Bad electric bill?

$800 squatted truck payment killing ya?



Ramen for a month

Not bad, I took it hiking often

10cent a pack

Chop up some Bar S weiners in to for a bit of kick!

Eat a lot of it out in the field back in the day.
A little water, a little Tabasco sauce, and a Coleman one burner propane stove.
Nice break from the MRE’s.

My son loves it with some added meat


He cooks it himself, so win-win

We always make some when we make stir fry.

Mo Betta’

The chicken in the orange pack with a little tapatio hot sauce is pretty good. Pretty good if you can’t make it to CiCis.

Or add some Toni’s

Use to eat 2 packs at a time...Cut up some Char Siu pork, add hot oil. Good stuff!

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Hot lunch on a cold day. Cook a scrambled egg in it while it bubbles. Or, I’ll run a hard cooked egg through an egg slicer and add it on top with some Frank’s.

They taste good but terrible for you. You want something terrible, get the Pho noodles. Goodness sakes, they are nasty.

Lardass

That has become a known fact...🤦‍♀️😢


But, SandBully likes a fuller figured gal....So, there is that, I guess.


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Stoner food

Unless you add green onions and some meat then its legit

No Sir....Microwave pizza or chicken nuggets. Stoned, it takes too long for water to boil.

Lol

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or eat it dry

Mmm, green onions.

The egg roll ain’t the same without GO.

I was on a train from San Diego to OC a year ago. Some homeless guy sat across from me. He digs two ramen noodle packs out of his backpack, and proceeds to eat them uncooked. I guess its not an uncommon way to munch them. The bum then got on his phone. His conversation was hysterical, didn’t know where he was or what stop he was at even though the stops popup on a screen.

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I like Sardines and Crackers better.

Got a neighbor tall 70s Chinese dude. He says all you need is soy sauce, garlic, ginger and green onions and the food will be good. I can't argue with him much on that

Nope, no argument here.

Lol

Staple at our place. I don't even look at the grocery bill anymore. It's horrifying what two boys can do to a refrigerator full of food. They never stop eating. Never.

Chicken flavored Ramen packge
1 cup water
1 boullion cube
1 tbsp. minced garlic
1/2 onion, diced
2 celery stalks, cubed
2 carrots, penny-sliced
1 tuna-can sized Walmart chicken.

Simmer for 30 minutes- - - -chow down!

So the next question is what's the best practices here. Break the noodles up a bit before they hit the pot or go full length and slurp those mo fos so's they slap against your cheek on the way in

Cup of noodles….Korean bbq flavor

Fancy. Sounds good

Ya breaks them. We ain’t cave men!

Meijer section was bare shelves Sat night.

I think they’re better in the styrofoam cups, so no breaking here.

Full length...gotta have bowl juice flying all over your face, shirt, and coffee table while eating it.

Also, makes my dog think it’s normal to sling his food everywhere.

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I like to slurp real loud like they do down in Chinatown. I make it more western tho by yelling out fuqk ya! once in a while.

I see where you are going with this and can relate....I trust you don't toss the dry noodles in until the very end cause 30 minutes would turn them to paste. Sorry but my Japanese mother was making faces from heaven.

I pound on the bag to break 'em up. "Scramble" in 2 or 3 eggs while it's a cookin'. When it's done I crunch up a bunch of saltines to make some "mush" - flashback to eatin' with my grampa with his dentures removed.

Yeah, 30 seems about 25 too long to me.

I've tried it both ways, and a slow simmer to tenderize the veggies doesn't really hurt the texture of the noodles. Just don't let a rolling boil get going. A flame war or two on the fire is just about the right amount of cooking time!

I can honesty say, never ate it in 42 years walking the earth.

Not that I’m a uppity mofo. I’ll eat Vienna’s and spam.

I’ll fug up the microwave Mac n cheese cups though.

Try adding a foil packet of tuna or acan if you are cheap, or a can of chicken if you are feeling extravagant..
$1.10-$2.25 fora goodwarm me up meal...
Side benefit.
Drop the flavor packet in a mug of hot water to get your core temperature up..
A lot like dinking chicken broth to warm the body up...

Putting a table spoon of minced garlic?!
You sleeping alone after that!!

