This is yet another installment of my “how to eat… series. Today, I’ll be showing you how to prepare and actually eat ramen. Now, I’m not talking about the cheap-o Top Ramen or Maruchan Ramen noodles.
I’m not even talking about the “instant ramen that comes in dehydrated blocks of noodles. I’m talking about “real ramen. I give you exhibit A. What you’re seeing here is a bag of “real ramen, and what I mean by that is that the ramen noodles are “fresh and not dehydrated.
Inside you’ll find 3 packets of ramen noodles, with 3 packets of soy sauce based soup base. None of this is powder folks.
Now, first you want to put the soup base in your bowl, as show in exhibit C and D. Once you have that set up, you can start boiling your water and getting ready to put the noodles in the water.
Once you get your water to a rolling boil, insert your ramen noodles. Because the ramens are not dehydrated blocks (yay!), it won’t take very long to cook them. You’re talking maybe 3 minutes. you want to be able to cook them well for 3 minutes because they are very starchy and it’s a good thing to get rid of that. Here’s a short video on what the boiling ramen should look like:
After your 3 minutes are up, you want to drain your noodles well, and make sure most of the water is out of them. You don’t want to rinse them at all. There’s no need to do so. Then make sure you put hot water into the ramen bowl with the soup base, and now you’ll have a bowl of soup.
Carefully drop the noodles into the soup. Then you’re done making ramen! It’s rather very simple. Once you are done, feel free to add any toppings you’d like, I’m particularly fond of sliced boiled eggs, bamboo shoots, nori (seaweed), and naruto, which is a swirly type of Kamaboko. You can see it in the end result below:
What follows from this time is an educational video, brought to you by yours truly. Please keep an open mind when viewing this. The slurping is perfectly normal.
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