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Ramen Rater Mentioned In Crosscut.com Article
Here‘s the link -it was a nice piece and I had no idea about it until it showed up on an RSS feed on my cellphone!
A Very Big Thank You
A big thank you goes out to Michael M. from Staten Island, NY who sent a nice box of noodles he found down the kosher aisle at his local grocery store. He’s been a fan of the site for a while now and really saved my ass when he noticed that the domain www.ramenrater.com wasn’t doing anything and the site was dead! Thanks!!!
Ramen Rater on Social Slave
Thought this was pretty cool – check out the article on Social Slave about how Ramen Rater inspired a brunch! Link
The Ramen Rater Featured On Neatorama.com
Pretty cool! Hey to all of you people coming here from neatorama! Enjoy and drop me a line! Pick me up on twitter or fb too while you’re at it. I usually do one or tweo instant noodle reviews a day so keep an eye open!
News: The Ramen Box
So whilst on our honeymoon, California had some nice places to get some noodles. The box is overflowing with noodles! It’s really a great thing! So Lots of new varieties to try and review for you soon.
What Gives? Where Are The Reviews?
So nothing new for a week or so – we got hitched and we’re on our honeymoon! I should return with plenty of noodles to review!
The Ramen Rater Appears In Dutch Magazine “Chip”
In The News: The Ramen Rater on KIRO 97.3 FM
Here’s the interview in its entirety and a link to the blog story. There will be a video taken at the station of the ramen tasting soon!
In Print: The Ramen Rater In Northwest Asian Weekly Newspaper & The Weekly Herald
The Ramen Rater in the Seattle Weekly
So here’s another story about The Ramen Rater! Check it out here. The rest of the articles about The Ramen Rater can be seen in the Media Coverage section.
The Ramen Rater Makes Front Page Everett Herald Newspaper
Awesome!!! Here’s the link so you can read online. I want to thank Noah Haglund and Dan Bates for their great work on the article and photography! Thanks again!
Ramen Rater News: New Media Coverage Page
So if you look at the top of the page, there’s a link now for the new Media Coverage page. There’s been some things going on lately and they’ll appear here shortly.
NEW !! The Ramen Rater Ramen Timer Version 2.0
Use it.
Just Something I Noticed…
Its funny; the packaging are close to the same size and they are both things I really enjoy a lot.
The Ramen Rater – Interview On KWLE 1340AM Anacortes, WA
So this morning, I had an interview on KWLE ‘The Whale’ from Anacortes, Washington! It was a lot of fun and I’d like to thank Glen and everyone at KWLE for doing the interview! Here’s a video of the studio cam and the interview!
Score: 19 New Additions – From Canada!
Look at that – wow! I haven’t ever seen most of these for sale in the stores I have been to and I have been to quite a few as you can well imagine. My sister has brought these to the home plate and so everyone should say thanks to her!
Not Noodles
So when I’m not eating instant noodles, I eat other things. Here’s one of them. A can of Progresso Light Chicken Noodles soup with some dehydrated onion and a spoonful of Mae Ploy yellow curry and a few dozen grains of rice in there. Pretty awesome stuff.
New Page – The Top Ten Instant Noodles Of All Time by The Ramen Rater
Yep! The Ramen Rater Top Ten List is here! Check it out by clicking here!
The New Ramen Box
So my old Indomie Meatball flavor box just didn’t cut it, so my beloved brought me a new one!
News: The Ramen Rater Shop
Yeah so I’ve got a little online shop now for your enjoyment. Click here to check it out!
My Awesome Birthday Noodle Journey!
So yeah look at that insane assortment of noodles – it’s really quite insane. My lovely Kit was so kind as to give me the gift of oriental flava today! First we went to Sun Ya in Seattle – a Chinese restaurant that has dim sum for lunch. Then to Uwajimaya where I got a ton of noodles! The we checked out a place called Viet Wah – that was awesome and yes, more noodles. Then to Seafood City and yes…. MORE NOODLES! Finally after coming back and relaxing for a bit, we decided on homemade Korean BBQ for dinner. Got the stuff at 99 Ranch Market and yup – got another noodle cup! In all, there’s 65 unique varieties here that will be reviewed on Ramen Rater! So Enjoy!
