I don't get Ramen
We ate some Japanese over at Rai Rai Ken a few nights ago, and as I've done a few times already, I ordered some delicious looking ramen (Miso Ramen with some pork and bean sprouts) in hopes of figuring out why a lot of people find it appealing.
I still don't get it. Ramen is certainly not repulsive in any way, it just seems a bit, uhm, pedestrian. It's noodles with some meat, corn, and some veggies thrown in, and it is very unspectacular if you put it that way. But I'm sure more than a few find the dish tasty, and the amount of variety of ramen on most Japanese restaurants validate the fact that I'm missing out on something. This baffles me, is there a particular type of ramen that screams yumm? Am I an uncultured Neanderthal who has no appreciation in the finer points of ramen? Or am I dead on in hating on noodle soup, it being totally overrated and being something only Naruto could love?
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And Ramen... it's food, it's cheap and it's working! This is why it's nice. And "variaties" is about not to be boring to consume it every other day. I like it.
on November 13, 2007 01:06:38
Thanks Andrey, yeah trackback spam got out of control, and I was having internet connection problems here so I was not able to update and check on the site for awhile, I should've known better than to disable moderation on trackbacks. :)
I suppose I've overlooked the appeal of ramen, it certainly is cheap, and it was never meant to be anything more than noodles with stuff in it, heh.
on November 13, 2007 20:08:14
Haha, I love ramen too, I think it has it’s reputation just because of the group of people that eat it, In poland, my country, we have many dishes that all the parts of society eat, but they have their own reputation, sometimes undeserved.
on June 18, 2009 05:29:52
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