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Another Great Video My Friend Shogo. In New Zealand There Is A Lovely Sushi Restaurant I Go Too Where They Serve Chicken And Prawn Katsu Type Of Ramen 🍜🍜 It Is The Best Ramen I Have Ever Tried.
@@Zz7722zZ I mean I like both for different reasons. Northern style is heartier and pairs well with bold flavors. Shanghai style noodles with pickled mustard greens is great with a piece of fried pork. Southern style is springy and goes well with wonton and fish cakes.
wonton noodle is my favorite soup noodle, I prefer it even over ramen, I would describe as even chewier than ramen. I assume the HK style and the Guandong style are one and the same btw.
My wife is Brazilian but is also half-Japanese. The Japanese side of her family (her grandparents) hails from Wakayama. We visited Wakayama back in October of last year (2021) with her father and it's a very beautiful area with rolling green hills, especially by the beach (lots of surf spots and retired Japanese who live to surf all day). The ramen and food are indeed delicious, and we want to visit Wakayama again.
Shogo could make a killing as a tour guide. He and his family and friends could run a business similar to the "hire a friend" industry, only the people getting hired act as tour guides and translators for individual tourists (rather than the giant tourist groups being shepherded around pre-determined sights and destinations). Imagine having a local to show you around town and follow you around wherever you may want to go, and helping you with translations as well as etiquette in different places you go to. It would probably cost more than signing up for a regular guided tour of course, but man it would be so worth it for the many tourists who are interested in going to Japan, but feel a little intimidated by the language barrier and the cultural differences.
@@sevenproxies4255 Id like this idea since as a tourist you might not know all laws, and having such a personal guide would help you lower your risk of acidentaly breaking one ^^
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I had the Hokkaido ramen when my wife and friends and I visited Sapporo. It was wonderful and, along with the city's namesake beer, warmed us wonderfully after visiting the Snow festival. As for the Wakayama ramen, I think that's what a local food truck called the Ramen Rickshaw sold, only they called it Peddler's Noodles. It was so delicious that the front desk ladies in my old office knew that if the Rickshaw was around, they were to buy a large order of the Peddler's Noodles for me, tip the Rickshaw, and get a tip themselves when I was able to eat. Unfortunately for me, years ago the Rickshaw posted on Facebook that they were retiring because they achieved their goal of putting their daughter through college.
For the soup part, I'd honestly say it differs from person to person and region to region. In Guangzhou, we have very rich broth by simmering pork bones for soup for a day or two. Its interchangable honestly. For the "gyozas" we have something called the 锅贴 (guo1 tie1)
I was in Japan for two years (42 years ago) & must say I never had a bad meal eating the local foods. Most enjoyable & the people were extremely polite.
Something I know about Japanese ramen is about the "brine" you mentioned. It's a VERY high alkaline water used in that process and alkaline is VERY BENEFICIAL to immune health, hydration, and bone health. It's very high in antioxidants and helps the body eliminate extra acid in the GI track.
Interesting. The history of ramen in Japan seems to almost parallel the history of pizza in the United States. Both were brought into their respective countries by immigrants, then spread out across the nation, and now many areas have their own variations. I had incorrectly assumed that ramen was a Japanese creation.
@@zotac1018 Sashimi often refers to just raw fish. Often nicely presented. Might not be made into little edible sculptures with rice, but there's probably rice on the table! My superficial impression.
What's really interesting is that Tokyo style 醤油鶏青湯ラメーン is closer to Shanghai style 阳春面 than the halal pulled noodles in that the three components of the final soup is a combination of sauce, aroma oil, and broth/water; the noodle is also machine cut instead of hand-pulled so I'm really curious about the history of the original ramen in Japan
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My Japanese teacher was from Wakayama. She would often describe the difference between her homplace's broth and the one from Tokyo, where she had studied. Needless to say, we usualy left her lessons veeery hungry^^
We visited Kushiro to view the red-crowned cranes. I fell in love with the simple noodle soup the hotel had on their breakfast buffet. I like wavy noodles.
When I used to live in Southern California, there is a supermarket that has a kitchen for different restaurants come for a week at at time to sell their specialty foods. They would have ramen fair and every week I would drive 1:30 to try the different ramen. So many different styles that I can’t say there’s one that I like best. I also gained a lot of weight from so much ramen! My favorite restaurant is Shinsengumi Hakata ramen.
