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Re: RamenHaus

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Post by hnlmorg »

mgaunard wrote: post #9
hnlmorg wrote: post #5

One of the best ramen I’ve ever had is this: https://ramen.haus/united-kingdom/london/cha-mori-ramen-kana... Pre-Covid, this restaurant would regularly have queues down the street to get in. But it’s a small place. Basically the size of someone’s front room. Definitely worth a visit.

Kanada-Ya is a chain with at least 5 locations in London, and while they're fairly good, they're still somewhat focused on Deliveroo-type transactions. It remains quite different from a genuine ramen shop in Japan.

That wasn’t the case pre-Covid when I was talking about. But it’s still good even now.

And it’s obviously going to be quite different from Japanese restaurants because London isn’t in Japan (surprise surprise).

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by Kuinox »

It doesn't rotate on firefox on my linux machine, but does on firefox on my windows.

edit: it looks like my firefox linux have a "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce" set...

So I discovered that setting animation to instant on kde, tell the browser to reduce motions...

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by xg15 »

Is it just me or does the rotation make it less appealing?

I think the problem is, with that kind of lighting, you'd subconsciously expect a lot of movement. ( like in this animation: https://kotaku.com/unity-3d-ramen-noodles-art-artist-tech-vf... )

Obviously, there can't be any movement, because it's just a single photograph - and if that were all, then perception would adjust accordingly.

But because of the rotation, suddenly movement is added back - only, the contents of the photo don't follow it, so the whole thing now looks like a plastic replica of a ramen dish instead of the real thing.

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by Hikikomori »

i_love_cooking wrote: post #19

I have never yet been to Japan, but whenever I visit a big city, I try a ramen shop. To be honest, so far it has been a let down. IDK, I guess maybe I'm expecting too much from a bowl of soup, with noodles and condiments. As a form factor, it's genius. But for the price that it is usually sold at in western cities, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I feel like it has been a bit too overhyped for what it is…

Tried many ramen places in Europe and only two were close to good ramen in Japan. Kodawari in Paris and totemo ramen in Stockholm.

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by Cider9986 »

New York City has great Ramen options. I find yelp rating a lot more indicative of the food quality than Google ratings.

Something that has seriously increased my trust in Yelp:

There's this one restaurant that has always been my favorite within 100s of miles and recently I noticed they had a top 100 in the USA poster for their cuisine on the outside from Yelp. It doesn't mention what rank specifically, just top 100. I look it up and they are in the top 10.

So I really have no idea how Yelp was able to figure out that this restaurant is so good and to rank it in a way I agree with. It could be just based on reviews because it does have close to 5 stars but regardless it's impressive.

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by StilesCrisis »

i_love_cooking wrote: post #19

I have never yet been to Japan, but whenever I visit a big city, I try a ramen shop. To be honest, so far it has been a let down. IDK, I guess maybe I'm expecting too much from a bowl of soup, with noodles and condiments. As a form factor, it's genius. But for the price that it is usually sold at in western cities, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I feel like it has been a bit too overhyped for what it is…

I had a lousy burger in Japan.

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

makeitdouble wrote: post #40
i_love_cooking wrote: post #19

I have never yet been to Japan, but whenever I visit a big city, I try a ramen shop. To be honest, so far it has been a let down. IDK, I guess maybe I'm expecting too much from a bowl of soup, with noodles and condiments. As a form factor, it's genius. But for the price that it is usually sold at in western cities, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I feel like it has been a bit too overhyped for what it is…

For most foreign dishes you can't just compare the total price to local food. I'm saying that having ordered pizza in Japan, and an actually good one with Buffala for instance will be twice to three times the price you'd pay in Italy. Ramen chains managed by Japanese people are decently good when I tried them in France (Ippudo for instance), it's not that far from what's served in Japan. It costs 1.5x to 2x more, and…

Not everyone can fly to Italy for a pizza to save money! But seriously, pizza in most countries is horrible. When I lived in Ecuador the pizza had some really funky cheese. I'm not sure if you can even call it cheese. That's probably why it is almost impossible to order a plain cheese pizza. They are trying to cover it up with an assortment of vegetables and meats.

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by riedel »

emsy wrote: post #20
i_love_cooking wrote: post #19

I have never yet been to Japan, but whenever I visit a big city, I try a ramen shop. To be honest, so far it has been a let down. IDK, I guess maybe I'm expecting too much from a bowl of soup, with noodles and condiments. As a form factor, it's genius. But for the price that it is usually sold at in western cities, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I feel like it has been a bit too overhyped for what it is…

That’s true in my experience, but Ramen in Japan is actually considerably better. The only good Ramen I ever had in Europe was in Düsseldorf but the owner imports pork from Japan.

I was actually surprised by the selection of cities in the OP until I learned that the author is the director of AI at der Spiegel. Related to the other comments on the 3D: maybe this can evolve to some gaussian splatting/diffusion world model thing...

Re: RamenHaus

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Post by scns »

nixass wrote: post #29
emsy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s true in my experience, but Ramen in Japan is actually considerably better. The only good Ramen I ever had in Europe was in Düsseldorf but the owner imports pork from Japan.

Düsselsorf is actually Japanese expats/migrants hotspot in Germany. Had great Japanese foos there on multiple occasions

Highest japanese population outside of Japan IIRC.
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