The Official Ramen Homepage

I’ve seen Roy Choi on a few cooking shows before and he’s a darn good chef, but interestingly also a fan of instant ramen. His particular favorite involves scallions, a poached egg, and american cheese. The book sounds interesting. Roy has lived an interesting and sometimes difficult life and for him ramen provides a spiritual escape. To be honest, I don’t like american cheese, but otherwise this recipe sounds pretty simple and good.

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This week I finally heard about “rice ramen” from Lotus Foods. Rice ramen is gluten free and frankly looks a bit more adult and probably healthy when compared to your average ramen. Recently I’ve been trying to eat less processed and more natural foods (which generally means little to no ramen), but this product looks promising. It’s organic and has less sodium than your average pack. The other thing is that with the different varieties of rice the noodles have lots of interesting colors that would be some interesting dishes. Take a look at these purple forbidden rice noodles.

Forbidden Rice Ramen

As for the gluten, I’m not gluten free, but a lot of people are for a lot of reasons and I know that having a quick option is nice.

I have not seen these in stores around here but you can buy them online from the link above. If you guys try it please leave a comment about it and let me know how you like it.

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I don’t get to eat ramen much anymore. For one thing, I’ve been trying to eat more natural foods, which ramen is certainly not one of, and also my wife isn’t the biggest fan. However, now and again I get the old craving and go pick some up. With that in mind, I read through the ramen rater’s top 10 US instant noodle list to see what my next buy should be.

Out of that list, here are my choices:

1) Maruchan. Ubiquitous and cheap, I love to have this on hand. I’m a simple man, I like beef and shrimp flavor. Add some red pepper flakes to give it some spice. This is not the best on the list, but its so cheap and easy to find, I’ll list it first.

2) Nong Shim Bowl – I really like this one. It’s complex enough that you don’t need to do anything to it. I love the spicy broth in this one too, enough to almost make you cough when you sip it, which is perfect.

3. Nong Shim Black – I like the bowl, I love the black. The broth here is very rich and the vegetables are actually large enough to distinguish and tasty. This is worth the extra price to treat yourself.

Ramen Burger

I first heard about ramen burgers a couple weeks ago and I’ll admit I was curious. Finally this week, they arrived in my town, where foodie hipsters are slowly bringing in new and interesting foods mostly via local food trucks. If you’ve not heard of this before, basically a ramen burger is a beef hamburger that uses cooked and then grilled ramen as a bun. The sauce adds the umami and the green onion, crunch and color.

Unfortunately, I’ve not had a chance to have one of these yet, and so if you have, I’d love to hear your opinion on it. Was it good or just hype?

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Ramen Rater has a guide to the 10 worst varieties. Has anyone ever had any of these? The one in the picture at the top of the article looks terrible. Also be sure to check out the comments as they devolve into racial attacks. Apparently this bottom 10 list has upset some folks. (It’s also on a Taiwanese news channel, but I have no idea what this lady is saying).