Ramen

The Seattle Met has released it's list of the best restaurants across Washington state. 3 of them are in Yakima!

It's National Noodle day and we have the perfect list of food around the Yakima Valley to help you celebrate.

Whether you are new to Yakima or are an old-timer, you are bound to find a new restaurant to try from this curated list.

Like many, I grew up with the instant ramen you find cheap in stores. It was one of the few things I was comfortable making myself when my parents weren't available. I always just kind of figured that's what ramen was. I was very wrong later in life when I attended my first ramen restaurant about 20 years ago in Hawaii. Comparing real ramen to top ramen is like comparing oil paintings to color-by-

Captain Crab & Ramen will change your view on what ramen is supposed to taste like.

Can you bottle ramen broth? Really? Let's find out.

On Sunday my wife suggested we all take a road trip to Tri-Cities. At first I didn't think much of it until I remember her saying they had a restaurant that serves legit ramen -- something I've been vying for in Yakima for years. I figured 'why not' and glad I did.

I know it's the cheapest of the cheap, but my kids and I love ramen. My daughter pointed something out that I never noticed before on a ramen pack that is something that I can almost promise nobody has paid attention to.

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.

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.

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.

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?"