Posts Tagged ‘ ramen ’
NOTE: This place is now closed, and a new Benkei Ramen is opening up in its place. Noodle Express on Thurlow has been around for over 15 years, serving Japanese and Chinese food, but most notably from their sign, ramen. Only minutes walk from the office, we had to check it out in case it was the [ READ MORE ]
ESR² = eat snap repeat repeat = when we blog a place repeatedly. If you’re a regular esr reader, you’ll know that we’re crazy about ramen – and that my favorite ramen joint in Vancouver is Kintaro. Love it. Growing up, I ate a lot of instant noodles. Like a few packs a week. It’s what my grandma [ READ MORE ]
This dining experience is from September 2008 while I was in London, England. I spent over a month in London; this was actually my first meal there. I didn’t feel like blogging it at the time; we don’t blog all of our meals – you probably don’t want to know about the PB&J sandwich I had [ READ MORE ]
Ezogiku is one of the first ramen joints planted in downtown Vancouver (they’ve planted a few more around the world since) and also where I had my first taste of ramen over a decade ago. I do vaguely recall a few things that made an impression on me during that one faithful lunch time visit [ READ MORE ]
Kintaro is the Vancouver standard for ramen. Ruling the egg noodle in rich broth kingdom with one hot cousin by its side. If you had the bonitos to challenge that authority by opening up another ramen shop on the same street block, what might you do to avoid a quick and shameful death? Make a good [ READ MORE ]