The Earthquake In Japan
The Ramen Rater would like to send its sympathies to all affected by the catastrophic 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan. So much of what goes on on The Ramen Rater is related to Japan and we hope that Japan bounces back swiftly and smoothly.
The Ramen Rater News – Noodle Re-Up Extreme
Yesterday we went to HT Oaktree market. Got a ton of new noodles to review! Gaze upon the massiveness!
The Ramen Rater – Local Online News Story
Hey – The Ramen Rater got in the news! Thanks go out to myEdmondsNews.com! Check it out here!
The Ramen Rater News 2/13/2011
So today I reviewed the 300th unique ramen / instant noodle pack of this weird and fun hobby of mine. There’s been a lot of different things I’ve found enjoyable about this hobby: learning about different cultures, talking with people from around the world, and, most importantly, getting to eat some cheap and sometimes extremely good food.
The Ramen Rater – Free Ramen Timer
So all you need to do is add boiling water to your noodles and hit play on this video. About 3 minutes later, you will have piping hot and perfectly cooked Cup Noodles!
The Ramen Rater Noodle Fest
So here’s a video with pretty much all the photos I’ve taken of noodles and where they come from. Strange, I know, but enjoy!
The Noodle Box
So I have a box and it stores the noodles that I review. it originally contained meat ball noodles but most of all sorts of different kinds that are gonna b reviewed sooner or later.
Ramen Rater Stats fot 2010
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
SuperMi Looks Like Some Goodness
So if anyone would like to go to Indonesia for me and bring some of this stuff back, I would be really appreciative. SuperMi? It’s gotta be some wonderful stuff, I reckon…
100 Reviews Since June 20th!
So what’s such a big deal about this? Well, I originally did about 52 reviews to start up this website a few years ago and didn’t do much with it after that. I started reviewing hot sauces and that completely took up all my review time. But now with instant noodles so near constantly, the ramen’s called me back and it’s been a lot of fun lately! So 100 reviews since June 20th – that’s almost one a day! Insanity. Not only that, there seems to be no end in sight!
Ramen Rater News – 10-02-2010
So we’ve been looking at many different little and big groceries around here. It is always fun to find a new one, but I think we’ve scoured the area and gotten to them all. So here’s a couple interesting things to look at. First…
Ramen Rater News
So here’s what I currently have to review – 20 different packages. I am pretty sure there should be lots more out there to pick up no problem. I still go out on my daily trips to the local asian groceries. I try to only get a single pack of noodles but it can be hard as they’re so cheap. With the advent of the city of Edmonds’ no single use plastic bag law, I had to dig out my backpack to carry things in. Irritating…
The Ramen Rater Mentioned In Technorati Article
Check it out – I thought it was pretty neat to get mentioned as a website to do research! Here’s the link.
Uwajimaya – Bellevue
So here’s some interesting ones I picked up at the Bellevue Uwajimaya today. I usually walk to 99 Ranch to get a different package of noodles every day, but these are all ones that they don’t have there. Some unique stuff here! I imagine I’ll get down to the Uwajimaya in Seattle and end up with some more unique stuff there .
Ramen Art
Decided to do a new piece of art today and set up a little Ramen Rater testing station kind of thing! Got some more things to add to it, but here it is for right now…
Ramenrater News
So I’ve gotten all the reviews from the old website on here now – took a bit of time, but it was well worth it as they’re searchable via the blog search on the right. I’ve also implemented a Google Custom Search tool at the right. Everything you put in there will come up with results pertaining to instant ramen noodles – so if you’re looking for somewhere to buy em’, this tool is great. Also excellent for researching information on different noodle companies too.
I shall put up some recipes and shots of my ramen escapades as they happen. Here’s a commercial for some of my favorite noodles! Happy 4th of July!
– The Ramen Rater
Homemade Multi-Cultural Noodles
I’m a big fan of instant noodles – such a big fan that I started www.ramenrater.com to review different varieties. Of all things ramen, I’ve come up with this homemade noodle recipe, taking ingredients from all over the far east and orient.
More about the old
So first a bit about one of my favorites and one of my nemeses. First, Indomie Jumbo BBQ Chicken instant noodles. This stuff is a perfect example of well thought out noodles, in that they have a few packets in there for more preparation fun, and there’s a lot of noodles. These are of the five star ilk, but I have but one complaint about them: unless you eat them quickly, after you cook ’em, they dry out and get frumpy and obstinate on the fork.