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Still in the Village, Took a Break, Now Back Again
And have been for a few months, again. Back in the same area, different eng team. Looking forward to 2025.
Showing posts with label Misc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Misc. Show all posts
2025-03-08
2021-11-05
Somehow I Find Myself Back In the Village Again
And have been for a few months. People speak a different language now, and the furniture is different (and fun to work with), but they are still the people I know and have trusted for years and years - so it's all good.
Thorpe [to Number Six]: "You resign. You disappear. You return. You spin a yarn that Hans Christian Andersen would reject as a fairy tale."
--The Prisoner, "Many Happy Returns" - aired Nov 10, 1967
2020-12-11
2020-11-17
2020-11-13
2020-11-12
2020-10-25
2019-11-23
2019-03-14
The Village Is In My Rear View Mirror
Chairman: “We deplore your spirit of disharmony.”
Number 6: “That's a common complaint around here, isn't it?”
--The Prisoner, "A Change of Mind" - aired Dec 15, 1967
2018-12-21
2015-05-08
Tabelog in English
Tabelog in English:
http://tabelog.com/en
at least the neighborhoods, shops, rankings, maps, contact info (mostly), some transliterated names. But not the reviews (mostly).
Discuss...
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/1010390
2013-11-14
Ramen Website Roundup
Here are some other ramen websites that are regularly updated and cover ramen in Japan... just to keep you occupied:
http://www.ramenadventures.com
http://www.ramenities.com
http://www.goramen.com
http://enjoyramen.blogspot.com
2013-10-13
How much does a bowl of Ramen Jiro weigh?
Again courtesy of my friend K-san (in Tokyo)...
http://tatsuyanikaido.blogspot.jp/2013/09/blog-post_29.html
The above blog post has a list of most of the popular Ramen Jiro branches and the weights of the non-soup portion of the serving.
The "winner", coming in at 1139 grams (2.5 lbs) is the Hachioji branch, near Keihin Horinouchi station.
Reviewed here back in 2007:
http://www.ramentokyo.com/2007/06/ramen-jirohachioji-2.html
2013-06-11
Umenoya Jiro-kei place in Torrance, CA
Courtesy of my friend K-san (in Tokyo)...
http://rocketnews24.com/2013/06/11/338912/
http://www.yelp.com/biz/umenoya-torrance
2012-05-13
Hong Kong Ramen #1
Although I know much less about ramen in HK then I do about ramen in Japan, I have started to go to ramen shops frequently enough on my trips to HK over the last few years to see that:
1 - a small ramen culture is starting to appear (in a city that is well-known for food and devotion to it)
2 - more ramen shops are appearing, some due to the Japanese influence (every time I go to HK I swear I see more Japanese signage and shops)
3 - the quality of them appears to be increasing
As of today I have been to:
Yokozuna (Mongkok)
Santouka (TST)
Kakurega
Butao (Causeway Bay)
Hide-Chan
several places in the Sheung Wan area
Ippudo
Ippei-an
Kakurega is the best so far.
2011-12-27
Bestmart.jp Offers Ramen Delivery to Homes - Updated
This is a Dec 2011 update of a blog entry that originally appeared in Dec 2010:
Original article text:
Oosaki-san of RamenBank fame, of 18000 ramen bowls eaten fame etc., has started an online ramen home delivery service. Now you can have actual ramen delivered (from certain shops) directly to your home. Some other shops have been doing this through the Rakuten online portal but this is the first time I have seen someone other than the shops themselves do it.
Bestmart.jp Shop List
They only seem to have a short list of shops that they deliver from, and only a few of them such as Jiraigen, Fuunji, Kazuya etc. are shops that I recognize. No Ramen Jiro.
Perhaps after the New Year I will place an order and see how the process goes and what the final result is.
Dec 2011 update:
I was finally able to order from Bestmart.jp earlier this year and I am just getting around to posting the results now. I selected the tonkotsu gyokai tsukemen from Hinode Ramen in Yokahama, you may remember them from this post last year. You have to order about 1-2 weeks in advance and pick the day of delivery, they tell you which days are available for delivery on the site. In any case the order came via "cool takkyubin" and packaged with some dry ice. You then heat up the soup (in the bag) and boil the noodles yourself. Everything tasted reasonably fresh and the total cost including shipping was less than 2000 yen for 2 portions. If the ramen shop you want is covered by Bestmart.jp then I think they are worth a try.
2011-08-17
Back Online
Apologies for the several-month gap in posts. I'm currently splitting my time between the US and Asia and a number of things have taken precedence. However during my Asia time I have still hit a number of good shops both inside and outside of Tokyo. I have a number of reviews stacked up in my reviews folder on the server, and I will be posting them shortly. Hope everyone is well. Ganbare Nihon!
2010-12-14
Reset Water from Hideyuki Ishigami
石神秀幸からリセットウォーター
Ramen superstar Hideyuki Ishigami (石神秀幸) has come out with his own line of custom water. This water is called Reset Water and is ostensibly intended to "reset" your body after eating a large fatty meal (hmm can we think of anything like that). Each bottle contains 140 mg of magnesium. Feel free to look up magnesium and fat and decide for yourself whether this water will do anything for you. As for the taste I can say that it tastes like someone dissolved a stick of blackboard chalk in the bottle.
2010-12-07
New Ramen Jiro in Nakayama Opens This Weekend
The 36th Ramen Jiro opens in Nakayama (JR Yokohama Line or Green Line) this weekend, Dec 12.
Here's the address plus some initial pics.
Full report to come in due course.
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