Good to hear about Taipei as Im heading out there in a couple months. Ramen or Lamen as its pronounced in chinese, is finally catching on in the US but unfortunately, the industry will try to elevate it in to a glamour food and overcharge. DC area has shit ramen unfortunately.
What Owning a Ramen Restaurant in Japan is Like
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Good to hear about Taipei as Im heading out there in a couple months. Ramen or Lamen as its pronounced in chinese, is finally catching on in the US but unfortunately, the industry will try to elevate it in to a glamour food and overcharge. DC area has shit ramen unfortunately.
I don't understand how they don't get horrible intergestion.
bodyboarder
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I could so go some ramen now.
I tried to have ramen last night but my request for "vegetarian ramen" minus fish sauce was apparently too hard for the local Japanese place to entertain.
At first I asked them to substitute the fish sauce for soya sauce, which is a strategy that usually works. On this occasion the wait staff came back and told me it would change the taste. I said that's fine. They come back again and tell me there's fish sauce in their soya sauce.
At first I asked them to substitute the fish sauce for soya sauce, which is a strategy that usually works. On this occasion the wait staff came back and told me it would change the taste. I said that's fine. They come back again and tell me there's fish sauce in their soya sauce.
I tried to have ramen last night but my request for "vegetarian ramen" minus fish sauce was apparently too hard for the local Japanese place to entertain.
At first I asked them to substitute the fish sauce for soya sauce, which is a strategy that usually works. On this occasion the wait staff came back and told me it would change the taste. I said that's fine. They come back again and tell me there's fish sauce in their soya sauce.
i've been to quite a few authentic ramen places (albeit not in japan lol) and only 1 that i can remember has a vegetarian ramen
pork/chicken/fish stock is an integral part of what makes a ramen, so vegetarian version is very uncommon afaik
haha I hope this is a joke post because nobody makes their noodles in Japan because the noodles makers specialize in it.
It'd be like those restaurants that make their own ketchup when Heinz already perfected the science behind it.
SeriuzBiznus
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Drink a shit load of water and ensure you have an otherwise balanced diet (plenty of veggies for things like potassium and magnesium).
I can understand if it's a soba and they make the stock en-masse but I was asking for stir-fry ramen which tastes yummy when cooked with just soya sauce. I think they were just being willfully obstinate.
Man, I could seriously go for some ramen right now, but it's 1:45 am and no shops are open. Weekend it is.
Owning a restaurant is no easy task, you have to wake up at crazy hours and be there till late. Time might mitigate the long work hours as the restaurant consolidates its place, but it is a lot of hard work when you first open it for sure.
He's working almost constantly from 8:30 am to 11 pm, so I don't see where he'd find time to make so many noodles.
You mean yakisoba? That's not ramen. And its soy sauce. They likely won't cook it with soy sauce unless it's already on the menu. Not because of stubbornness, but because its kind of ridiculous to walk into a restaurant and ask for the chef to cook a dish off-menu. To them you might as well be asking for a cheese pizza. If you can't eat what's on the menu, then go to another restaurant or make it at home. It's ok to take stuff off, but completely changing the dish is just something gyou shouldn't expect.
Ramen stock is always made in large batches, if they don't have an actual vegetarian stock you're pretty much SOL. And in Japan, if they don't advertise vegetarian, they probably don't know what it means.
You probably wouldn't even need to know much of the language at all. There's plenty of places that basically have you get tickets from a vending machine for what you want.
EDIT: Man, I'm really realizing I haven't eaten that much ramen at all over the past 2 months that I've been in Japan. Gotta make sure to get some a couple more times before I leave soon.
... lol
Vigilant Walrus
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This reminds me of this short doc about a Japanese Sword Maker; https://vimeo.com/32113233
BudokaiMR2
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Only one person is being willfully obstinate in this scenario and it wasn't the chef.
Laieon
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Don't you dare laugh at my 불닭볶음면.
I like you.
It's k. I'm all bout that curry tho.
NumberThree
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Okay so, I learned something today.
tl;dr...
Soba noodle is Japanese, which they used to use for all of these dishes.
Then they came across Chinese Soba, and call it Chuuka Soba
Over time, they started to call Chuuka Soba, Ramen
Yaki Soba (fried noodles, super common) is made with Chuuka-Soba ~ so... ramen
hence my confusion but whatever
tl;dr...
Soba noodle is Japanese, which they used to use for all of these dishes.
Then they came across Chinese Soba, and call it Chuuka Soba
Over time, they started to call Chuuka Soba, Ramen
Yaki Soba (fried noodles, super common) is made with Chuuka-Soba ~ so... ramen
hence my confusion but whatever
Get di one wid di chicken
I've been questioned more than once about opening up my own restaurant, but I really don't have the passion about it that it takes in order to keep it running, much less profitable. It really is a huge and fickle endeavor. I see restaurants open and close all the time near my area.
I was in Japan a few months back and ate my share of ramen, largely because it was cheap and abundant. I know some people are crazy about it, but I don't consider to be one of my favorite types of Japanese food. Yeah it's good, but also largely not very healthy and there are more interesting types of food to try.
I was in Japan a few months back and ate my share of ramen, largely because it was cheap and abundant. I know some people are crazy about it, but I don't consider to be one of my favorite types of Japanese food. Yeah it's good, but also largely not very healthy and there are more interesting types of food to try.
You don't... There is a reason why Japan has the highest stomach cancer rates in the first world.
Pantaghana
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...then why is it called fast food?
Octavianus
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No son. This is wrong.
Big Chungus
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spaghetti > ramen > soba > udon
Never tried. I like them all separately but somehow, I don't think they go together.
Whenever I am in the mood for Udon, it's Tempura or Yaki Udon. Every time.
Literally nothing like it.
BudokaiMR2
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They are literally not the same thing. It's not even called instant ramen (generally just called cup noodle after the biggest brand) here and most people would make a disgusted face if you tried to compare them.
Also fist bump to the tonkotsu fans. It's tough finding tonkotsu here in Osaka that compares to the stuff I could get when I lived in Fukuoka.
There's a kyushu style ramen place near my workplace in yokohama, and it's SO good. I used to live in kyushu (not fukuoka) so it's nice to have.
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