Jonbu the baker

Just before going to sleep, I decided to have a bowl of ramen. Company held a wine and cheese so I was pretty full and skipped dinner. Now that I’m too full to sleep I decided to blog about the ramen I had.

This is no instant ramen. This is real. But I had to improvise some parts. Most of these were left over ingredients from previous, ramen.

MEN

No ramen noodles. Just used thin-strand regular chinese noodles.

HANJUKU TAMAGO

The secret to hanjuku is 8-3. Put the eggs in cold water, cook over high heat for 8 minutes. The water will boil. Remove from heat and cover. Wait for 3 minutes, then stop the cooking process by rinsing them in cold water. I took the shell off and marinated them in soy sauce. Adds an interesting effect to the yolk.

SUUPU

Save-on sells pork back bones and neck bones. But they look disgusting and i don’t want to deal with them. For the soup this time I put in a whole chicken, some onions, and some ribs. I took the chicken out after an hour because I was planning on eating it. Usually you leave it in for 6 hours until it’s drained of its taste. After another hour I took out the ribs, ripped off the meat and threw the bones back in. It’s more of an afterthought. The rib meat went on to the grill with some bbq sauce and was quite good. This is how you make tender ribs anyway - you boil them first ( I heard this on Letterman). Added some soysauce in the bowl for shoyu ramen.

NORI + NEGI

Piece of sushi nori and some chopped green onion went in the bowl.

CHAASHU

Here’s the part that gets controversial. Usually in this situation I would slice a piece pork and put it in soy sauce / sugar and just pan fry it to create instant chaashu. I couldn’t find any pork in my fridge today. So for the first time, I sliced in a piece of SPAM. LIGHT. It’s fat, salty, and has a hint of spice in it, and it works! Pour hot broth over it and the fat melts. The piece of meat is tender like tofu and melts in your mouth. (Some will say it’s actually made of soy)

Although I think most ppl reading this would never consider eating spam. You’ll never know.

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All that work. Time to sleep.