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Portland, ME: Getting My Ramen Fix at Pai Men Miyake

Ever since the charter issue of Lucky Peach hit newsstands, I've been making myself a promise: This is the weekend I'm going to make ramen. Unfortunately, I've been saying that for months now, but not because my noodle soup craving has subsided. Not in the least. It's just that this place, Masa Miyake's noodle shop called Pai Men Miyake, has been feeding me so well that procrastination has become a delicious habit.

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Serious Eats YouTube Playlist: Ramen

We love ramen whether it's made with care in a restaurant or made in three minutes in a styrofoam cup. Here are some ramen-related videos showing a tour of a ramen factory, how to cook ramen, wacky instant ramen commercials, interviews with ramen chefs, and more.

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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Rethinking Ramen

Last week we asked all of you to share your ramen hacks for a challenge we dubbed Rethinking Ramen. The instructions on the packets simply say just add water, but we were interested in what you use to doctor up your noodle soup. Here's a look at some of our most innovative ramen redux.

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Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles

As a half-Japanese kid in the '80s, I grew up eating instant ramen at least once a week, and it still holds a special place in my gut. That said, my tastes have changed and expanded considerably over the years, and sometimes that little flavoring packet just isn't enough. As such, I've spent a lot of time devising ways to upgrade my ramen in cheap, easy ways. Ghetto gourmet, if you will.

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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Ramen?

We've probably all eaten instant ramen before. Late at night, pressed for time, the dry noodles in-a-pouch make the best midnight snack, or dinner on a poor college student's budget. But have you ever eaten real Japanese ramen? Without a single dehydrated vegetable in sight, Japanese ramen is wholly different from instant noodles. No matter which type you prefer, how much do you know about either type of ramen? Take the quiz! »

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Marginally Food-Related Video: Ramen Commercial Sung to Tune of 'Bubble Bobble'

Girls' Generation: a crazy popular South Korean girl group. Bubble Bobble: A classic '80s video game. Instant Ramen: Duh. [via The Awl]...

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Snapshots from the UK: Wagamama's Defunct #28 (Chili Mushroom Ramen)

"Is my ramen some third grader who's no good at dodgeball and gets picked last for the team?" The now defunct Chili Mushroom Ramen. Do you have that one thing, that favorite thing, on that one menu that you always order? You go back to that same restaurant for that same dish, year in and year out. But would you go back if that dish was brutally, surreptitiously stricken from the menu one dark night when no one is around to save it? This is the story of how I was separated, cruelly, from my Chili Mushroom Ramen: #28 at Wagamama. Wagamama is a ubiquitous British noodle house chain, at which customers seat themselves up and down clean communal tables...

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Wall Street CEOs, Get Familiar with Ramen

Photograph from crazytales562 on Flickr The Official Ramen Homepage, which offers 451 recipes to date for preparing instant noodles, has a new demographic: "I’d like to welcome a new audience to my site, Wall Street CEOs. Even if ramen costs a dollar per pack in Manhattan, they will be able to buy a packet of ramen every minute of every day in 2009...." A $1 package of ramen for every minute of the year would come out to $525,600—and that's not factoring in the cost of hypertension meds....

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In Videos: Personalized, Customized Cup of Instant Ramen Noodles

After we blogged about the personal-size ramen vending machine, Serious Eats community member lammoreaux pointed us to a video showing a Japanese operation that allows you to personalize your own ramen cup and then pack it with the noodle-and-ingredient combo of your choice—all shrink-wrapped just as you'd find it in stores. The video, after the jump....

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Bay Area Eats: Kahoo Ramen and the Quest for the Magic Egg

"In the same way an omelet is considered the Western chef’s yardstick, I believe shio ramen is the true measure of a ramen chef’s skills." Shio Ramen. One’s love for ramen is a highly subjective affair. So I feel it necessary for me to explain why I would go against popular opinion and rank Kahoo Ramen in San Jose, California, above what many would consider its “betters”: Ippudo in New York City, Asa in Los Angeles, and the likes of Ramen Halu in the Bay Area. The truth is, I love ramen. Love it. It’s the closest thing I have to a religion, and it wasn’t until I moved too far away (18 hours by plane) from my family’s favorite...

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