{"id":355,"date":"2005-08-30T00:38:41","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T00:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2005-08-30T00:38:41","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T00:38:41","slug":"ramen_primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/ramen_primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramen Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sooo, some people here ask me, &#8220;what&#8217;s the big deal about top ramen&#8221;?  That question usually comes after they view pictures in the blog or gallery and see steaming bowls of ramen with the perfect soft boiled egg and tender cha siu&#8230;<br \/>\nMmmm.  Getting hungry and it&#8217;s 00:40 right now!<br \/>\nAnyhoo, after I beat them senseless with their own top ramen packages, I try to explain (briefly) the different styles and broths and it&#8217;s not instant noodles (which call themselves &#8220;ramen&#8221;, sacrilege!), but a category of noodle along with soba and udon.  Then they run away right after I swoon over how smooth kyushu ramen is over shoyu.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirkyjapan.or.tv\/ramen_nation.htm\">page<\/a> that explains the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirkyjapan.or.tv\/ramen_nation.htm\">ramen thing<\/a> in Japan.  (<em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirkyjapan.or.tv\">QuirkyJapan<\/a><\/em>).<br \/>\nNow if I could only find a good ramen shop in San Francisco!  We have three for the entire city, all clustered within a block of each other and not that terrific&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sooo, some people here ask me, &#8220;what&#8217;s the big deal about top ramen&#8221;? That question usually comes after they view pictures in the blog or gallery and see steaming bowls of ramen with the perfect soft boiled egg and tender cha siu&#8230; Mmmm. Getting hungry and it&#8217;s 00:40 right now! Anyhoo, after I beat them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/ramen_primer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ramen Primer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-5J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}