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Post by mark_l_watson »

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…

You can buy really good Ramen ingredients online and make your own. If you are not a vegetarian and don’t mind eating pork, you can buy sealed packets containing about 2 or 3 fluid ounces of thick pork bone broth, reduced to a thick liquid. I like a lot of veggies, and buy good noodles.

My wife, who I have been married to most of my long life, has never liked vegetables. I make Ramen and she eats her veggies as if they weren’t even in the Ramen. Just a little life hack I thought I would share, it might work with kids also.

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Post by hurflmurfl »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #67
_0ffh wrote: post #38

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I've been to Japan - the first cheap buy-and-nuke-at-home ramen from the konbini around the corner I ate there completely blew me away (†)! It was decisively better than what I would realistically expect to get in a restaurant in the west. I don't know how they do it, but I learned never to underestimate the Japanese people’s dedication to their craft. (†) For the curious, it was chāshū ramen. Edit: To avoid confusio…

That impressed me too, but I brush it off to hunger and other biases. > chāshū ramen. Chashu is just name for pork theh put in soup. Main charecterization is type of broth - tonkotsu is the hardest to pull off as it requires 8 hours of boiling bones (but I’ve seen ready made broth to buy so I suspect most shops use that). Miso one is pretty trivial to make at home. I guess not many know this but one type of tare (con…

I think the boiling is closer to 18 hours. I do a pretty good one in about 5 in my instant pot, though.

Another big problem with getting a "ramen" in a random western restaurant is noodles. If they don't make them themselves, the dry shelf stable stuff is just not good (at least what I can find in my EU country). As I was slowly upping my ramen game at home, the single biggest difference in quality was when I started making my own noodles.

I suppose if a shop markets itself as a ramen shop, you have a chance of getting a decent bowl. Most of the "asian" or even "japanese" restaurants in my city are places where they add cream to tonkotsu to make it white...

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Post by ngruhn »

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…

Ramen is a great soup. But I haven't been blown away in any shop not even Japan. EXCEPT that random place in Kyoto we went into without plan. I think it's even a franchise. Not an ancient shop with 100 year tradition or something:

https://salmonnoodlekyoto.com/

I got the "Salmon Dandan Noodles". Good lord that broth. No idea what was in there. It wasn't clear; rather slightly thick and creamy. And the salmon was so tender. I don't even like pork but I also ate that without thinking. Man I still miss that dish.

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Post by maccard »

estearum wrote: post #60
maccard wrote: post #51

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I’ve found it’s very city dependent. My experience in the US was yelp was miles ahead, but where I live (Edinburgh) it’s pretty much useless.

In the southeastern US, Yelp is almost negative signal because southerners have legitimately horrible taste.

I have an unfair suspicion that the people who make yelp great in the US are the same that make it suck in Europe!

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Post by stasomatic »

embedding-shape wrote: post #28
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…

> But for the price that it is usually sold at in western cities What are those prices specifically? In Barcelona (one of those western cities, imo) at a good ramen place, you get Gyozas for ~5 EUR, and a nice ramen for ~12-14 EUR, add a drink and you end up with ~20 EUR per person, which strikes me as relatively affordable for eating out, but maybe the metropolitan prices have biased me over time. Is this expensive/…

> But for the price that it is usually sold at in western cities What are those prices specifically?

In Barcelona (one of those western cities, imo) at a good ramen place, you get Gyozas for ~5 EUR, and a nice ramen for ~12-14 EUR, add a drink and you end up with ~20 EUR per person, which strikes me as relatively affordable for eating out, but maybe the metropolitan prices have biased me over time. Is this expensive/cheap compared to the other cities you've tried ramen in?

About $20 for a medium bowl in my not very fancy area of Miami.

A large delicious Tonkutsu in North Hollywood pre-covid was $15.

The online restaurant listings, at least in the States, have been usurped by arbitragers. Expect a 30% or higher surcharge for online orders, if you yourself pick up.

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Post by mc32 »

asyx wrote: post #65
mc32 wrote: post #63

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Isn’t ramen in Japan fast-food? Of the people who dine-in, few people would stay at a McDonalds an hour to “dine”. It’s go in order, eat and get out. And, like burgers you do have high end joints too. Also, like burgers ramen isn’t considered “healthy” food. High sodium, high fat, and somewhat low in nutrients. It’s basically fast-food.

I don’t think an hour at McDonald’s is that crazy either though.

I’m guessing back in the late sixties to early seventies going to McDonalds could have been a special night out and it could have been a place people stayed an hour. Some people may still linger in a McDonalds for an hour but I’d have think that’d be an exception. They’re loud, crowded and the seats are not entirely made for comfort. It’s not a place that strikes the imagination with, oh, there’s a place we can go eat and relax at.

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Post by guessmyname »

scns wrote: post #50
nixass wrote: post #29

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

Highest japanese population outside of Japan IIRC.

Düsseldorf, Germany, is home to Europe’s third-largest Japanese community [1] after London and Paris, featuring roughly 15,000 Japanese residents and hundreds of businesses.

Brazil has the largest ethnic Japanese population outside of Japan, with an estimated 2 million people of Japanese descent. Most of these individuals live in the state and city of São Paulo, which features the famous Japanese neighborhood of Liberdade [2][3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_community_of_Düsseldo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberdade_%28district_of_São_P...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora

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Post by asyx »

mc32 wrote: post #76
asyx wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think an hour at McDonald’s is that crazy either though.

I’m guessing back in the late sixties to early seventies going to McDonalds could have been a special night out and it could have been a place people stayed an hour. Some people may still linger in a McDonalds for an hour but I’d have think that’d be an exception. They’re loud, crowded and the seats are not entirely made for comfort. It’s not a place that strikes the imagination with, oh, there’s a place we can go ea…

They’re not that bad in Germany. The ramen places are actually more noisy.

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Post by Atreiden »

user43928 wrote: post #25
miguelbemartin wrote: post #8

A rotating ramen in the first position of HN? why?

The site looks good on mobile. > No cookies. No tips. No JavaScript. Just ramen. I cannot help but wonder if Claude wrote this copy. Not that there would be anything wrong with that, I am just curious.

A little bit of JavaScript might have been nice. Tapping through a dozen ramens required me to then hit back a dozen times to return.

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Post by zomglings »

retrochameleon wrote: post #56
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…

San Francisco is an example of a place with higher than average Japanese population where you have a chance of getting some really good authentic stuff. I recently ate at a place that caught my eye with chicken katsu curry, and that meal teleported me back to Japan.

Could you share the restaurant? I maintain a list.
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