Clyde

I ate enough of them in College. Never wanna see another cup of Ramon Noodles.

Do like the Microwave MAC & Cheese cups Big Dave Mentioned, though. The Velveeta Brand one’s are the best.

The Microwave Cups of Idahoan Mashed Potatoes are damned good too !

https://snackathonfoods.com/products/idahoan-microwavable-mashed-potatos?variant=32940818825301&currency=USD&msclkid=596ebc9dd62c136cd1b3dd7fc2b2d6ac&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Product%20Search&utm_term=4587162514020714&utm_content=Ad%20group%20%231

When I was in DC, a homeless-looking guy came into the deli I frequented and bought a can of Campbell's condensed cream of mushroom soup, asked the clerk to open it, took a plastic spoon, and ate it.

I can eat that stuff like it's my job! ( a saying I picked up from a very famous GWOT sniper)

Ramen noodles without that damn flavor pack. Ramen noodles and a jar of chicken or beef bullion fed me many a time. A little chopped onion all the better.

Always have some in the cupboard. Sometimes leave the flavor packet out and add some good chicken bullion

Hammer fist em on the counter.
Not enough to burst the packet, but hard enough multiple times to break em up.
3 packs
Hot azz water to begin with.
Microzap 2 mins
Stir .
Zap one more min.
Drain water along side of sink.

Look in fridge.
Merican cheese.
Shredded cheddar
Chopped up what ever lunch meat.
Salsa or hot sauce.
Can of beefaroni.
Vienna,s
Can of mixed vegetables
Bag of microwaved rice

Imagination is the limit with ramen.


Ate alot of ramen on this rock in the infantry.
Ate alot of buckethead ramen x 3 tours in korea also.

Probably got 2 dozen packs up in the kitchen.
Might eat it once or twice a month or once in a couple of months.


It's kinda a wild hair up my azz spur of the moment event outta the blue thing.

Hey....
I want some ramen for schitts and giggles..

Once when I was delivering Dr Pepper to a little grocery store in the rough part of town a homeless guy came in asking the owner for dry cat food, owner said he had dry dog food but no cat food. Homeless guy said no, he wants cat cause it has more protein.

Both Ramen and Cup O Soup around here.

A little Slap Ya Momma gives it a bit of kick as well.

I still wanna know about the little chink that peels the tiny shrimps in the cup of soups, must have a micro set of dick skinners on his hands!

Never discovered those until I was about 35. A cutting board with some leftover meat, onions, mushrooms, celery, carrots, etc with 2 minutes and 40 seconds in the microwave, and I had a pretty good lunch.

There's enough salt in that stuff to de-ice roads in the arctic regions.

Couple packages of one of the spicy varieties, break the noodles up good, add a tablespoon of butter or margarine, a tablespoon or two of dried onion bits, small can of mushrooms along with juice, dash or two creole seasoning, a little garlic and curry powder and both packs of the seasoning that comes with noodles. Add enough water to cover. Microwave for around 3 +/- minutes.

Food section...sticky....come on u guys...

We never eat that shįt.

Subarctic here, but send it at these Temps.

Crush a packet and dump noodles into a pot. Add seasoning packet contents and some red pepper flakes or Tony's. Cover with water and heat on stove until tender. Good eats.

Santa Ramen. San Mateo, CA.

Not the best I’ve had, but good enough.

Instant gout due to sodium for me.

Leave the "packet" out, and you'll be fine. Its nothing but salt.

I put more salt on my poptarts than what’s in them flavor packets.

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Microwave cooker from amazon.
Drop in noodles and seasoning and fill to water line.
Microwave like they say.
Stir in 2-3 eggs and microwave again.
Much better and more to it.
Yes on green onions to.
Nobody else adds eggs? Since the early 70s.......

Up above.

Saw that. Thanks.
I meant cooked with it. 2-3. Not as a garnish. Seldom fix it without eggs.

Oh, you are referring to eggs over, on the side?

Never done that.

We keep packaged ramen type noodles around for emergency quickie meals (and of course for occasional drunken chef purposes), but those square plastic packets of fried then dehydrated garbage noodles with the 'flavor' pack are about as close to real ramen as a Filet-O-Fish is to a fresh broiled swordfish steak.

