How to Eat Ramen Like a Pro

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Leros

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There's this place in the northern Atlanta burbs called Umaido, the rich soup Tonkotsu ramen there is delicious and only $9. Much better than any instant ramen (Shin, Noguri, Sapporo Ichiban) that I ever had. It's like pizza, you can have real pizza at a nice pizza restaurant or microwaveable.

Grocery store ramen is the equivalent of less than $1 frozen pizza.
 

madoka

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Every year, I'll go to an Asian supermarket and buy every brand of ramen that they have to do my taste tests. Shin Ramen sucks ass. But Shin Ramen Black is quite good:

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Also, this one is decent especially for the money:

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ponyo

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Feb 14, 2002
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There's this place in the northern Atlanta burbs called Umaido, the rich soup Tonkotsu ramen there is delicious and only $9. Much better than any instant ramen (Shin, Noguri, Sapporo Ichiban) that I ever had. It's like pizza, you can have real pizza at a nice pizza restaurant or microwaveable.

My goto place is Haru Ichiban in Duluth, GA. It's $11 for special Tonkotsu ramen during lunch and it's pretty good and filling. It's run by Japanese and the cooks are Japanese as well. Umaido is Korean owned and the cooks are Korean. I tend to stick with real Japanese places for Japanese food and Korean places for Korean food.
 

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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Every year, I'll go to an Asian supermarket and buy every brand of ramen that they have to do my taste tests. Shin Ramen sucks ass. But Shin Ramen Black is quite good:

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Also, this one is decent especially for the money:

samyangsamyangramen_front.jpg

Both of those are pretty good. I think it's pretty much agreed Koreans make the best instant ramen. Japanese ramen are bland and can't compare. US ramen are inedible.
 

Cerb

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If people put as much work into learning how to cook as they do making ramen palatable, they'd never need ramen again
Need? Who said anything about need? :D It's like a frozen pizza, or rice/pasta mix box.
 

CurseTheSky

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Wtf. Instant noodles + processed cheese + Ranch dressing? It sounds like something a bunch of middle schoolers cooked up to gross their friends out.