Recent Posts
ramen ramen ramen
Return To Blog Listing
instant ramen reviews! ramen house reviews! ramen news! everything ramen!
Recent Posts Tagged With 'ramen news'
mitsuwa fall gourmet food fair
I’m sick so I’m literally copying-n-pasting this from Mitsuwa’s web site. Sorry for plagiarizing. And remember to wash your hands, kids! Cough…cough…thud… First of all, an in dispensable master of our event, “S...
ramen pin update
All the cool (cough) people are wearing it, and now it’s available in Tonkotsu “flavor”…it’s the ramen lapel pin! Buy your favorite flavor or buy both. Heck, buy a dozen; they’re small! And now with a lower shippi...
Momozono Robot Ramen
Momozono Robot Ramen isn’t just another ramenya in Japan. Shop owner Yoshihara Uchida had a dream, and 20 million yen and 7 years later, he’s got…a robot…that cooks ramen! The noodles are still cooked by a human, but the robot...
“for the love of ramen”
For those of you in the Bay Area next week, what’re you doing Wednesday night? If you’re a ramen fan, the answer should be “I’m gonna be at the For the Love of Ramen event! Duh!” That’s right, next Wednesday the 2...
another mitsuwa ramen fair
Chibakiya is coming to Costa Mesa with their Shina Soba! 6/4(Thu) - 6/7(Sun) Costa Mesa Store 6/11(Thu) - 6/14(Sun) New Jersey Store Just in time! I’ve been having cravings for hanjuku eggs recently. And if you prefer miso ramen and/or live in...
torrance ramen alert…
Those of you who missed out on the limited edition at Santouka last month now have another chance. The Santouka Ramen in the Torrance Mitsuwa is now offering the Awase Aji ramen. As with before, the ramen is limited to 20 bowls a day, and the event ...
ramen alert…ramen alert…ramen alert…
They’re doing it again! A few weeks ago, Santouka Ramen offered a special toromi shoyu ramen, limited to 20 bowls a day. Now they’re back with another special ramen, also limited to 20 bowls a day, and limited only to the Costa Mesa stor...
chocolate ramen
In time for Valentine’s Day, Lotte has teamed up with ramen shop Menya Musashi 麺屋武蔵 (with several branches in the Tokyo area) to create a chocolate flavored ramen. The ramen will be called Ghana Miso (Ghana is one of Lotte’s bran...
cup noodle vending machine
Cup Noodle fanatics rejoice (at least if you’re in Japan. Cup Noodle fans in other countries can simply sulk in the corner)! Enter the My Vending Machine contest before the end of March to win one of 3000 home Cup Noodle vending machines! I...
finally, the Ramen Girl
It’s about freaking time! After waiting for a long long time, and after literally months of fruitless enquiries to media 8 entertainment (a hearty “I hope your ramen is limp” to media 8!), I’m happy to report that the Ramen G...
North Korea invents “Super Ramen”
“North Korean scientists have created a new type of noodle that has twice as much protein and fives times as much fat as ordinary ramen.” –wait, did I read that right? North Korea? Apparently, a technologically-advanced team of Nor...
Japanese Cup Noodle recall (in Japan)
An elderly woman in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, became ill after eating a Nissin Cup Noodle. After an examination, paradichlorobenzene, which is used in mothballs and insect repellent, was found in the soup. The specific Cup Noodle was traced back t...
mitsuwa hokkaido fair
In case you missed the previous ramen festival in February, Mitsuwa japanese supermarket is having a Hokkaido Fair, featuring two of the previously featured ramenyas and apparently introducing highly rated Santouka Ramen to the San Jose Store. Shoyu...
happy 50th birthday, chicken ramen!
