodles doesn't come with any powder.

>> No.16772645

>>16771363
>>16771374
>>16772608
Ramen noodles are alkaline noodles. This is usually achieved with something like sodium hydroxide, on top of the salt that's also added.

>> No.16772663

>>16769817
You've told this story before, l've seen it before!

>> No.16773951

>>16771363
Do you eat pasta without boiling it?

>> No.16773961

>>16769864
What the fuck is cvd?

>> No.16773981

>>16769692
I don't remember where my best ramen is from. For the most part they've all (restaurant/kiosk served ramen) been satisfactory, and my only negative experience has been with "tonkotsu ramen". The flavours in tonkotsu clash imo, and make me feel nauseus. Most profesionally served ramen is good, but tonkotsu is not for me.

>> No.16775165

>>16773981
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?

>> No.16775201

Any britbongs in or around sheffield know anywhere doing good ramen? There's fuck all near me far as I've ever seen so my experience of ramen is just nissin, nongshim and samyang instant ramens.

>> No.16775205

>>16775165
I don't have the proper pasta to reply to you.

>> No.16775232

>>16771945
>Damn, what a good experience that must have been
It was far beyond “good”.
Not only did I get to have amazing ramen, but I got to listen to the family story of how the father started the garage because as a HS student he knew he wasn’t university-material, but he could tune an engine “totally asleep and hungover” (his wife’s words).

>>16772663
My apologies, anon.
Unfortunately due to chinkflu, I don’t have any new ramen-roadtrip stories.
If she and I had known I couldn’t enter the country for so long, we would have gotten married last time I was there. We’re currently working to solve that.

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>>16769692
The Tonkotsu ramen at Daikokuya in LA. The Little Tokyo location specifically.

>> No.16775734

>>16769817
Doesn't posting stale copypasta get old? I mean, do you giggle yourself to tears every time you do it? It seems like such a waste. Why not do something original, or have you no personality of your own?