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Loading ...August 12, 2010
Back in April, we had a very special Umamiventure– Marcel (we call him that here), a dude who has been making ramen out of his home for the last year and a half, invited Umamimart over to try it. Fifteen of us showed up and gathered
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June 24, 2010
Piggybacking on Yamahomo’s drunk cooking post, this week’s Japanify introduces techniques for making instant ramen that will please drunks. After a long, explosive night of dancing, my husband prepared Sapporo Ichiban instant ramen.
An avid eater of Sapporo Ichiban instant ramen in his native Japan, my husband was ecstatic that
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April 21, 2010
This Umamiventure report, a love letter to ramen from the old world to new, is written by special guest writer Wen, originally posted on her blog, We Eat Everything. All photos by Wen.
A recent New York Times article about exploring Tokyo via its
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April 12, 2010
Let’s say I know this guy. We’ll call him Marcel.
Marcel is a ramenaholic. You think you love ramen? Oh no, not like Marcel loves ramen.
Marcel has traveled to Japan multiple times to meticulously research the art of ramen. The broth. The noodles. The pork.
This dude is so obsessed, that he pulls
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January 15, 2010
Two words: RAMEN TRUCK.
Is this not the raddest thing you’ve ever heard? Cause it should be. I know, I know, the food
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December 4, 2009
Will it be shoyu? Miso? Tonkotsu?
大もり= Oomori = Super Size Me?
Side of fried rice? Gyoza? An extra egg? Extra slices of roast pork?
Choose button carefully– there’s no turning back! Drop your yen into the machine and the ticket will print with your order. Take ticket to
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June 14, 2009
Ueno in Tokyo is like Chinatown in NYC, everything is sold at suspiciously low prices. You can buy everything there from selvage jeans, sneakers, Rolexes, Audigiers, to blocks of fresh tuna and candy.
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June 4, 2009
If there is anything in this world I have authority on, it’s ramen. I know ramen- it’s in my bones. I’ve been eating the instant stuff once a week since I was five (should I be bragging about that?), and my fondest life memories somehow include ramen. Ramen
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March 9, 2009
Eating while walking, talking, driving, computing and making love. Most Americans have done many or all of these things. Hopefully not simultaneously. Eating while standing in one place, however, is something that Americans don’t do
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March 4, 2009
photo Yomiuri OnlineThe global economic crisis has brought on haken-giri, an onslaught of job cuts for haken workers in Japanese companies. Haken workers are part-timers and day-laborers who work on a
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