Hey JumboShrimp, anata wa hafu desu-ka? Oh, well. Now you've done it. Conrad's going to be hating on you now all ricky-ticky like...

And yes, I tossed up a couple of pics of hot Vietnamese and Korean noodle dishes as well. Sue me.

This thread is like sitting in the airport for an hour. Takes all kinds.

Ain’t lived till you’ve combined a package of beef ramen with a can of Boy R D raviolis. Yessir. Try it slum. Or, those fancy pants ravs from Aldi’s.

Also like to have a can of spam handy. A million and 1 uses.

I’ve honestly NEVER seen someone buy ramen noodles with an EBT card.

More along the lines of steak, bacon, and 5 packages of ground meat.

Appears that ramen is only for homeless folks, and those who work for a living....

And just like that...

Back when I was in college, I made ground venison with some hot sauce to mix into ramen. I didn't die.

for lunch add a cup of canned deer for each bowl of ramen. yum.

camping. add a couple ounces of dried burger to boiling water to reconstitute and then add ramen. makes a good quick lunch over a fuel tab on a cold day.

I hope renegade doesn’t read this.

I had ramen with venison sausage yesterday for lunch.

It didn't suck

Cup-O-Noodles should be on every backpackers' menu. The hot salty broth is a welcome relief when you are thirsty.

I read the package closely, if it is made in China I will not buy or eat it!!!!!

Just when I start to think we have something’s in common, you go all in with some 3rd world cooking recipes that would make a rat shît himself.

Lol

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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty

LMFAO

Knorr instant pasta is pretty good stuff. One of my quickie meals is a pack of Knorr noodles, some broccoli, a can of tuna, and a can of mushroom soup.

Boil the noodles and the broccoli, chop up the broccoli, then put the noodles and broccoli in an oven proof dish, stir in the can of tuna and the mushroom soup,...bake it for a while.

About $4.50 for more than you can eat at one setting.

This stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Knorr-Pasta-...&hvtargid=pla-973546513811&psc=1

Strangely enough... make sure to look up Ramen noodles on Youtube... the Asian people do a lot of different things with them and make some really good dishes... Most not even using the spice packets...

Prisoners are the ones who can make some sjit with Ramen noodles.

Fuugers make casseroles with them, cheetos and some other stuff.

Food section...sticky...yum...

Real ramen is like in Kamo Gari's pictures, it's got very little in common with the instant packages we have in the U.S. A lot of Japanese noodle shops make their noodles in house every day. A bowl of spicy ramen with pork on top with a half dozen gyoza and a beer is a pretty heavenly meal.

I'm in Japan right now but unfortunately because of Covid rules I'm restricted to the hotel. There are a half dozen noodle shops within a couple blocks of me but I can't go to them. Kamo Gari's pictures have my mouth watering.

Ippudo is a big ramen chain in Japan and they're pretty good. It looks like they've opened a couple of restaurants in the U.S.


https://ippudo-us.com/menu/

Haven’t been there in years, I guess they’re on El Camino now? And yes, there was a reason for the long line outside back in the day….

have a few 24 packs of Cup o' noodles as my emergency food supply.

My son will break into them when he is hungry and doesn't want to put any effort into eating them. He buys a bag of the pre cooked pulled chicken and uses with whatever spice he grabs off the shelf.

The local sewage treatment plant serving about 300,000 people, incoming screen: Hundreds of used condoms, great gobs of “flushable wipes”, the occasional dead critter, and daily rafts of empty top ramen noodle packages floating high and mostly dry on top.

They have no idea who’s flushing them, maybe a Chinese restaurant somewhere?

Hahahaha!
Duck and weave

Check out my response to Valsdad in the SPAM thread and it will make more sense.

Ever check the sodium content in that stuff. One serving is your sodium limit for the day.

Ramen was my lunch, along with a yogurt, at work for years. I didn't have time to actually take a lunch break, so it worked well and was cheap. Folks were giving me cook books for it, and I got several cases from them when I retired 2 years ago. They're still sitting on the shelf and I won't eat it again as long as I live.

YouTube up some Ramen Bombs for backpacking. Oh so good. Ramen, Idaho instant taters and spam.

