Ramen

I was in Seattle the other day when my wife suggested a restaurant that someone else told us about. I'm down to try just about anything. It was a ramen place, but they had bacon ramen on the menu. That got us thinking; I wonder how well a ramen restaurant would do in Yakima.

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After years of lamenting about it, I'm happy to announce that Yakima finally has a restaurant that serves ramen. This isn't your '10 for a dollar' style ramen, either. This stuff is legit.

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You may have seen Momofuku Ando trending today. He would've been 105 today, but lived a very long life. He was one of the original inventors of instant ramen. Because of that, he's one of the reasons I'm alive today as that was a staple food of mine growing up. You don't just have to make it the traditional way, either. Here's a few simple things you can do.

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When I was visiting Seattle this past weekend, we had it in mind to find a place that serves ramen. I'm not talking about your 10 packs of dehydrated noodles for a dollar-style ramen, but the real stuff the cheap ramen is inspired by. Naturally, this begged our question: "Why doesn't Yakima have a place to get ramen?"

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Many of us grew up on ramen. It's a Japanese noodle soup and it's one of the cheapest items in any grocery store. Because of that, ramen, in America, holds a notion that ramen is cheap food for cheap people. That is not the case. If you've ever been to a restaurant and had real ramen, you'll know what I'm talking about. Someone decided to make ramen from stratch, from the stock to the noodles, and documented every step of the way for you to make it at home for yourself.

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Beards are getting out of control, nowadays. Men showing off their manliness by how long or groomed their beard is. Although I honestly believe that a long, burly beard is the 2010 version of the 'mullet', this guy can do some pretty amazing things with his beard including morphing it into a bowl to eat noodles from.

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