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A box! What’s inside?
Oh wow rad!
My wife got me Japanese noodles that are not available here! Black Garlic Oil flavor! This will be a treat! Today, we went to the Uwajimaya in Seattle – found some more ramen there and some new little bowls for showing the packet contents and a new ramen bowl! It’ll show up soon! She also has some more instant noodles on the way for me! I’m spoiled! Thank you sweety!
Here’s the 7th edition of the Noodle News – I scour the Internet for interesting stories and news about noodles,
I’ve been waiting for everything to be all set up to post about this, but I have excellent news! Nong Shim America has invited my wife and I to come and tour their plant in Rancho Cucamonga, California! They’re going to fly us down for a weekend in late May where we will take a tour, sample their products and do an interview! This is about as cool as it gets! Want to say thanks to Nong Shim America for this wonderful opportunity for us to see a real instant noodle factory and to be able to bring it to everyone who enjoys the website! I’ll mention this again as time draws nearer. We’re very excited!
My birthday’s on Wednesday! Yay! My sister went up to Canada and called me and rattled off a ton of brands and names of instant noodles and got me a ton of them!
You may have been wondering, “why so few reviews this week?” Well, to put it mildly, I’m sick. Had this horrible nagging cough for three weeks. Didn’t make it to work two weeks ago, made it this week and then the whole thing kicked into ultra overdrive. We’re talking about staying in bed all day people. Mucus flowing like the Mississippi. I’m starting the slow path to recovery thanks in no small part to my wife and my sister’s kindness. Today I decided that after being upo for quite a while I’d better make myself eat something. I decided to go with some chicken Top Ramen.
Starting yesterday evening, I noticed a huge amount of people from Korea coming to the site. Apparently, they were all coming in droves because of a news story about my Top Ten list including Nong Shim’s Shin Ramyun Black noodles! Well, here’s some links and some pictures of the articles. I’m really hoping someone can translate them soon as Google Translate has done a really crummy job where it usually does so well.
I got an email from 99 Ranch Market with this recipe in it today and thought I’d post it – sounds like a nice little Valentine’s Day dinner. Hope everyone’s having a good day!
As always, I scour the Internet searching from news about instant noodles. Here’s some articles that you may find interesting:
Here are the results for the last poll:
Do you like you instant noodles hot and spicy?
Here it is – the new Ramen Rater Top Ten List! It was originally released on Foodiggity.com on January 9th, 2011 as an exclusive guest post I did. Now, here it is on The Ramen Rater for your perusal with links to all of the corresponding reviews! Enjoy!
I got a comment from a place called Ramen Place asking me to check out their web store. Lots of things I’ve not seen before! So I sent an email off to www.ramenplace.com early this week asking if they’d be up for donating some varieties. I got a resounding and very nice yes! Here’s a big box that came from them – As you can see, it’s dwarfing Otis the Pug!
I have been able to get the opportunity to do an interview with Singapore’s Tat Hui Corporation, makers of KOKA noodles! I have compiled a list of questions to ask and now would like YOU to round out the list – what would you ask them? This will be open until Monday, 2/13/2012. At the end, I will list the questions picked to send them! Make sure you include your first name and last initial and where you are from in the response! Good luck!
So I did a guest post on Foodiggity! Decided I’d give em’ the exclusive and so The new Top Ten Instant Noodles In The World (according to me) is on their site right now! Don’t worry – it’ll be up here on Saturday, but for now, check it out on Foodiggity – here‘s the link!
Rode the bus home from work. I’ve had a hacking cough lately and was eager to get home. Got off the bus and was hoofing it up the street tgo my apartment when I thought I ought to see if there’s a package at the office. Well, there was.
I sent an email to Jerry at www.cbsop.com (which stands for ‘Cooking By The Seat of Our Pants) about doing a guest post. He was more than happy about it and here’s the post entitled, “The Gentle Art Of Making Indonesian Instant Noodles: The Finest Of The Fine.” Thanks again, Jerry!
Click image to enlarge. Yes it’s true. It’s the Tat Hui Koka Tomato flavor ramen with guacamole and sour cream and Texas Pete hot sauce. Eat this and your team will win.
Click poster to enlarge. I saw this online and thought – hey – everyone should know about it! If you live around Lafayette, LA, be sure to check out the Total Ramen-nation! Here’s more info!