I am a ramen chef (not in Japan), and can't wait to go to Japan to develop more authentic recipes, so I'll make sure i go to these places you recommended!!
It seems like nearly all of the most famous dishes in Japan were only introduce in the last 1-200 years. I wonder what the main dishes were for the rest of Japanese history.
When making ordinary packet ramen (like maruchan), I usually prefer the original or mushroom flavour and only use a tiny bit of the seasoning packet; adding in garlic, ginger, chili sesame oil (gotta have that sesame oil, that makes or breaks my ramen) and furikake instead. And sometimes a poached egg and thin sliced mushrooms. It lowers the sodium content and just has a richer flavour to me.
Next time you make some packet ramen, mix up a cracked egg and pour it slowly into the ramen broth as you stir. Basically "egg drop soup" in your ramen since the egg will cook on contact with the hot broth. I've found this can add a lot of richness and silky texture to an otherwise thin and watery soup.
I would travel to Japan once every couple of years to see my great grandparents and they would always take us out to get ramen and I would always get miso I was obsessed with it
This is gonna sound biased but my favorite ramen place will always be らーめん信玄 (Ramen Shingen) in Sapporo. For those who haven't been, definitely try out their "Shinshu ramen". This bowl of ramen is maaaaaad delicious and cannot recommend this more to anyone. But yes Hokkaido and much of Tohoku IMHO has some of the best ramen out there. Always went back to eat there whenever I visited my mother's side of the family around Aomori/Iwate and Hokkaido :) Keep up the phenomenal work Shogo! Love your content!
Hokkaido Butter Miso Ramen is my favourite, due to the rich creamy texture and mild flavour. Very comforting bowl to have in chilly weather! Kumamoto Garlic Tonkotsu Ramen is another close favourite for me, I love the unique springy texture of the ramen combined with the savoury flavour of the garlic tonkotsu broth.
I can only eat halal food as a muslim, but I love the thick kind of soup broth too 🤤 In some of the Malaysian's beef soup and Indonesian's bakso broth, the beef bone and fatty meat are boiled until the richness of the fat and bone marrow blended into the soup. If the broth is made with chicken, they'll boil the chicken carcass with chicken wings or chicken feet until the rich thick broth is achieved. Yes it takes one whole day to make that, or we can use pressure cooker and boil them for a few hours. I once ate at a mamak stall that sells that kind of beef soup and they will ask if we want to add a raw egg into the thick, hot soup. The taste is, heaven... 🤤❤ And oh, thank you for the historical facts of ramen 💖 If these are included in our school history books, I'm sure more of the students (including me, when I was still in school) will love learning history more! 🤭
Not much better than a raw egg in a bowl of noodles, I do that with pho. There's another common type of ramen not mentioned in the video, tantan ramen, which adds sesame paste to the broth so it's really thick and rich. It's traditionally made with spicy ground pork, but would be great with goat or beef (beef heart would be amazing in that).
Thank you for sharing. My experience with Malaysian food is limited but what i have had was delicious and your description of the broths sounds wonderful. I would love to try them
My favorite for summer is yuzu shoyu ramen. Topped with cabbage, yellow bellpepper, broccoli and pork tenderloin or chashu. But to be honest, I love ramen so much that I haven't had a bowl that I didn't like yet😅
There's a great ramen joint where I live. I absolutely love their tantan ramen -- spicy ground pork in thick sesame broth, and scallions, with firm noodles. When I get it, I always have them add an egg and fried onions. Now I'm craving the stuff.
You have some of the very best (professional) presentations that I have seen on TH-cam.; and the presentations are, as far as I am concerned, of University quality.
I enjoyed your tour of ramen history. I have enjoyed ramen in a few Japanese restaurants. I have no clue what type they served, only that I enjoyed it. In the future, I will look for the nuances that you described. One of the great blessings in this time is enjoying the foods of so many cultures. It isn't surprising that education would add to that enjoyment.
Dear Shogo, thank you for your videos I really enjoy Japan's culture history and your culinary arts🎉🗾🇯🇵 I was wondering are there any interesting chicken or fish ramen 🍜 because due to my condition seafood pork beef etc is out of question (If someone knows that type of ramen please let me know as my only ramen option were instant soups that gave me this condition) Cheers from Poland🇵🇱 Stay well and happy 😁
I think the most popular ramen where I am, in London, is Hakata Tonkotsu ramen, which I really like, although I have found a place selling Sapporo style miso ramen as well, which I also like.
I'm only a minute into your video and already want to be friends with you 🥰 the warmth you exude is refreshing & rare. I can't wait to learn from you-Thank you!! xo
Instant ramen is great, but its not actual ramen. Its great that many countries have access to some form of ramen, but traveling to Japan and enjoying ramen would be a unique experience. One day I'll save enough, but for now Samyang and Nomshin noodles will do just fine!!
I was in Korea from 1974 to 1976 and I still love the brand and style of ramen I ate then. I have tried many other brands and flavors since then but I live in the US in an area where there is little opportunity for restaurant ramen. I really appreciate this video because it gave me ideas to create my own ramen broth and make it from scratch instead of instant.
When I went to Nagoya I ate ramen at Ichi-Ran; it was delicious~ I especially liked how customizable their ramen was. Each customer got a little survey-type paper and could choose different amounts of toppings, the strength of the broth or spices, and how much the noodles were cooked.
Wakayama ramen is my favourite, too. Surprisingly I get to eat it in Huonville, SE Tasmania where we have a small, unpretentious Japanese restaurant called Alternative.
Since Ramen is a loanword and written in Katakana, they tried to recreate the sound of it as much as they can. Since Japanese doesn’t have a letter L and R is very similar to it, they say Ramen instead of Lamen. They don’t have a syllable ye they can’t say mian [mien], so they say raMEN.
Hehe I also wonder what he thinks of the maki acevichado of Peru. It’s a on the bitter side as it’s topped with an vinaigrette sauce (made with vinegar, mayonnaise and spicy flakes), but it surprisingly works. It makes sense where it comes from considering here in Peru we also eat a lot of raw fish but marinated with lime juice instead of soy sauce (it’s very refreshing), and have a notorious Japanese community.
In 1488, there is a record in the Muromachi period monk's diary, Inryokennichiroku, that the monks ate noodles made from brine, which was introduced from the Ming dynasty.This is considered to be the same as ramen noodles. Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628-1701) of the Shogunate ate soup noodles made by Confucian scholar Zhu Zhiyu (1600-1682) from the Qing Dynasty. It was around 1910 that ramen became popular among the common people.
I have loved ramen ever since I was born so thanks for making this, also completely off topic but this reminded me of my first bowl of udon from our local Japanese quizine here in my state of georgia
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My favourite ramen is Shiro Miso ramen ( white miso ramen.) and Negi ramen (a ramen that's done with leeks.Or wakegi,( spring onions.) That's my favourite ramen.
I love love love ramen. When I feel lazy, I would go to ramen shop near me but the ones near me tend to use egg noodle, which isn’t authentic. But when I feel like cooking, I would cook my own ramen including the noodle, the broth and the char siu meat. Though to be honest, I wouldn’t know how to make authentic ramen if it wasn’t for my friend’s grandmother who would often introduce me to different Japanese dishes as well as teaching me how to make them properly
My favorite ramen is Hiiragi in Nagasaki. It's a tomato ramen that tastes like the best spaghetti soup you could ever imagine. Served with eggplant. Soft-boiled eggs and bean sprouts are optional. Also, tabasco sauce is on every table.
Very cool, have you done any videos on Yakisoba? I was stationed in Okinawa Japan and fell in love with this dish. I don’t often see it the United States though.
I'm living in Cincinnati, and yakisoba is on the menu at most Japanese restaurants near me. On the other hand I love buckwheat soba noodle soup, and can't find it. Haven't had it in over 6 years since I've moved from NY.
My first night in Japan I was taken to dinner and all I knew to order was ramen. They warned me that I might not be ordering what I expected and… It was delicious but I wasn’t prepared for the spicy hot 🥵 I lived in Okinawa a few years and miss the food, and the people, and the ocean…every day. The bento truck for lunch was a favorite.
I really want to visit Japan and eat ramen there. In Malaysia we have dozens types of noodles cooked in different ways. I still want to taste the original Japanese ramen.
There is a whole interesting history of how noodles and their ilk came about and how it has spread across the world into variants like Japanese ramen and Italian pasta. Wish someone could do a video on that.
My favorite Raman was eaten in Kyoto. I was in the city for four days... The first day I went there because it was close to my hotel. Then... then my feet just lead me there every day thereafter.
I was hoping that #1 would be Taiwan ramen, which is actually from Nagoya. It uses ground beef and is quite spicy. I loved having that when I lived in Nagoya. For me, the best ramen I've had was at a place called Sendaikko ramen, in Sendai.
Have you heard of Ivan Ramen? Started by a New Yorker who lived in Japan and adds Jewish style rye flour to his noodles. It gives Kyoto style a run for its money. I hope you get it if you’re ever in New York!
Ramen is my comfort food. I don't eat it often. I used to eat the cheap store bough "ramen" Ever since I tried authentic ramen at my local shop I never went back to the packaged. My favorites are the Shoyu and Tan-Tan and Sapporo. I hope to try it someday nonetheless Japan. 😌
Ramen was never based on lamian. Ramen is based on Cantonese or Shanghainese noodles but took the name of lamian because its old name "shina soba" was highly offensive.
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In New Zealand There Is A Lovely Sushi Restaurant I Go Too Where They Serve Chicken And Prawn Katsu Type Of Ramen 🍜🍜
It Is The Best Ramen I Have Ever Tried.
Thank you! I'll come there someday!!
Shogo! That Ramen is favorite food anime character Uzumaki Naruto
I know of ramen that have one eating Sweat after finish eating.
In the Guagdong region, we actually also use alkaline noodles for Wonton Noodle soup. We make them even thinner than Japanese ramen noodles.
That must be really delicious ❤
Yes because ramen is closer related to Cantonese noodle soups than it is to lamian. Ramen isn't actually based on lamian.
Yeah, I like the southern type of noodles more than the northern style La Mian.
@@Zz7722zZ I mean I like both for different reasons. Northern style is heartier and pairs well with bold flavors. Shanghai style noodles with pickled mustard greens is great with a piece of fried pork. Southern style is springy and goes well with wonton and fish cakes.
wonton noodle is my favorite soup noodle, I prefer it even over ramen, I would describe as even chewier than ramen. I assume the HK style and the Guandong style are one and the same btw.
My wife is Brazilian but is also half-Japanese. The Japanese side of her family (her grandparents) hails from Wakayama. We visited Wakayama back in October of last year (2021) with her father and it's a very beautiful area with rolling green hills, especially by the beach (lots of surf spots and retired Japanese who live to surf all day). The ramen and food are indeed delicious, and we want to visit Wakayama again.
If you were a tour guide I would hire you all 3 weeks that I'm visiting Japan
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He was a tour guide, I don't think he is anymore.
Shogo could make a killing as a tour guide.
He and his family and friends could run a business similar to the "hire a friend" industry, only the people getting hired act as tour guides and translators for individual tourists (rather than the giant tourist groups being shepherded around pre-determined sights and destinations).
Imagine having a local to show you around town and follow you around wherever you may want to go, and helping you with translations as well as etiquette in different places you go to.
It would probably cost more than signing up for a regular guided tour of course, but man it would be so worth it for the many tourists who are interested in going to Japan, but feel a little intimidated by the language barrier and the cultural differences.
@@sevenproxies4255 Id like this idea since as a tourist you might not know all laws, and having such a personal guide would help you lower your risk of acidentaly breaking one ^^
Wow you explain this so well! I love hearing about the history and culture of Japan. It makes learning the language that much better 🧡
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Best description and background history of ramen. Very interesting. Thank you
I had the Hokkaido ramen when my wife and friends and I visited Sapporo. It was wonderful and, along with the city's namesake beer, warmed us wonderfully after visiting the Snow festival. As for the Wakayama ramen, I think that's what a local food truck called the Ramen Rickshaw sold, only they called it Peddler's Noodles. It was so delicious that the front desk ladies in my old office knew that if the Rickshaw was around, they were to buy a large order of the Peddler's Noodles for me, tip the Rickshaw, and get a tip themselves when I was able to eat. Unfortunately for me, years ago the Rickshaw posted on Facebook that they were retiring because they achieved their goal of putting their daughter through college.
For the soup part, I'd honestly say it differs from person to person and region to region. In Guangzhou, we have very rich broth by simmering pork bones for soup for a day or two. Its interchangable honestly. For the "gyozas" we have something called the 锅贴 (guo1 tie1)
Guotie refers to pan fried jiaozi. Jiaozi is boiled
@@larshofler8298 yup, I’d agree with Ahmed. The kanji (饺子) is a clear giveaway. Similar to ramen (拉面).