I spice it up by adding the juice from a can of Vienna Sausages. Otherwise, I will put a can of chicken chunks or tuna in it.

kwg

After going through this thread, I know what I am having for lunch every day.. Some of you guys have made it sound better than it usually is!
I am not sure I could eat noodles with an Octopus tentacle in it though.

Hey CW. Thanks for the response. Are you under the newer 4 or 7 day mandatory Q restriction on this trip post arrival? My wife hasn't been willing to deal with the whole Q requirement nonsense so hasn't been to get back to see her family in Tokyo for over two years. Are you at Narita or Haneda, or in a different part of the country?

As far as getting ramen or any other, quality sit down grub, might I suggest trying to get your hotel staff/concierge to order something local for you to be delivered to your cell, I man room? Many, if not most little mom and pop type neighborhood places around metro Tokyo will deliver daily. As you probably know, many of those guys you see zooming around town in white aprons driving the 2 and 3 wheeled motorized scooters/mopeds are delivering food, including steaming hot bowls of ramen. My guess is they'll deliver food to your hotel no problem--though with the COVID silliness not sure. The only thing is that the places that deliver ramen/udon type stuff require that you leave the clean bowls for them when you're done so they can pick them up after. These old school type places will prepare and send you hot food out using real dishes and bowls, not plastic recyclable type stuff that goes in the trash. Of course, getting bento boxes delivered could maybe hold you over until you're 'cleared' and can head out and eat as you please.

Safe travels and eat up. And yes, Ippudo is pretty damned good. Hitting a ramen joint at 2am-4am after a night of fun and before the first train in the morning is a thing, and has been since I was introduced to the pastime in the 80s. Loading up on good hot food like ramen seems to help keep the Japanese hangover monster at bay when he shows up with the sunrise...

Why not on the tentacle? It's kind of a cool feeling when it grabs onto your liver and starts squeezing some.

Yes, mom and pop ramen noodle houses are great places to eat in Japan. I also like it served with the pork slices.

If you fly out of Narita there’s a noodle shop on the same street the big temple is on, right hand side. All the flight crews eat there and it’s full of airlines give aways.

there is always a sealed plastic container full of it at my camp. it is awesome with just a little water to get it softened up. made many a meal on it when i did not have anything else.

Craving Tonkotsu now.

Osaka, but I fly into Narita often too.

As flight crew we've got crew exemptions to the standard procedures in most places. In Japan we're restricted to the hotel the whole time we're there. We don't have to stay in the room but we can't leave our designated hotel. That's actually a lot better than most other places in Asia where we're confined to a room lockdown, no stepping outside the room from arrival to departure. Without special exemptions for aircrew air commerce would basically grind to a halt so the exemptions to normal quarantine rules are necessary if they want to keep the planes moving. You're right that most of the noodle houses would deliver, and Uber eats has gotten pretty big in Japan also. A quick check of it in Osaka shows plenty of Ramen offerings. I like going into the noodle houses themselves though, they have kind of a Waffle House feel to them (I mean that in a good way). I'm back in the U.S. now and just ate in the hotel restaurants when I was there, they were pretty good in their own right.



Yup, I know that one well, eaten there many times. They make a spicy Ramen that's a bit hotter than the normal version because of so many Americans passing through. It's really good and that's what I always get there. Unfortunately it's coming up on two years since I've been able to visit them. It's this place in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPdpHch0FUo

This discussion reminds me of that Bare Naked Ladies tune - "If I had a million dollars":

If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft dinner Top Ramen
But we would eat Kraft dinner Top Ramen
Of course we would we'd just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups Soy Sauces with it
Thats right all the fanciest Dijon ketchups Octopus tentacles mmm mmm

Same same.
Maybe Beaver just needs some of the shrimp flavor, and a couple of them Dungmess crabs to mix in. Sea ducks taste like azzz; pack o’ chicken ramen might help that too.

Beavs likes that Geoduck clam that looks like a cock. 😂

Dats racist, you POS

😝🦫

DAHHH HAHHHAHA!
Read and seen some of that Jap anime porn on same!

West Coast seafoods, with the exception of Alaskan salmon and halibut, and a few other things, squarely SUKS.

GOOEYducks, they call em. Phoenetically.
Silly bastards.

