Time for ramen
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I had no idea there are this many ramen restaurants nearby. These are all pretty much within 15 or 20 minutes of my house...
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240701/business/chicago-ramen-empire-expanding-across-the-suburbs/
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Lucky you! Where we live now has much better restaurant options than where we lived before moving here last year. But for whatever reason there’s no really good Japanese restaurant. There are a couple of just tolerable ones, and then a few really good Korean ones, but no Japanese.
BTW, if you have the change (and assuming you like ramen) try Akahoshi Ramen https://www.akahoshiramen.com/
I know the owner, he was a Japanese language student when I was a TA in grad school.
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IMO it’s not whether the owner and staff are Japanese, but how there trained and how authentically they do their menus, ingredients etc.
And re authenticity? It doesn’t even have to be authentic to be good.
But the Japanese restaurants here in town are just not great. Tolerable, but not great. It’s disappointing. Esp. for Mr SK.
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Have you tried the Buldak Spicy Korean noodles? I just heard about them but apparently they are very popular. Like Walmart and Target popular.
And they can be very, very spicy!
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Not sure if this applies to any particular variety of Buldak instant noodle, but many instant noodles put the hot/spicy seasoning in a separate packet, so you can reduce the hot/spiciness just but reducing the amount of the hot/spicy seasoning you put into your instant noodle.
