![]() ![]() And the noodles were … pretty decent, actually. ![]() The soup, while not possessing an overly convincing crab flavor, nevertheless had good heat to it. Dried veggies and crab bits leaned sweet but worked along with the salty broth. So my expectations weren’t particularly high: How much can one earnestly rely on a gluten-free cookie or vegan cake to be delicious? I was, therefore, pleasantly surprised. It seems like Pulmuone is trying to market these as some kind of health-food ramen - making a point to note that the noodles are air-dried, as opposed to fried, and that a serving contains a mere 2 grams of fat, significantly less than the 14-plus grams your average noodle cup can contain. Does this ramen taste like an Asian person, or a carpet? I’ll lick my arm later and get back to you. “Oriental,” incidentally, is used to describe rugs, not people, so I’ll chalk this name change up to some sort of progress. The flavor is one that transports some of us back to after-school snacks and first cooking experiences or late-night college dorm hangouts. Regardless, the ramen does taste just like I remember it: It’s salty with a hint of sweetness and just a tinge of spice to make it interesting, with notes of soy sauce and ginger. The packaging on this soy sauce-flavored ramen reads “same Oriental flavor.” It wasn’t that long ago that it was sold as Oriental-flavored Top Ramen, which got me thinking that at some point in the near recent past, some Nissin execs all got around a conference table and said, “So, Yoshi, what about about that word ‘Oriental?’ Problem?” “I dunno, Tomoyo, what do you think?” In the end, it appears that they officially got rid of the word to describe the ramen, but … also kept the word on the packaging. Does it taste like the thing it purports to taste like? Does the shrimp ramen taste like shrimp? Does the chicken taste like chicken? For this rankings, I have suffered and my extremities have swelled my blood pressure has approximately trebled. I’ve ranked the ramens based on two metrics: taste and something I call Truth in Advertising, or T.I.A. But I endeavored to cover a broad swath of the noodle spectrum and keep it to no more than three (3) varieties per brand. I could not, obviously, include all ramens in this piece. For the purposes of this rankings, I have eaten every variety of ramen in the known universe and have come up with an infallible ratings system to rank the 31 types listed below. I am happy - elated, even - to present to you the totally inarguable, airtight and utterly incontrovertible L.A. I don’t have anything new to say about the terrible things happening in our country right now, so let’s get right to it, shall we? ![]() Thank you for watching our new online series, “Off Menu” (you’ve been watching, right?) and subscribing to our brand-new baby bird YouTube channel. ![]()
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