Welcome to the fourth installment of The Ramen Rater Noodle News – I search the Internet to find current info and news on instant noodles and bring it here.
Here are some articles from the Internet and such tyhat the Ramen Rater reader may find fascinating!
I was invited to write a guest post on the One Pan Wonders blog this week, and so I did. Here’s the post. As you can see from the image, Teresa Dicentra Black is an author and has written a book about recipes for hiking and backpacking! I never equivocated hiking and instant noodles being connected, but it makes sense; they’re easy to pack and all you need is some hot water. Here’s a link to her website – check out her book! Thanks again for the invite – it was fun to write about noodles in a different way!
Here’s the article! Click image below to enlarge.
Woke up and noticed a lot of people checking out the site and lo and behold – the CNN Article came out! Enjoy! Thanks to Daphne Sashin for the interview! Click image below to enlarge or use this link.
Well, today’s the day! The first Ramen Rater Momofuku Ando Day! I hope people out there are enjoying noodles today! Been a great day here – had some good noodles (which you’ll see shortly in the video) and was featured on the Seattle Weekly’s blog! Today I decided to review the closest thing I had to the 1958 Nissin Chikin noodles – the first instant noodles that were produced ever. I went with Nissin’s Top Ramen Chicken flavor; kind of the great grandchild of the Nissin Chikin! So sit back, relax, and check out the video. Happy Momofuku Ando Day!
…is here! Enjoy!
It dawned on me – why not a ton of videos about how instant noodles are made around the world? Well, here you go!
Got a package from Greg B. of Marathon, Florida today! I wonder what’s inside?
Rad box, btw!
My lovely wife gave me a couple ramen related things for Christmas! This poster is from the late 70’s!
So I was looking around for ramen news to post here one day and I came across a blog post about bizarre foods. I put it on TRR and got a nice note frtom the bloggers! Now they’ve done a part two and been kind enough to mention The Ramen Rater! Here is a link to their blog. I spent some time reading and it looks really cool – they’ve done an entire travelogue of their trip to Nepal and climbing 18,250 foot Kala Patthar! See? Instant noodles aren’t so bad for you, are they?
Wasn’t expecting any more presents – Christmas is over! A lightweight box… Hmm…
Hey so I’m coating page B3 of the Everett Herald today! I scanned the page below (click the image to enlarge it) – here’s a link to the article on the Everett Herald’s website.
I’ve heard now from two separate sources that this Kkokkomyeon stuff is really popular and is going to be a really big deal when it comes to the USA. Both a seller of instant noodles alluded to it as well as a mention by name by the lady at the Kitty House at 99 Ranch Market (they sell Hello Kitty stuff there).
Here are some new articles about instant noodles you might find interesting.
Instant noodles and anti-regime leaflets rain down on North Korea
For the first week of “Show Your Noodles,” I received only one entry. Hoping some more of you decide to send some pictures! All you need to do is take a picture of the instant noodles you’re eating and send it to me at info@ramenrater.com. Here’s the entry sent by Annika from Estonia! Thanks, Annika! Happy New Year!!!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
Thought I’d toss out some links to some interesting noodle-related stories I’ve been checking out. Enjoy!
For awhile now, I’ve known that having the site be The Ramen Rater and having the ‘the’ out of the domain name was a kind of bad idea, I thought I’d fix it by adding wwww.theramenrater.com. So you will be able to go to www.ramenrater.com or www.theramenrater.com. Like that? No? Yes? Well, okay then.
So only one entry so far! Send me a picture of a bowl of noodles you’re eating and a little info and I’ll post it on the blog! Sunday’s the last day for this first round! Email to info@ramenrater.com.
So I finally got my copies of the big Sunday article in the Skagit Valley Herald (thanks to my sister Sue!) and now have scanned them to view here. Click on the images to see a readable image.
I was thinking it would be cool to have a page of just pictures of noodles that people had prepared for their lunch or whatever. Well, all I need is people to send in pictures of themselves eating noodles! Every week I’ll post them and put the best one at the top! Sound like fun? I’m really curious what people will come up with! Email your pics to info@ramenrater.com and put “Show Your Noodles” in the subject. Also, first name and last initial and city you hail from if you’re so bold. Can’t wait to see if this happens!
