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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 07:52:03 JST Adrianna Tan

   Watching a review of chefs doing a ‘blind’ tasting of different instant ramens, and someone says ‘this tastes healthy in a not so good way’ I knew right away it was the Trader Joe’s one (most of their ‘east Asian’ stuff is like ‘let’s make something in the shape of the thing and take out all the flavor!’ Except the gimbap, which is pretty decent)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 07:54:11 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Ahahaha

     https://youtu.be/V6kMs673lnM?si=M4sdlXTn1YXyCr9_

     Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ repeated this.
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 07:56:03 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Lyle Solla-Yates

     @Lyle like their off brand versions of junk food.. too much sodium to be healthy, too tasteless to compete with the actual thing

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     Lyle Solla-Yates (lyle@cville.online)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 07:56:04 JST Lyle Solla-Yates

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     @skinnylatte mm, you taste the absence of sodium

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:03:13 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Dan Ports

     @dan oh lord. Yeah. So bad

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:03:14 JST Dan Ports

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     @skinnylatte and slap a vaguely racist name like "Trader Ming's" on it for good measure!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:13:36 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I know people have a classist thing about instant ramen, but there’s a whole world of instant ramen ranging from meh to ‘probably better than a fancy ramen in your small city’

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     Chris Petrilli (petrillic@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:16:07 JST Chris Petrilli

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     @skinnylatte I feel like this is the same people who think "expensive Chinese food" is an oxymoron. Or freak out at a taco that costs more than $1. If all you've had is cup-o-noodles, your judgement is off.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:17:37 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chris Petrilli

     @petrillic sigh, I miss (good) expensive Chinese food

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:21:31 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Douglas

     @douglasvb if you’re ever in San Jose, I’m a fan of Ramen Nagi

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     Douglas (douglasvb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:21:32 JST Douglas

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     @skinnylatte hmm this is making me hungry for ramen...

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:24:33 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • StevenSavage (he/him)

     @StevenSavage @douglasvb I like the green ramen. It’s very unique. Their vegan ramens are also astonishingly good

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     StevenSavage (he/him) (stevensavage@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:24:34 JST StevenSavage (he/him)

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     • Douglas

     @skinnylatte @douglasvb oh thanks for that!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:34:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • icastico

     @icastico it’s a thing now that many well known ramen joints in japan make their own instant ramen. The noodles and soup are functionally similar.

     The noodles are straighter and better quality and the soup is a dehydrated version of the thing they serve.

     This is one (Ichiran Hakata instant ramen), you can get it from many places

     https://japanese-products.blog/2019/08/22/ichiran-instant-hakata-tonkotsu-ramen/

     You can even get a tasting box of diff ramens from Japan like that

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     icastico (icastico@c.im)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:34:56 JST icastico

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     @skinnylatte

     Can you recommend a “probably better than a fancy ramen in your small city” ?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 08:35:46 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • icastico

     @icastico and this instant Lanzhou ramen is better than most places that do Chinese beef noodles in SF

     https://www.sayweee.com/en/product/Galanlang-Lan-Zhou-Beef-Noodles-2-Servings/16157?referral_id=4972487&lang=en&utm_source=copyLink

     The soup is the same as what they have in Lanzhou, boiled down into a concentrate you just add water to it. The noodles are springy.