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Category: Food

  • Canadian Style Menu

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    As promised, here’s a look at the Canadian Style menu I designed. As you can see, the food selection is maple-heavy, and quite tasty I might add. My faves? The meat pie brought me back home, and tastes pretty much like the kind my mom made. My favorite dessert had got to be the maple…

  • Windows Versus Bento

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    Cool bento, but I’d rather it was a Mac. Link via ODK.

  • Show Me the Ramen!

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    NCM‘s Ola points me this Google blog post: “Finding Great Ramen Nearby.” As this link (of spots near Shinjuku that feature 1000 yen or less plate specials) shows, the Google local/maps are now covering Japan — quick link to Local Japan and Maps Japan. Update: Oh man, I’ve started doing searches for cafes by area…

  • Ramen by Mail

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    Seems like one of the new trends this year was for mail-order ramen from famous shops throughout Japan. In the mood for a steaming bowl of Hakkaido ramen? It’s just an internet order away. The Yahoo! Japan Shopping section lists the most popular sales, and the top 5 are all from Ikebukuro’s Taishouken shop. I…

  • Namco Versus Ramen

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    Game publisher Namco plans to open a ramen theme park in Nagoya next year. Today, Namco announced plans to open a ramen noodle theme park in the southern Japanese city of Nagoya. The “Nagoya Noodle Shop Alley,” due to open for business on February 25, is meant to introduce visitors to the history of ramen…

  • Ramen in Manhattan

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    A reader sends in a link to an article from the NEW YORK TIMES about ramen shops in Manhattan. “Ramen?” you ask. “That plastic-wrapped block of dry noodles and powdered soup?” But freshly made ramen is another thing altogether. In Japanese ramenyas (ramen shops) a bowl of ramen holds a house-made soup, springy noodles, the…

  • Net Ramen

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    Ramen enters the internet age. Yahoo Japan Corp said Thursday it will start selling across the country later this month “ramen” noodle soup it has developed on the basis of the results of a popularity contest conducted via the Internet. The product, dubbed “Samurai Ramen,” features soup made from scorched “miso” fermented soy bean paste…