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Watching a review of chefs doing a ‘blind’ tasting of different instant ramens, and someone says ‘this tastes healthy in a not so good way’ I knew right away it was the Trader Joe’s one (most of their ‘east Asian’ stuff is like ‘let’s make something in the shape of the thing and take out all the flavor!’ Except the gimbap, which is pretty decent)

Adrianna Tan

I know people have a classist thing about instant ramen, but there’s a whole world of instant ramen ranging from meh to ‘probably better than a fancy ramen in your small city’

@skinnylatte I feel like this is the same people who think "expensive Chinese food" is an oxymoron. Or freak out at a taco that costs more than $1. If all you've had is cup-o-noodles, your judgement is off.

@petrillic sigh, I miss (good) expensive Chinese food

@douglasvb if you’re ever in San Jose, I’m a fan of Ramen Nagi

@StevenSavage @douglasvb I like the green ramen. It’s very unique. Their vegan ramens are also astonishingly good

@skinnylatte

Can you recommend a “probably better than a fancy ramen in your small city” ?

@icastico it’s a thing now that many well known ramen joints in japan make their own instant ramen. The noodles and soup are functionally similar.

The noodles are straighter and better quality and the soup is a dehydrated version of the thing they serve.

This is one (Ichiran Hakata instant ramen), you can get it from many places

japanese-products.blog/2019/08

You can even get a tasting box of diff ramens from Japan like that

Ichiran Instant Hakata Tonkotsu Ramen
Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture · All About Ichiran Hakata Tonkotsu Ramen Instant Noodles - Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture“Ichiran (一蘭)” is a Fukuoka-based popular ramen restaurant chain offering Hakata-style Tonkotsu ramen with pork bone broth soup, which has many branches in and outside of Japan. Known as one of the companies researching...

@icastico and this instant Lanzhou ramen is better than most places that do Chinese beef noodles in SF

sayweee.com/en/product/Galanla

The soup is the same as what they have in Lanzhou, boiled down into a concentrate you just add water to it. The noodles are springy.

www.sayweee.comGalanlang Lan Zhou Beef Noodles 2 Servings 425 gTop choice for Asian groceries.

@skinnylatte

Excellent. Thanks. Our teenager has been doing lots of instant ramen- will get him to try.