Tag Archives: Boom Noodle

March 13, 2014 | 25 Comments

What’s Wrong with Ramen in Seattle? It’s Wramen.

If you’re trying to make authentic Japanese ramen, continue to call it by its original name: ramen. But if you’re not trying to be authentic, then let’s call your creation something new: Wramen.
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January 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Mein Man: Boom Noodle Takes You to Tokyo with Its Ramen

Dish: Tokyo Ramen Place: Boom Noodle, Bellevue (also in Capitol Hill and University Village) Price: $10.95 In the bowl: Chashu (braised pork butt), tamago (egg), menma (bamboo shoots), green onion, and a piece of nori (seaweed) in soy seasoned chicken-pork broth Supporting cast/What to do:…
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January 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

Bowled Over by Ramen

You don't have to go to Japan to get a good bowl of ramen. Reporting for Northwest Palate magazine, here are some I sampled in the Pacific Northwest.
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October 1, 2009 | 0 Comments

A Harvest of Life, A Harvest of Death (Sound 9/09)

Two chefs pay tribute to the quicklime girl In the fall when plants return By harvest time she knows the score Ripe and ready to the eye Yet rotten somehow to the core And they call her Quicklime girl…Behind her back Quicklime girl…Behind the bush…
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October 1, 2009 | 0 Comments

A Harvest of Life, A Harvest of Death (Sound 9/09): More photos

Here are the photos (taken by me, excluding ART’s dessert, taken by Rina Jordan) of the rest of the dishes from the “Mistress of the Salmon Salt” Dish-Off in September’s issue of Sound magazine. You can find the full report, include menus, here. Click to…
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