Phufff…

“Giant Surf Clam”….

Yeeeaaah

More than a few up in there, I’m sure

Kick em out wide, byyyotchhh

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“Isssss that yer….. CLIT?

Orrr am I dealing with a Giant Surf Clam?…

Why is it spitting at me??!!”

😃😃😩🤮

Fuggin Gross, bud!

Put that west coast Yuck Flower away!

Twat.

I used to eat Ramen Pride noodles and Boil-In-Bags when I was single. Ramen was 6/$1 and the Boil-In-Bags of mystery meat were 3/$1. I could eat dinner for 50 cents! I haven't had that stuff in years.

Yup, I know that one well, eaten there many times. They make a spicy Ramen that's a bit hotter than the normal version because of so many Americans passing through. It's really good and that's what I always get there. Unfortunately it's coming up on two years since I've been able to visit them. It's this place in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPdpHch0FUo
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That’s the place all right, in fact we ate at that exact table and I had the spicy ramen you were talking about. My daughter is no longer teaching over there so probably won’t make it back any time soon.

Went to the Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka one year, that was a hoot for sure.

Orale pues, muchacho. Dude knows.

Understood. Completely. There's something special about watching folks, many with a lifetime worth of experience at perfecting particular dishes putting together a special meal right in front of you. Even with things as simple as ramen joints. Obviously, you get it. A big part of the enjoyment of eating out is being there. The smells, the sounds, the anticipation...The beer buzz kicking in and checking out the bombshell that just got seated over there and...never mind. Cheers, sir.

P.S. So Mr. Harry, you find mirugai/giant clam disgusting, apparently semi-worship at the altar of Spam--or at least find it a versatile and valuable meat product-- yet supervise a restaurant group as cook/chef? You mentioned that aside from salmon and halibut and a few others things, Pacific ocean seafood sucks? I'm confused.

Hilarious pair of Ozzies on a stag hunt in Hokkaido a few years back. Drunken buggers but serious about the hunt and good people.

That don't look too ramen-ish to me.

Kamo-

I always find your write ups and pictorials enjoyable. This time I’m a little pissed off as all that food looks amazing, and I’m sitting here not able to taste a dammed thing. When my taste buds reappear- ramen is high on the long list of things I’m looking forward to tasting.

Try to keep up, Fats. Part of the thread morphed into the actually being there 'experience' as part of enjoying tasty things, those even as pedestrian as a bowl of hot noodles. The concept kind of transcends the whole 'It's 3AM? Oh Snap, I'm Hammered Proper Boys, Let's Do a Cup Noodle!' thing. Make sense?

^Asian Noodle expert^

lol!

Thanks, Robert. Proper, practically made-to-order ramen is out of this world. As is so often the case, this thread has morphed. INSTANT 'ramen' noodles has zero to do with freshly made noodles prepared to perfection by someone who knows what good food means. As is so often the case, not everything is black and white.

Minani kanpai.

Ate a ton of them, when I was stationed in Taiwan 71/72. 1 1/2 cents per package. Drop a raw egg on top after it is cooked, stir, put a lid on top and wait a minute. Amazing eats for the price.

Leighton never disappoints !

We love Asian noodle soups & use brown rice noodles.

Here, this should help;

Hey, they sound just like me !

No Ramen, No Life.

More noodle soups !!



















My name is Paul & I am an addict !

Paul goin all bomb diggity again.

I’ll take 2x of each, please.

Is that what the photos of the grilled meat are?

That's not very nice.

LOL, Montana Fats.

Welcome to the party Pal!

I thought Japs were supposed to be nicer than that?

tent/hiking/ camping

hunting

camper food

broken if in pkgs, whole in styrofoam cups.

Preferably with some meat added, usually wieners. Or a side of jerky and cheese.

Most inscrutable.

I think you should get all likkered up & go all kamikaze on Leighton's arse, tonight.



I've got popcorn & bourbon.

I got the spicy edamame and Sapporo.

chicharrones and modelos ready.

Sake and sukiyaki here….

Just about "drinks" o'clock in Montana !

TTT

Hahaha!

Dammit...I am trying to cut back some!

I think someone got into the extra sassy soy sauce last night.

La Choy probably.

The GOOD stuff....