我們安慶這裏叫鍋貼和煎餃都有叫，我們一般說餃子也指煎餃。😂
I was in Japan for two years (42 years ago) & must say I never had a bad meal eating the local foods. Most enjoyable & the people were extremely polite.
Something I know about Japanese ramen is about the "brine" you mentioned. It's a VERY high alkaline water used in that process and alkaline is VERY BENEFICIAL to immune health, hydration, and bone health. It's very high in antioxidants and helps the body eliminate extra acid in the GI track.
Interesting. The history of ramen in Japan seems to almost parallel the history of pizza in the United States. Both were brought into their respective countries by immigrants, then spread out across the nation, and now many areas have their own variations. I had incorrectly assumed that ramen was a Japanese creation.
I'm italian and i visited Maryland a few years ago. I can tell you that the pizza there is pretty much identical to what we have here in Rome.
I’ll blow your mind even more, Tempura is also not an original Japanese creation. It was Portuguese.
@@RadenWA And salmon sashimi was a Norwegian idea!
@@dksl9899 ........ Norwegians were into rice and fish combination? I dont even think rice even grows at that climate tbh.
@@zotac1018 Sashimi often refers to just raw fish. Often nicely presented. Might not be made into little edible sculptures with rice, but there's probably rice on the table! My superficial impression.
What's really interesting is that Tokyo style 醤油鶏青湯ラメーン is closer to Shanghai style 阳春面 than the halal pulled noodles in that the three components of the final soup is a combination of sauce, aroma oil, and broth/water; the noodle is also machine cut instead of hand-pulled so I'm really curious about the history of the original ramen in Japan
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One day, when things aren't so difficult, I plan on visiting Japan.
I am amazed that Ramen started out as Halal. I can't eat ramen right now, but I love mushroom ramen
My Japanese teacher was from Wakayama. She would often describe the difference between her homplace's broth and the one from Tokyo, where she had studied. Needless to say, we usualy left her lessons veeery hungry^^
We visited Kushiro to view the red-crowned cranes. I fell in love with the simple noodle soup the hotel had on their breakfast buffet. I like wavy noodles.
The origins is so interesting! Thanks for another great video Team Shogo!
When I used to live in Southern California, there is a supermarket that has a kitchen for different restaurants come for a week at at time to sell their specialty foods. They would have ramen fair and every week I would drive 1:30 to try the different ramen. So many different styles that I can’t say there’s one that I like best. I also gained a lot of weight from so much ramen! My favorite restaurant is Shinsengumi Hakata ramen.
I am a ramen chef (not in Japan), and can't wait to go to Japan to develop more authentic recipes, so I'll make sure i go to these places you recommended!!
Would love to see you visit Wakayama again and experience the nostalgia of eating their ramen. Would be a great video 😌
It seems like nearly all of the most famous dishes in Japan were only introduce in the last 1-200 years. I wonder what the main dishes were for the rest of Japanese history.
Japanese traditional cuisine is called Washoku
When making ordinary packet ramen (like maruchan), I usually prefer the original or mushroom flavour and only use a tiny bit of the seasoning packet; adding in garlic, ginger, chili sesame oil (gotta have that sesame oil, that makes or breaks my ramen) and furikake instead. And sometimes a poached egg and thin sliced mushrooms. It lowers the sodium content and just has a richer flavour to me.
Next time you make some packet ramen, mix up a cracked egg and pour it slowly into the ramen broth as you stir. Basically "egg drop soup" in your ramen since the egg will cook on contact with the hot broth. I've found this can add a lot of richness and silky texture to an otherwise thin and watery soup.
Next time get your hands on Sapporo Ichiban Brand. That brand of instant ramen is just way better than Maruchan.
So you buy instant ramen and throw the flavour packs away...that's noodles.
@@LaNoir. nono, I use just half the packet
What is the original flavor, is it not beef?