Chikin Ramen (and yes, that is the correct “Japanese” spelling) went on sale today, 50 years ago, in 1958. Chikin Ramen was the brainchild of Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant ramen and founder of Nissin Foods (maker of Cup Noodles). A ...
lucky 080808 ramen links
Love ramen? Check! Wanna be on TV? Check! Live in NYC? Doh! If you’re a ramen fan in New York, Nippon TV wants to interview you! Instant ramen prices have already gone up in China and Korea. Japanese companies are getting ready for another roun...
the ramen girl trailer
It’s been over two years since we reported on the Ramen Girl, a movie about an American woman (Brittany Murphy) stranded in Japan, who ends up learning how to make ramen. Even though it’s starting to look like the movie might go straig...
current ramen trends
Food manufacturer Kinrei teamed up with Japan’s Sunday Mainichi Weekly magazine to research and produce Hakodate Flavor Salt Ramen, a packaged cold ramen reflective of ramen in the Hakodate region in Hokkaido. The Hakodate ramen uses local ing...
world’s smallest ramen bowl
So we all know what a big bowl of ramen looks like. What about a microscopic bowl? An engineering professor and his students at the University of Tokyo have created the world’s smallest bowl of ramen, complete with (unedible) “noodles...
mitsuwa umaimono gourmet fair
Hot on the trails of their last ramen festival, Japanese supermarket chain Mitsuwa Marketplace is holding a Umaimono Gourmet Food Fair (roughly translated as “yummy stuff” food fair), complete with two very different types of ramen along...
ramen news exclusive: new cup noodles flavor
Ramenramenramen has learned that Nissin is introducing a limited edition Cup Noodles to select markets across the U.S. The new flavor, called simply “MSG flavor,” was created in response to the overwhelming popularity of MSG flavoring. &...
ippudo. ramen king
I don’t normally shill for ramenyas that haven’t opened yet, especially one that I haven’t tried first hand, but in this case, I’ll make an exception. Shigemi Kawahara, “Ramen King”, will be opening the first Amer...
korea in ramen news
Korea seems to be having a lot of problems with ramen recently. On one hand, Korea Beat is reporting that some Korean schools are banning ramen in the fight against childhood obesity and malnutrition. But then again, the Chosun Ilbo Korean newspaper...
there will be ramen!
More Hello Kitty ramen madness. But I gotta say, I’ve never seen “ogre ramen-making kitty” before! As in NYC, ramen in Vancouver seems to be experiencing somewhat of a renaissance. Either that, or there’s not a lot of news ha...
china-made gyoza and food poisoning
It seems like no good news comes out of China these days. A Chinese brand of gyoza linked to a series of illnesses in Japan has been found to contain high levels of insecticide, and has sparked panic across the country. There are speculations that t...
mitsuwa ramen festival
Jealous that Japan has all the ramen events? Southern California, our time has come! Japanese supermarket chain Mitsuwa is having a “Legendary Ramen Festival” featuring 3, count ‘em, 3 famous ramenyas from Japan. And yes, the link i...
birthday links
According to Businessweek’s Asia’s Hot Growth Companies: 2007, the #1 growth company in Asia isn’t an electronics company. It’s not a cell phone company, a bank, or any other type of company you would normally associate with ...
happy birthday to us!
Three years ago today, ramenramenramen burst forth from our ramen bowl and onto the interwebs to share our love of ramen with you. To celebrate, we’ve completely remodeled our site and added new features! If you’re new to the site, please...
iron chef: ramen!
Apparently, now is a really good time for fellow ramen blogger Keizo to be in Japan. The Aqua City mall in Odaiba, Japan has set up (for a limited time only!) a “ramen hall” featuring 6 different regional styles of ramen, complete with i...
“green ramen” followup
Almost a year after we reported on Nissin’s new refillable Cup Noodles, environmental blog treehugger steps in with more details and pictures. I really like the fact that you can design your own cup liner, and as much as I’d have a blast...
ramen art
South Korean artist Sang-Wook Lee creates works of art…from instant ramen! One art show used 20,000 packages of instant ramen and took him and his volunteer students 5 days just to open the packages! Check out the amazing video of his art at ...
