Food, Food, and More Food Thread

Tu_triky wrote:a non-Japanese person showing up at their door with a cardboard sign written in hiragana.... :hehe:

Lemme know how it turns out. :mrgreen: :rofl:

bmwracer wrote:
Lemme know how it turns out. :mrgreen: :rofl:

:hehe: Yeah. I am anticipating a warm reception. I will be treated like a liberator...

Tu_triky wrote:Ramen California part III

Lobster Ravioli with mushroom sauce
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This looks great. Do desu ka?

Eve wrote:1000 pages of good eats! :victory:

I just noticed the page number. :beaten:

Food makes the world go round and your belly! :nut:

Takoyama wrote:Food makes the world go round and your belly! :nut:

LOL.

That's where the exercise comes in. :sweat:

Takoyama wrote:

This looks great. Do desu ka?

It was pretty tasty. The mushroom sauce was really light (it didn't have any cream in it) so it didn't take away from the taste of the lobster-filled ravioli.

^ Been reading some of the reviews on Ramen California... Like any reviews from the general public, you have to take 'em with a grain of salt... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:^ Been reading some of the reviews on Ramen California... Like any reviews from the general public, you have to take 'em with a grain of salt... :sweat:

You just have to try it. It's pretty avant-garde because it strays from the traditional offerings of a typical ramen shop but I think the food is nonetheless good. I noticed on their daily specials menu they have started offering a tonkotsu ramen which is what is traditionally offered at most shops.

As I might have stated before, when you have a hankering for noodles and want a lighter, less salty option their chicken broth based offerings are much lighter but still flavorful.

While we all have our own tastes, given the prices they offer it's not an expensive trial to sit down and get your slurp on there. :)

EDIT: I've taken two people there and they both enjoyed it and they aren't Japanese food fanatics like us.

Tu_triky wrote:You just have to try it. It's pretty avant-garde because it strays from the traditional offerings of a typical ramen shop but I think the food is nonetheless good. I noticed on their daily specials menu they have started offering a tonkotsu ramen which is what is traditionally offered at most shops.

As I might have stated before, when you have a hankering for noodles and want a lighter, less salty option their chicken broth based offerings are much lighter but still flavorful.

While we all have our own tastes, given the prices they offer it's not an expensive trial to sit down and get your slurp on there. :)

Yup. :)

EDIT: I've taken two people there and they both enjoyed it and they aren't Japanese food fanatics like us.

Good to know. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
Good to know. :victory:

There are still a number of styles that I haven't tried because they were recently added to their menu. Their Niboshi ramen which has a broth made from both chicken and fish stock sounds interesting. I know a lot of shops in Japan have these types of more complex broth using more than one ingredient, such as pork bones, to create the soup. Let's not forget the chef is a Japanese native with extensive experience in Japan before coming to set up shop here in L.A.

The cool thing is they offer their ramen in different sizes...the first time I went there with a friend...we ordered four mini bowls of four different ramens just to try a bunch of different flavors at once. Going alone or with a friend you could easily order two mini bowls to get "your feet wet" so to speak.

Tu_triky wrote:The cool thing is they offer their ramen in different sizes...the first time I went there with a friend...we ordered four mini bowls of four different ramens just to try a bunch of different flavors at once. Going alone or with a friend you could easily order two mini bowls to get "your feet wet" so to speak.

Tapas-style ramen as it were. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Tapas-style ramen as it were. :mrgreen:

Haha. Exactly. :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:

There are still a number of styles that I haven't tried because they were recently added to their menu. Their Niboshi ramen which has a broth made from both chicken and fish stock sounds interesting. I know a lot of shops in Japan have these types of more complex broth using more than one ingredient, such as pork bones, to create the soup. Let's not forget the chef is a Japanese native with extensive experience in Japan before coming to set up shop here in L.A.

The cool thing is they offer their ramen in different sizes...the first time I went there with a friend...we ordered four mini bowls of four different ramens just to try a bunch of different flavors at once. Going alone or with a friend you could easily order two mini bowls to get "your feet wet" so to speak.

I'm so glad that you mentioned that they offer different sizes! Based on the pics I was thinking that their ramen servings were pretty small! All the pics you posted look delicious. Just a couple weekends ago, I went to a ramen shop on Carson and Pennsylvania in Torrance with friends. I had mabodofu ramen and it was OK. Now I want to go to Ramen California!

Sengo wrote:

I'm so glad that you mentioned that they offer different sizes! Based on the pics I was thinking that their ramen servings were pretty small! All the pics you posted look delicious. Just a couple weekends ago, I went to a ramen shop on Carson and Pennsylvania in Torrance with friends. I had mabodofu ramen and it was OK. Now I want to go to Ramen California!

I encourage you to go. :) They have so many different flavors of ramen and so many small tapas dishes to boot there is bound to be something you'd like. Their housemade Rosemary Kasha Bread which comes with any order is worth the visit alone.

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Here's a picture (from last year) of the four mini bowls of ramen that I shared with a friend that I had lunch with at Ramen California.

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Sengo wrote:Just a couple weekends ago, I went to a ramen shop on Carson and Pennsylvania in Torrance with friends.

Carson and Pennsylvania?

I'm trying to picture that intersection.....

bmwracer wrote:
Carson and Pennsylvania?

I'm trying to picture that intersection.....

I know... it's in the same strip mall as the okonomiyaki shop but facing south. Pretty non-descript place but there were mostly, if not all, Asian people there.

My friend went to try the okonomiyaki place a few days later and said it was so-so.

^ Hey, Carson doesn't intersect Pennsylvania... :headscratch: :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:^ Hey, Carson doesn't intersect Pennsylvania... :headscratch: :sweat:

The map I checked showed that Pennsylvania runs north and south like Crenshaw. Isn't the name of the okonomiyaki restaurant called Gaja?

Here's the link to the Yelp page for Gaja with a map:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/gaja-japanese-restaurant-lomita

Tu_triky wrote:

I encourage you to go. :) They have so many different flavors of ramen and so many small tapas dishes to boot there is bound to be something you'd like. Their housemade Rosemary Kasha Bread which comes with any order is worth the visit alone.

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Here's a picture (from last year) of the four mini bowls of ramen that I shared with a friend that I had lunch with at Ramen California.

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Those mini bowls look pretty big! The rosemary kasha bread looks so tasty! :jumpie:

Sengo wrote:The map I checked showed that Pennsylvania runs north and south like Crenshaw.

And Pennsylvania dead ends at Sepulveda... South of Carson. :sweat:

Thanks for the link! :victory: