Tasty Ramen
October 17, 2006

Ramen happens to be one of my favorite food products. I purchase the flats of it, and it comprises my lunch or at least my snack almost every day of the week. Did you know that Ramen is actually a quite delicious and sometimes lavish and expensive soup rooted in China, but popularized by Japan?

Did you also know that those bricks of Instant Ramen noodles and dried soup powder can be doctored up to make a very tasty and simple soup? You will require these ingredients that you probably have onhand:

• Some precooked beef or chicken; as much as you like. It can be cooked plain with butter, or stir fried in Soy Sauce or Teryaki for extra flavor.
• Soy Sauce (a couple dashes)
• Two chopped Green Onions
• One Clove Garlic
• A tea(or table, depending on your healthiness)spoon of vegetable oil
• One Egg
• The obvious pack of Instant Ramen
• Bok Choy is a nice addition if you've got it. I've used Spinach (FRESH!) in the past with no ill results

You've got that in your fridge, right? I thought you did.

Simply boil the water and mix all above ingredients. I prefer to add the egg towards the end, just crack it and plop it in. I tend to seperate it halfway through it's cooking process right along the yolk (so you don't get a mess of runny yolk throughout your ramen).

Just cook everything until the egg is done, and you've got delicious ramen! Serve in Japenese style bowls with chopsticks (just chopsticks!) for extra tastiness. Drink directly from the bowl and slurp up the noodles with your chopsticks, because as we all know soup noodles are not tasty until slurped!

* Wikipedia has a nice article on ramen with lots of tantalizing pictures.

** Yes, as demonstrated in many anime and in Wikipedia's article on Japanese Dining Manners - it does appear to be quite acceptable and expected to slurp your soup noodles. Truthfully, before the Wikipedia article - I always thought that the anime renditions were always accentuated. James, correct me if I'm wrong.