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A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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I like ramen, but I am careful about frequency of eating ramen. It is known among Japanese that extreme ramen freaks have short life. We Japanese maybe tend to be salt addicted. So careful people eat soup moderately.

It is about the salt only, or is there something else? I'm curious because ramen sounds like something that should be healthy.

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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post #29

I like ramen, but I am careful about frequency of eating ramen. It is known among Japanese that extreme ramen freaks have short life. We Japanese maybe tend to be salt addicted. So careful people eat soup moderately.

Well, Ramen is really tasty, but obviously it is junk food. Really nice as a threat, but no one with common sense would eat Ramen on a daily basis.

Same way, no one with common sense would eat hamburger and french fries every day.

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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post #31
post #29

I like ramen, but I am careful about frequency of eating ramen. It is known among Japanese that extreme ramen freaks have short life. We Japanese maybe tend to be salt addicted. So careful people eat soup moderately.

It is about the salt only, or is there something else? I'm curious because ramen sounds like something that should be healthy.

https://www.google.es/search?q=naritake+ramen&tbm=isch

The layer of oil floating over the stock, the corn, the pork and the butter topping doesn't help neither.

If you want healthy noodles, you can try Soba instead.

https://www.google.es/search?q=soba&tbm=isch

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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post #32
post #29

I like ramen, but I am careful about frequency of eating ramen. It is known among Japanese that extreme ramen freaks have short life. We Japanese maybe tend to be salt addicted. So careful people eat soup moderately.

Well, Ramen is really tasty, but obviously it is junk food. Really nice as a threat, but no one with common sense would eat Ramen on a daily basis. Same way, no one with common sense would eat hamburger and french fries every day.

> obviously it is junk food

Doesn't that depends on how you prepare ramen ?

For me ramen are just noodles, the "junkyness" really depends on what you eat them with. Could you make the same argument for spaghettis ?

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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Is there any type of Ramen that doesn't use Pork?? I wouldn't want to miss out on Ramen just because i dont eat Pork.

There's many kinds of ramen. Pork is one of the most common. There's chicken ramen. There's salt ramen. There's soy sauce ramen. There's miso ramen. And there's every combination. Soy+Miso+Chicken, Chicken+Pork, Pork+Sardine+Miso, Salt+Shrimp+Pork, Tomato, Cheese :P You will find it hard to know for sure if there's no pork though because even if it's labeled salt-ramen if you look at the details it might say made wit…

You forgot the seafood based combinations! They have pure seafood bases too, though. My Japanese friend brought me to a shop in Tokyo that apparently specialised in a 100% seafood base/stock. It was light compared to the meat-based stock but equally good.

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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I remember being in Fukuoka and visiting the so called "ramen stadium" at the top of some shopping complex. More varieties than you could poke a stick at, and all purchasable via ticket machine only. I ended up getting some random thing that had pork, and what appeared to be quail eggs in a black broth. I can see why they like their ramen.

There's a similar one in Kyoto at the JR Rail station that is very nice with 8 styles of ramen, all in different little sit down restaurants with ticket machines: http://www.insidekyoto.com/kyoto-ramen-koji

I remember going to both and getting lost in the sea of choices. A bit like the food courts in Singapore/HK.

Fukuoka also has food stalls with plenty of good ramen if someone is heading there

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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I really want to try ramen, but i don't like meat. Is there any Vegetarian friendly ramen?

In Japan, they usually think fish in vegetarian food is normal. So you need to take care of the ingredients even when they clam they are vegetarian restaurant.

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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post #31
post #29

I like ramen, but I am careful about frequency of eating ramen. It is known among Japanese that extreme ramen freaks have short life. We Japanese maybe tend to be salt addicted. So careful people eat soup moderately.

It is about the salt only, or is there something else? I'm curious because ramen sounds like something that should be healthy.

2014 study [1], press release [2], and interpretive article [3]:

Instant noodle intake and dietary patterns are associated with distinct cardiometabolic risk factors in Korea

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24966409

[2] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812121642.ht...

[3] http://www.care2.com/causes/did-you-know-instant-ramen-noodl...

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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I like ramen, but I am careful about frequency of eating ramen. It is known among Japanese that extreme ramen freaks have short life. We Japanese maybe tend to be salt addicted. So careful people eat soup moderately.

Tablespoons of liquid chicken fat and pork belly slices are not exactly the life-extending ingredients :)

Re: A Guide to the Regional Ramen of Japan

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is about the salt only, or is there something else? I'm curious because ramen sounds like something that should be healthy.

2014 study [1], press release [2], and interpretive article [3]: Instant noodle intake and dietary patterns are associated with distinct cardiometabolic risk factors in Korea [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24966409 [2] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812121642.ht... [3] http://www.care2.com/causes/did-you-know-instant-ramen-noodl...

Instant ramen is potentially rather different from freshly prepared ramen though, eg in terms of salt content, additives etc.
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