Delicious ramen
We ate at Ramen Halu today! It was great! A spontaneous mobile-iPhone-Google-Voice review follows:
Juice FAIL
So I got a bottle of fig juice and was wondering what to do with it. If you find yourself in the same position do not visit the maker’s website. I wanted recipes, not a flash carousel. Dumbasses.
Obvious, really
1. Attended a thing tonight in which two ramen experts declared that there is no great ramen in San Francisco. I have heard this sentiment before.
2. One of the experts lamented the extinction of the Japanese ramen cart, which exists only to promote tourism and on ramen packages nowadays.
3. San Francisco seems to be awfully fond of food carts these days, health regulations notwithstanding.
The outcome seems pretty clear to me, I hope whoever undertakes the ramen cart hurries up, I’m getting hungry.
Failing that, there’s Santa, Halu, and Oyaji
Tech fail
From twitter, of all places:
@qwzybug and @smallsociety rocked out the @wholefoods app today! http://tinyurl.com/wfmiphone
My comment:
pyoon: hey good thing i read about this on twitter instead of hearing about it at whole foods WHERE I WORK
Srsly. Nothing today either. Funny thing, the store I work at is almost literally across the street from where WWDC was held a couple weeks ago. The people who wrote this application were probably there. They might work for Whole Foods. This place is lousy with iPhones. Huh.
Now we’re getting somewhere
According to the pedia, if you’re going to make ramen noodles you’ll need flour, water, salt (I assume NaCl), and either Sodium Carbonate or Potassium Carbonate, or both to make an alkaline solution (kansui). Supposedly this solution is similar to well water in the regions where these noodles were invented, and gives them their characteristic yellow color and springiness. I love that the Cereal Chemistry abstract reads like a recipe, and that they suggest a 9:1 ratio for Na to K.
Oh plus you can totally buy both of these chemicals online. They’re used in such low concentrations I have to admit not being all that worried about any potential contaminants, especially for the reagent grade versions. I just hope they’re not used to make meth or something, boy would that be embarrassing.