Japanese posts on Food in Mouth
If there’s one philosophy that I’ve adopted over the years when it comes to life, it’s this: fuck work. Yea yea, you gotta pay your bills, but generally work shouldn’t be taken so seriously unless you’re one of the select few that’s either rich or loves your job. Good for you asshole. But for the rest of us, I think it’s important to never leave your vacation days on the table. Too bad if your boss isn’t accommodating to you taking days off. Those days are yours, just fucking use them. How to use them is tough though. I have four days left for 2014 and I’m not sure whether to disperse them to have multiple three day weekends or just to have a really long weekend once? Decisions, decisions… Steph and I had already been to Ivan Ramen Slurp Shop in Gotham West Market, but I had never tried their rice bowls…. [Continue reading]
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September 22, 2014 at 11:06 am
It’s hard not to remember a ramen that made your butthole burn. I mean this in the best way possible. In fact between my mouth being on fire from eating the spicy red chili ramen from Ivan Ramen until when it burned through the hole where the sun don’t shine was only six hours. Before we talk more about how a tasty delicious ramen turned my bung hole into Mount Vesuvius, let’s talk about other aspects of Ivan Ramen. The first thing is that a line forms outside of the Lower East Side restaurant prior to their dinner hours starting. And if can snatch one while the weather is good, sit out in their back yard area. It’s super nice…. [Continue reading]
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August 5, 2014 at 11:50 am
Often folks forget about good food that isn’t repeatedly in the spot light. Or so I thought when Steph and I tried to go to Minca one afternoon this past winter. You wouldn’t think that going to eat ramen at like three in the afternoon would require a wait, but it did. When there’s a wait, I always end up thinking about who else are the folks that are eating at the restaurant at the moment. There were definitely some younger folks, probably NYU students from the area. There was also a table of women who had shopping bags, spoke to each other in Mandarin, but then ordered in English and asked for extra extra spicy. The natural thought was, “I hope someone in her life smacks her in the face.” Wait what, was that bad? I suppose some people’s natural pretension is obvious. Of course there were plenty of other strangers I didn’t notice at all…. [Continue reading]
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June 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm
New York might be a ramen slurp worthy town according to Pete Wells, although in reality I think what New Yorkers really like are bold flavors. When people talk about Japanese food, it’s always about how simple and elegant it is. With ramen, that probably would be the shio and shoyu style of ramen. And yet in the top ten for NYTimes, it’s full of spicy, miso, tonkatsu, or even green curry ramen. About as subtle as Letterman’s retirement announcement. But in the top ten, only two are either shio or shoyu ramen. And while he has Ivan’s Slurp Shop number two, it seems like if you talk to a normal person who’s not like, ‘OMG I just love the subtlety of good sushi for $300 per person,’ it seems like tonkatsu or even green curry broth is leading the way…. [Continue reading]
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April 21, 2014 at 2:23 am
When I was young, when women shook their asses, we just drooled and said that women were shaking their asses. Apparently all along the word for it was ‘twerking‘. Basically as I go along in life, there’s always the unknown that surrounds me, and from that I try to distill what is need-to-know. But there’s obviously things I don’t even care to know. It’s like I’m sure uber successful folks aren’t caught up on Breaking Bad and reading Alan Sepinwall’s recap in hitfix and Andy Greenwald’s on Grantland. Successful (non-entertainment) people aren’t so into being a TV consumer that they need that. To that end, there was an article on food republic with Ivan Orkin about ramen. Main takeaway from the interview is that he thinks the ramen scene in New York is still in its infancy and that it doesn’t have a Japanese flavor to it. And I think most consumers would say, “I believe you and that’s fine for now. I’ll take the classics.”… [Continue reading]
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August 27, 2013 at 6:48 pm
One thing that’s nice about New York is that it’s possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel… [more]
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October 22, 2015 at 1:12 am 
We went to check out the new-ish Whitney Museum by the Meatpacking District the other week. The weather was gorgeous and you could see the Freedom Tower… [more]
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October 18, 2015 at 5:00 pm 
The long goodbye is always the hardest. And while school happens and time passes, we still have to find ways to pass the time, and to fill our bellies…. [more]
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October 9, 2015 at 1:03 am 
At some point in my life, instead of going to the school that was a five minute bike ride away from my house, I got bussed into an inner city school… [more]
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October 1, 2015 at 1:22 am 
One of the benefits of marrying someone who is very different from me is that there are new food items to grow to love. Kouign Amann is a buttery pastry… [more]
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September 30, 2015 at 1:54 am