The Perfect Bowl of Ramen

for as long as I can remember, I have wanted to run a ramen shop. In reality, this began after I watched Tampopo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo for the first time back in high school. The zen of ramen is something that i fell in love with and although I never pursued the art of soup-MAKING, I excel at the art of soup-EATING. I seek out ramen houses wherever I go, looking for the exceptional… the perfect bowl of ramen.

I can hardly believe it. I finally found that perfect bowl of ramen and it’s only a few blocks away from my house… Shoki Ramen House… 2675 24th St in Sacramento… BOMB FREAKIN DIGGITY

The soup is lovingly cooked for 6 hours and so is the pork… jewels of fat glistening on top of the soup… there are only 2 choices of soup base… shoyu or sea salt… a few different options if you want vegetables… no gimmicks… no ultra spicy challenges… no teriyaki… just stunning noodles.

simple… elegant… refined… it makes me want to learn to be a ramen chef. My bowls of ramen are definately better than say TOP ramen, but nothing compared to this. They also serve this premium imported brown rice if you ask for it… makes my tongue jolly.

So yeah there’s my pick of the month for you… I was going to take my coworkers here today for lunch but the sacramento bee ran this article 2 days ago: www.sacbee.com/117/story/475196-p2.html and I am pretty sure that there will be a line out the damn door today.

Tags: cooking, food, ramen

1 Comment to The Perfect Bowl of Ramen

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   Aaron
   24 Fri, November 9, 2007 – 11:44 AM
   >makes my tongue jolly.< Hahaha

   Damn you and your food blogs before lunch!
   Its too bad that it would take my whole lunchbreak just to drive far enough away from Auburn to get even near a ramen house. Auburn is teh suxor for food…
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   blossom
   10 Fri, November 9, 2007 – 12:10 PM
   I’m goin’ this weekend. I can’t stand it anymore.
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   AndrewKroma
   265 Fri, November 9, 2007 – 12:11 PM
   Swami, if you like soup, check out the Soup of Manifestation..
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   Bo
   287 Fri, November 9, 2007 – 1:41 PM
   I fuckin’ love Shoki. Kevin and I go there – I love the rice with little white fish. MAN that shit is good. And the ramen! Great, and you get so much for so little money.
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   Kyle
   51 Fri, November 9, 2007 – 7:30 PM
   Don’t be a wet noodle, have a steak instead!

   

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   mike
   9 Mon, November 12, 2007 – 9:47 AM
   I gotta back Steve’s pick on this place–it’s incredible! I don’t know about all this jolly tongue crap, but the place is great!
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   SeventhSwami on October 16th, 2008
 

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