All You Can Eat: Slurping Your Way To Better Ramen

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ramen shops have popped up all over the Bay Area dishing out bowls of the classic Japanese comfort food. But members of the Japanese diaspora have long been disappointed by the offerings here. The broth is a little thin. The noodles can be a bit meh. Many wonder why their favorite dish to cure a hangover isn’t as good as what they can get standing at the bar of a ramen shop located on the platform of a Tokyo train station. The desire for a better bowl of ramen has propelled a handful of Bay Area residents to try their hand at improving on the dish by making a better noodle or changing up the recipe for the broth. In our latest edition of All You Can Eat, our series on Bay Area food cultures with KQED food editor Luke Tsai, we’ll talk about innovations in ramen and where you can find the best slurp around. What’s your favorite ramen restaurant? Guests: Clint Tan, founder and owner, Noodle in a Haystack Luke Tsai , food editor, KQED Arts & Culture Shotaro Uchida, founder and owner, Iseya Craft Noodle Kayoko Akabori, founder and owner, Umami Mart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.6	In the Bay Area, I doubt there is a more beloved food than ramen.
1:10.1	The beautiful steaming broth and springy noodles have an appeal that unites the work-a-day dinner and serious culinary production.
1:13.0	But does our ramen lack something that the great shops of Japan have?
1:17.7	Do we have the right ecosystem of food producers to create the ramen scene that this food-obsessed region deserves?
1:25.0	In this edition of All You Can eat with Luke Sy, our collaboration with
1:28.2	the KQED food team, we consider the nature and craft of ramen. Instant lunch omicasse.
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1:49.7	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:51.8	Raman.
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