Word: ramen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This is the quintessential Hong Kong breakfast. Even McDonald's and KFC serve noodle soups, usually with an inexplicable hunk of meat dropped in the mix. Instead of eggs and toast, you'd be more likely to have ramen with a hot dog thrown in. I leave happy and satiated, although unnerved by the waitress. Maybe she's just cranky, or maybe it's like France...
...certain parts of Seoul that I can only describe as Times Square on steroids: more neon, more corporate billboards, and the hookers are still around. Near where I’m staying, I can grab a Big Mac just as easily as I can have a bowl of ramen with some kimchi. There’s a 7/11 around the corner, just like at school, and this one even sells alcohol after...
...weak American dollars. Britain makes the conversion easier by reducing it to a simple ratio, but there’s nothing more depressing than having to double amounts that already border on the expensive. The typical poor college student begrudgingly gnaws away for months at stacks of ten-cent ramen noodles; said student would find himself drowning in a $9.50 chicken ramen bowl—the cheapest soup on the menu. This menu reads: “All dishes at Wagamama are cooked to order and then served immediately to your table. This means that individual selections of your side...
...diary into the hands of HCAP Japan’s former president and demanded he draw a gastronomic map of Tokyo. I was more than a little overzealous, but my requests turned up little. My survey yielded a suggestion to find “real soba, real udon, real ramen,” (a pointer as specific as “find a real hot dog in New York”) and an arrow in my journal pointing to Osaki, a small district in western Tokyo where the best ramen bar supposedly existed. The only concrete destination on my itinerary...
First prize for a raffle benefitting the Rural China Education Fund turned out to be 24 cups of ramen noodles...