I would travel to Japan once every couple of years to see my great grandparents and they would always take us out to get ramen and I would always get miso I was obsessed with it
This is gonna sound biased but my favorite ramen place will always be らーめん信玄 (Ramen Shingen) in Sapporo. For those who haven't been, definitely try out their "Shinshu ramen". This bowl of ramen is maaaaaad delicious and cannot recommend this more to anyone. But yes Hokkaido and much of Tohoku IMHO has some of the best ramen out there. Always went back to eat there whenever I visited my mother's side of the family around Aomori/Iwate and Hokkaido :)
Keep up the phenomenal work Shogo! Love your content!
Hokkaido Butter Miso Ramen is my favourite, due to the rich creamy texture and mild flavour. Very comforting bowl to have in chilly weather! Kumamoto Garlic Tonkotsu Ramen is another close favourite for me, I love the unique springy texture of the ramen combined with the savoury flavour of the garlic tonkotsu broth.
I can only eat halal food as a muslim, but I love the thick kind of soup broth too 🤤 In some of the Malaysian's beef soup and Indonesian's bakso broth, the beef bone and fatty meat are boiled until the richness of the fat and bone marrow blended into the soup. If the broth is made with chicken, they'll boil the chicken carcass with chicken wings or chicken feet until the rich thick broth is achieved. Yes it takes one whole day to make that, or we can use pressure cooker and boil them for a few hours. I once ate at a mamak stall that sells that kind of beef soup and they will ask if we want to add a raw egg into the thick, hot soup. The taste is, heaven... 🤤❤
And oh, thank you for the historical facts of ramen 💖 If these are included in our school history books, I'm sure more of the students (including me, when I was still in school) will love learning history more! 🤭
Not much better than a raw egg in a bowl of noodles, I do that with pho.
There's another common type of ramen not mentioned in the video, tantan ramen, which adds sesame paste to the broth so it's really thick and rich. It's traditionally made with spicy ground pork, but would be great with goat or beef (beef heart would be amazing in that).
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Thank you for sharing. My experience with Malaysian food is limited but what i have had was delicious and your description of the broths sounds wonderful. I would love to try them
My favorite for summer is yuzu shoyu ramen. Topped with cabbage, yellow bellpepper, broccoli and pork tenderloin or chashu. But to be honest, I love ramen so much that I haven't had a bowl that I didn't like yet😅
There's a great ramen joint where I live. I absolutely love their tantan ramen -- spicy ground pork in thick sesame broth, and scallions, with firm noodles. When I get it, I always have them add an egg and fried onions. Now I'm craving the stuff.
Vietnam's noodle dishes are also fantastic and I can't recommend them enough.
As a Vietnamese, I am thankful for your appreciation of our noodle dishes
It is interesting to think why Japan has so many kinds of noodles but does not have rice noodles like Vietnam and nearby countries.
deanzaZZR Yes,I LOVE Vietnamese rice noodle dishes!
This is awesome!
Thank you for the clear explanation!!! 😊
Japanese Ramen + 40 Varieties!!!
I'll take them ALL!!! 😍🤤🍜
In fact, Japanese ramen originated from Shanghai-style noodle soup, and Lamian is a northern-style dish.
I love ramen! Thank you for sharing this information. I look forward to having ramen in Japan.
You have some of the very best (professional) presentations that I have seen on TH-cam.; and the presentations are, as far as I am concerned, of University quality.
ラーメンis a direct translation of 拉麵
Ramen = Lamian
Does it translate to pulled noodles???
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I enjoyed your tour of ramen history. I have enjoyed ramen in a few Japanese restaurants. I have no clue what type they served, only that I enjoyed it. In the future, I will look for the nuances that you described. One of the great blessings in this time is enjoying the foods of so many cultures. It isn't surprising that education would add to that enjoyment.
Dear Shogo, thank you for your videos I really enjoy Japan's culture history and your culinary arts🎉🗾🇯🇵
I was wondering are there any interesting chicken or fish ramen 🍜 because due to my condition seafood pork beef etc is out of question
(If someone knows that type of ramen please let me know as my only ramen option were instant soups that gave me this condition)
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I think the most popular ramen where I am, in London, is Hakata Tonkotsu ramen, which I really like, although I have found a place selling Sapporo style miso ramen as well, which I also like.
Thank you! A regular favorite in my home. You’ve given me ideas! Domo arrigato!
Great work!
I have just recently found this channel. I am enjoying it very much. And, yes I have subscribed. 🙇♂ どうもありがとうございます
Appreciate the history! 🍜Making me hungry now!
I'm only a minute into your video and already want to be friends with you 🥰 the warmth you exude is refreshing & rare. I can't wait to learn from you-Thank you!! xo
Forth of July here. Grilling and would TOTALLY have ramen to!
Instant ramen is great, but its not actual ramen. Its great that many countries have access to some form of ramen, but traveling to Japan and enjoying ramen would be a unique experience. One day I'll save enough, but for now Samyang and Nomshin noodles will do just fine!!
Ramen is a miracle dish. It's delicious even in instant ramen cup-form. But so much better when prepared from scratch in a restaurant.
Instant noodles are deep-fried starch, not real noodles.
@@benishan3 Real noodles are mostly boiled starch.
Where do you think starch even come from?
@@sevenproxies4255 Deep fried aren't real noodles. The dough for instant is different too, doesn't taste anything like noodles.
@@benishan3 I've had both and I can confirm that it does.
So you're just making things up.
@@sevenproxies4255 You can't tell the dif coz you don't know the dif.
I knew about ramen's origin but not with the differences, again I learn something with you, Shogo. :D
My husband grew up in Hawaii and he loves ramen so much. I always loved Japanese food.
Those ramen soups in the regions you recommended looked really delicious!
I was in Korea from 1974 to 1976 and I still love the brand and style of ramen I ate then. I have tried many other brands and flavors since then but I live in the US in an area where there is little opportunity for restaurant ramen. I really appreciate this video because it gave me ideas to create my own ramen broth and make it from scratch instead of instant.
When I went to Nagoya I ate ramen at Ichi-Ran; it was delicious~ I especially liked how customizable their ramen was. Each customer got a little survey-type paper and could choose different amounts of toppings, the strength of the broth or spices, and how much the noodles were cooked.
Wakayama ramen is my favourite, too. Surprisingly I get to eat it in Huonville, SE Tasmania where we have a small, unpretentious Japanese restaurant called Alternative.
Visiting these shops is going to the be the part of my canceled trip that I miss most of all... 😮💨
That’s what I call Lamian vs Ramen.
Same þing. Only difference is slight syllable shifts over time.
Since Ramen is a loanword and written in Katakana, they tried to recreate the sound of it as much as they can. Since Japanese doesn’t have a letter L and R is very similar to it, they say Ramen instead of Lamen. They don’t have a syllable ye they can’t say mian [mien], so they say raMEN.
@@NotABadHomie Ramen is 拉麺 in Japanese Kanji.
@@danielantony1882 and?
@@NotABadHomie Ramen isn't just written in Katakana.
I so want to see Shogo reacting to "forgein" style sushi, like mexican (deep fried) sushi. :p
California roll comes to mind. And the Brazilian abomination of combining sushi and pizza together.
Hehe I also wonder what he thinks of the maki acevichado of Peru. It’s a on the bitter side as it’s topped with an vinaigrette sauce (made with vinegar, mayonnaise and spicy flakes), but it surprisingly works. It makes sense where it comes from considering here in Peru we also eat a lot of raw fish but marinated with lime juice instead of soy sauce (it’s very refreshing), and have a notorious Japanese community.
In 1488, there is a record in the Muromachi period monk's diary, Inryokennichiroku, that the monks ate noodles made from brine, which was introduced from the Ming dynasty.This is considered to be the same as ramen noodles. Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628-1701) of the Shogunate ate soup noodles made by Confucian scholar Zhu Zhiyu (1600-1682) from the Qing Dynasty. It was around 1910 that ramen became popular among the common people.
interesting differences. thanks shogo. i'm sure both are still delicious.
I love Japan and Japanese people! The food is also great!
my favored Ramen is Miso. thanks for the video, enjoyed it a lot!
I have loved ramen ever since I was born so thanks for making this, also completely off topic but this reminded me of my first bowl of udon from our local Japanese quizine here in my state of georgia
Thanks Shogo lot's of information you're amazing 👍🥰✅
Your amazingly beautiful videos which contain knowledge and useful content are the reasons why I subscribed and like your videos.Keep up the great work.
Nice breakdown!
As I know, Japanese ramen originally called 支那麺. Some may take insult about this fact
I learn so much from your channel. And you often leave me hungry. I would love to see a similar comparison between ramen and pho
My favourite ramen is Shiro Miso ramen ( white miso ramen.) and Negi ramen (a ramen that's done with leeks.Or wakegi,( spring onions.) That's my favourite ramen.
