Ramen posts on Food in Mouth
Sometimes wifey and I have serious adult conversations, such as when she told me a child at school had lice and we might have to comb each other’s hair to look for the pesky lil shits. Oh and this conversation happened on texting so I responded with the hysterically crying emoji. See, adult conversations. But really sometimes we go over possible bad outcomes before we leave New York, such as me losing my job. (insert hysterically crying emojis…) When we talk about it, I always get the feeling of, “Why are we still here?” Truthfully this is a question I asked about a bowl of ramen in Brooklyn the other day. Like, it’s just average… why is it still here?… [Continue reading]
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October 29, 2015 at 8:53 pm
People looooove jokes about first world problems. For example, I just saw a rental apartment in Brooklyn where there was no sink in the lone bathroom in the apartment. It’s pathetic only because when lengths people tolerate in order to live in NYC. It’s obviously entirely fine when one considers there’s tons of people living in refugee camps due to civil unrest. It’s an example of (relatively to the world) rich folks complaining about having made it. Sinks! This is the same as a person saying ramen is dead. Of course you can say it, Mister Multi-millionaire of the 1% of restaurateurs. Nice when you looking down, huh?… [Continue reading]
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April 5, 2015 at 2:27 pm
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
I am a dad now! It’s only been about a month, and it’s as surreal to write that now was it was when my son first came into the world. Being… [more]
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February 29, 2016 at 2:27 am 
For the food loving couple that’s hobbled by the exclamation of, “I’m getting too old for this,” there’s some usefulness in food courts…. [more]
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January 10, 2016 at 1:12 am 
When the semester cycles to an end, my brain basically cannot fit everything all in, and that’s why the blog has really suffered. My plan for the… [more]
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December 31, 2015 at 8:39 pm 
The other day wifey and I woke up at 3 am and took the train into the city. Weather had not yet turned cold. It wasn’t the kind of wind that would… [more]
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November 30, 2015 at 9:54 pm 
Sometimes wifey and I have serious adult conversations, such as when she told me a child at school had lice and we might have to comb each other’s… [more]
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October 29, 2015 at 8:53 pm