Humors

Posted at cockeyed.com under “what’s inside” category.

Hilariously fun documentary with lot of pics from the great crews at cockeyed, which also have other equally hilarious source of information.

Excerpt:

“The final numbers were tallied and calculated: 2,049.5 inches of noodle, more than 170 feet!

Noodle News

Excerpt from AP news posted Sep. 21, 2005 by Han Greimel:

“Starting next month, Nissin Food Products Co. will film a promotional spot on the International Space Station for Cup Noodle, featuring a sales pitch by a hungry Russian cosmonaut.”

Recipes & Tips

This English version link to Healthy Recipe is part of the official Instant Ramen site of the Japan Convenience Food Industry Assoc.

These are good intermediate skill level recipes with step by step instruction and pictorial. Good ways to learn better techniques.

Partial Table of Content:

• Minestone-style ramen
• Ramen cabbage rolls
• Ramen with scallions
• Sweet & Sour Pork Ramen with Thick Sauce
• Sanriku Curry Ramen

The rest of the site is very interesting too, if you want to learn more about instant ramen facts.

Food For Thought

Mageirocophobia refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of cooking.

Humors

Junk Food Review - by John & Wilson.

Excerpt:

“These are definitely weird but I just kept popping them… Watch out for the pits.”

Two dudes in a photo essay type review with talking bubble captions on asian junk foods. There are two parts and the second part get even better.

Recipes & Tips

A healthy use of 3 minutes instant ramen pack:

1. Boil 2 to 3 cups of water in pot.
2. Fill half of a soup bowl with the boiling water.
3. Now add the noodles into remaining water and simmer 2 1/2 minutes.
4. When ready, drain out cooking water over sink and put the noodles into soup bowl (from step 2.)
5. Add chopped onion or scallion, luncheon meat, egg, etc., a little sesame oil or olive oil, and favorite seasonings to taste.

The reason for draining the noodle separately like pasta is to remove the oil from the fried noodles. Doing your own recipe, you get a nice healthy quick meal.

Scrapbook

Humors

The Complete Idiot’s Guide - by Hong-Gan.

Excerpt:

“THANKS man Skinny Beng, you’ve changed my life forever now I can be free and confident knowing that I finally know how to cook a real bowl of instant …”

Humors

Wednesdays by Tim Peers ©2001

Excerpt:

“He was about to leave when he realized that he was missing something. Ah, there it was, he clapped in excitement. Prancing over, he scooped up the ramen that had been dropped beside him earlier and skipped out the front door…”

Noodle News

An excerpt from “A City’s Open Wounds,” by Scott Gold - Times Staff Writer, posted Fri Sep. 2 2005:

“In the next two days, the water rose — to ankles, to knees and, finally, to their chins. They made themselves a fort, stacking a sofa on top of two end tables, a futon on top of the sofa and a rubber mattress on top of the futon. The ceiling was a foot from their face when they climbed up the furniture.

Snakes came. Dead squirrels floated by. Love tried to rescue the neighbor’s dog that was chained to a nearby fence, but the animal tried to bite him. The dog died, and his carcass, draped over the fence under the blazing sun, began to rot. A body was also drifting nearby. The smell became unbearable.

On Thursday, fire ants floated in and attacked Love and Burbin, crawling onto their legs, into their hair. That was the last straw. They grabbed their last pack of hot dogs and a package of dry ramen noodles and made a run for it, …”