Honmokuya Ramen, when I was in Japan it was the place I found myself going back to the most.
I love love love ramen. When I feel lazy, I would go to ramen shop near me but the ones near me tend to use egg noodle, which isn’t authentic. But when I feel like cooking, I would cook my own ramen including the noodle, the broth and the char siu meat. Though to be honest, I wouldn’t know how to make authentic ramen if it wasn’t for my friend’s grandmother who would often introduce me to different Japanese dishes as well as teaching me how to make them properly
My favorite ramen is Hiiragi in Nagasaki. It's a tomato ramen that tastes like the best spaghetti soup you could ever imagine. Served with eggplant. Soft-boiled eggs and bean sprouts are optional. Also, tabasco sauce is on every table.
Very cool, have you done any videos on Yakisoba? I was stationed in Okinawa Japan and fell in love with this dish. I don’t often see it the United States though.
I'm living in Cincinnati, and yakisoba is on the menu at most Japanese restaurants near me. On the other hand I love buckwheat soba noodle soup, and can't find it. Haven't had it in over 6 years since I've moved from NY.
My husband is from Hakata. He says that is the best.
I was surprised Hakata ramen was not in your top 3. It definitely is one of my favorites.
Come to India. I shall be your guide on local dishes here.
Great info. Thanks
I remember exactly a year ago I went to a ramen shop here in America. I had spicy ramen. It had Jalapenos in it. Absolutely delicious.
My first night in Japan I was taken to dinner and all I knew to order was ramen.
They warned me that I might not be ordering what I expected and…
It was delicious but I wasn’t prepared for the spicy hot 🥵
I lived in Okinawa a few years and miss the food, and the people, and the ocean…every day.
The bento truck for lunch was a favorite.
Even here in the Philippines (Luzon) we call this noodle soup dish, Lomien/Lomi, other names like Miki/Mami and Bihon.
I really want to visit Japan and eat ramen there. In Malaysia we have dozens types of noodles cooked in different ways. I still want to taste the original Japanese ramen.
Tonkotsu Ramen is my favorite. I like Miso Ramen, too.
Great Dish!
There is a whole interesting history of how noodles and their ilk came about and how it has spread across the world into variants like Japanese ramen and Italian pasta. Wish someone could do a video on that.
My favorite Raman was eaten in Kyoto. I was in the city for four days... The first day I went there because it was close to my hotel. Then... then my feet just lead me there every day thereafter.
South Korea has a noodle similar to ramen called Ramyun
Lamian or Ramen, I love them all!
Everything I know about ramen, I learned from タンポポ .
I was hoping that #1 would be Taiwan ramen, which is actually from Nagoya. It uses ground beef and is quite spicy. I loved having that when I lived in Nagoya. For me, the best ramen I've had was at a place called Sendaikko ramen, in Sendai.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that wakayama ramen is the best! It's a whole different level
Ramen is also a staple food for college students. I lived off ramen and Mac & cheese for four years!!
Have you heard of Ivan Ramen? Started by a New Yorker who lived in Japan and adds Jewish style rye flour to his noodles. It gives Kyoto style a run for its money. I hope you get it if you’re ever in New York!
Awesome video, very informative about the history of ramen! 👏🏻
Did you know Hawaii has saimin?
Saimin noodle’s dough has more eggs and a higher amount of flour, which gives it an intense flavor and chewy texture.
Sadly in the UK and not in London I make my own versions of the same concept, but lovely to know the difference 😛
This was very interesting
This is interesting.
And I thought how Ramen is a Japanese Dish!
Ramen is my comfort food. I don't eat it often. I used to eat the cheap store bough "ramen" Ever since I tried authentic ramen at my local shop I never went back to the packaged.
My favorites are the Shoyu and Tan-Tan and Sapporo.
I hope to try it someday nonetheless Japan. 😌
Ramen was never based on lamian. Ramen is based on Cantonese or Shanghainese noodles but took the name of lamian because its old name "shina soba" was highly offensive.
He omitted a huge part of Japanese Ramen history...
Offensive why?
@@GWT1m0 wow ur getting pissed over a japanese guy talking abt ramen
In USA, ramen is on the shelf next to Japanese things like Hi-chew.
Most Americans consider ramen to be Japanese.