US Getting Taste For Ramen

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]AP: Ramen Renaissance - Move over, sushi! Ramen finding new fans in US
Nearly four decades after the first instant ramen noodle factory opened in the U.S., Japan's beloved comfort food finally is making inroads - even achieving cult status - in a nation where burgers and pizza still rule. Once considered just a bargain meal for cash-starved college students, ramen noodles suddenly are commanding as much as $15 or more a bowl in sleek New York noodle shops. "We are living in a ramen moment," says Alan Richman, GQ magazine food critic who wrote his first ramen review after dining at Ippudo NY. In March, the restaurant became the first branch outside Japan of a highly regarded noodle shop chain. "It's been discovered by people like me who were ignorant," Richman says. "It's the food of the moment"...more...

[Takechanpoo]

Korean-American chef David Chang already was drawing hordes of customers to his stylish Momofuku Noodle Bar, which opened in 2004.

Why always Korean have to do with Japan like remora? eh?
Korean do only Korean things. Stay away from us, this parasite.

"Like most things, the Japanese imported the idea from another culture and have taken it to the extreme," says Chang,

Don't speak like other people's affair, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

[omae mona]

[floatr][/floatr]AP: Ramen Renaissance - Move over, sushi! Ramen finding new fans in US
Nearly four decades after the first instant ramen noodle factory opened in the U.S., Japan's beloved comfort food finally is making inroads - even achieving cult status - in a nation where burgers and pizza still rule. Once considered just a bargain meal for cash-starved college students, ramen noodles suddenly are commanding as much as $15 or more a bowl in sleek New York noodle shops. "We are living in a ramen moment," says Alan Richman, GQ magazine food critic who wrote his first ramen review after dining at Ippudo NY. In March, the restaurant became the first branch outside Japan of a highly regarded noodle shop chain. "It's been discovered by people like me who were ignorant," Richman says. "It's the food of the moment"...more...

Some friends have mentioned the Ippudo in New York and others have actually visited, and thought it was good. Has anybody here gone to any of the Ippudo stores in Japan? Is it anything special, or run-of-the-mill ramen?

I was in a neighborhood ramen joint last week, and strangely, they had a stack of fliers advertising Ippudo New York. This place was not itself affiliated with Ippudo though, as far as I know.

[IkemenTommy]

Ippudo is like the best hang-over pre-cure on earth. Do you know how many times the Akamaru Kata-men has saved me from ruining the next day after a heavy binge drinking in Roppongi?

[Red Floyd]

Ipudo is nice, but too pricey. I like Rai Rai Ken.

[Bucky]

[Big Booger]

I'd like to open an okonomiyaki shop i the states. I think it'd do well especially if you put in things that American's might enjoy like a chicken nugget okonomiyaki or something else strange like that. I think okonomiyaki kicks ass! And it suits the American taste. BUt I could be way off.

[Bucky]

I'd like to open an okonomiyaki shop i the states. I think it'd do well especially if you put in things that American's might enjoy like a chicken nugget okonomiyaki or something else strange like that. I think okonomiyaki kicks ass! And it suits the American taste. BUt I could be way off.

Two places in Seattle that serve Okonomiyaki.

[Big Booger]

Two places in Seattle that serve Okonomiyaki.

Are they popular?

[pheyton]

We have every kind of Japanese food you can think of here in So. Cal. Good Okonomiyaki place in Torrance and San Tou Ka ramen in Torrance and Costa Mesa. San Tou Ka's base is fuckin delicious, thick, oily, miso base with choice char shu. There are a few other ramen places, but none as good as San Tou Ka.

[Adhesive]

We have every kind of Japanese food you can think of here in So. Cal. Good Okonomiyaki place in Torrance and San Tou Ka ramen in Torrance and Costa Mesa. San Tou Ka's base is fuckin delicious, thick, oily, miso base with choice char shu. There are a few other ramen places, but none as good as San Tou Ka.

Santouka is pretty good, I'd give it between 7-8 out of 10, which is pretty good considering most ramen in the states is utter shit. There's a place in San Jose that has decent spicy miso ramen, you just have to make sure you add an egg and chashu to your order. There also used to be a ramen shop in the Marukai of Costa Mesa that had amazing kimchi miso ramen, but they went out of business about 4 years ago.

Nothing beats an authentic kogoshimafuu tonkotsu shoyu ramen.

[EKen9]

Ippudo is better in Japan and doesn't cost an arm and a leg like the one in NYC

Now they are going to open an Ichiran in Brooklyn too