All You Need to Know about Ramen
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on May 10, 2008 – 8:25 am -According to some historians, noodles originated from China over 4,000 to 5,000 years ago and reached the Japanese culture much later on. In fact, we had to wait up to 19th century, in the Meiji period, for ramen to become widely known in Japan, and ages till it got to us in the western world.
Salt ramen originated in Hokkaido in the Taisho era. The Japanese dish was originally called “Lamen”, but will be later referred to as “Ramen”, since there is no distinction between the ‘L’ and ‘R’ sounds in the Japanese language and it was a more popular way to express the word.
After the Second World War came an intense food shortage in Japan, a turning point in the history of noodles.
Ramen were perfect and greatly helped Japan, they were cheap and a great source of needed calories. This was partly due to cheap flour imported from the United States. A bit later, in 1958, Momofuku Ando, founder and chairman of Nissin Foods, invented the instant noodles. He was struck by something he saw at that time: long lines stretching out in front of ramen shops. It gave him the idea of making ramen available to all people, in his words, “anytime, anywhere.” It was named the greatest “made in Japan” invention of the 20th century, after the transistor radio.
In 1970, Nissin Foods introduced the ramen to the United States. In 1972, ramen was produced in United States. 4000 years after the origin of the first noodles, ramen are known worldwide and are part of over 85 billions meals every year. Today, ramen are everywhere in Japan and across the world, and each province has it unique flavor and closely-guarded secret ingredient. Do I feel a recipe involving ramen later??
Tags: Food, Japan, Noodles, Ramen
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I’ll post a delicious (and easy to make) crab miso broth with ramen in the daily recipe later. Get your chopsticks ready…
Yum. I love miso and have no idea how to make the soup, except those little packets you buy in the store that never taste like - you know - miso soup.
Then follow the recipe tonight. Kate, can you also reduce the other pics on the wedding above? Can’t get to the reduction I want. How does one post a pic in this box, if I wanted to ?
GMTA. I opened that post and said, Hm, I need to reduce the size of these pics! It’s done.
If you want to post a pic in this box, you need to do a bit of HTML. Post the photo name and I’ll fix it for you.
Or here’s your code (remove spaces):
< a href = "/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/nameofpic.JPG" >< img src= "/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/nameofpic.thumbnail.JPG"/ >
Note that the uploads are organized by year and month.
Jeebus! That’s Greek to me, Kate. That’s my downfall, I never seem to understand how to post pics in awkward places!
Not to worry. Just post the name of the pic and I’ll fix it for you. At least until I find a better comment system.
How cool! I always thought of ramen noodles as yet another evil plot by the corporations to tempt us into eating so much crap, we can no longer resist their lure, thus making it possible for them to take over the world.
Never once occurred to me they might be real food. I look forward to your recipe, which I will read later today while watching satellite and insane storm chasers’ live feeds of wall clouds and rotations and stove pipes and hooks and maybe even tornados.
Some people watch movies — this time of year, I watch the weather casters.
I bought the entire collection of Jeeves, with Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Steven Fry as the genial butler. So I’m set for a few days.
I’m watching out for this DVD collection at something a bit less than $475.00. I adore Peter Wimsey, but not that much.
It’s too expensive. Mine cost just under 30 bucks for the entire 21 eps. Check Ebay for cheaper stuff, or post it on their wall, you’ll have an answer pretty quick if there are sellers.
BTW, how do you post a link from this box, enquiring mind needs to know?
HMTL again. Remove the spaces and use this format:
< a href = "http://www.URLyouwanttolinkto.com" >Text you want to show up as a link< /a >
I’ll try! Thanks.
I grew up eating what we called “saimin” in Hawaii–same thing. Fast-cooking noodles in a dried cake, packet of flavoring.
Later, I shied away from them out of certainty that MSG was heavily involved.
I’ve since come to realize that the packet of flavoring is probably evil, while the noodles themselves are probably okay to eat. Looking forward to a real recipe!
I throw away the little packets that come with ramen, and use miso paste instead, as written in the recipe today. Safer, and tastier.
So, the usual packaged ramen noodles are fine? Good to know, because they’re a great bargain.
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