Concentrating the taste in the broth to focus on the texture of the noodles rather than ridiculously piling on toppings like it’s a Domino’s pizza and getting back to sub $5 pricing while still having full or build your own topping options available.
by JapanPizzaNumberOne
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Not in the US but id love to try it out. Noodles and the broth is the most important thing to me anyways and forcing chefs to make the best version of ramen just with these two things would be cool
Didn’t know it was a thing. That being said, I appreciate a modest amount of toppings to add additional texture and flavor. Menma, bean sprouts, and chashu or saboro is great. Much more than that would be overwhelming for me.
We call that a kids ramen. It’ll never catch on because Americans are more focused on the toppings, Most people don’t even know what ramen really is..
Looks like an attempt to keep the bowls under 1000円 and still make money.
They can make it (trend) how they want. I’m going to continue to make and eat mine how I like it. Broth, and noodles with some form of meat, green onions, egg, and red bellpeppers. I don’t want just noodles and broth.
Not American, but Canadian. I love this! It’s simple, clean. Elegant, even! I’ve got some really nice clear broth at the moment and I think I’m going to do a no topping bowl for lunch tomorrow
Naked noodles with soup
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These look perfect to me.
I think you’re overestimating how much attention American ramen fans are paying to Japanese TV shows.
Personally I love it. Forcing function for quality of noodles, broth, and tare
Probably not well considering the majority of ramen I see and that get posted here have chashu, egg, mushrooms, nori, bamboo shoots, corn, cilantro, ect all piled up into the same bowl. I think the broth is an after thought a lot of the time.
USA doesn’t really follow ramen trends in Japan. maybe a a few cities if there’s an active ramen seen. my area and others are just lucky to even have ramen places.
Although toppings won’t save a terrible ramen, a really good broth and good noodles without toppings is like a plain cheese pizza. Something feels like it’s missing. At least for me, this does not spark joy.
This looks so sad
なんでやねん
Fantastic. I just want a fantastic broth, noodles, and an egg. Get those slimy fucking beansprouts OUTAHEEAH
I’m sure there are places where ramen like this is such a pure expression of the art that it’s perfect. A high percentage of ramen is that though. Eating a balanced or nutritionally well rounded meal in one bowl is probably more important to most Americans than appreciating ramen in its purest form. Great ramen is great in any form, but most people located outside of Japan aren’t following trends they’re just looking for their best possible meal.
Looks incredible. The broth is the heart and the ramen is the soul, the rest are extras
I already do this when I don’t feel like putting in toppings 😂
So college ramen?
when someone offers to make me ramen, they usually mean a maruchan packet with nothing added. at best they mean cup noodles. soooo….
I can’t imagine why anyone but American ramen otaku would care about what the Japanese trends are.
Honestly as much as I love ramen with all the stuff on it, sometimes it is just to much. Where my “ramen” at home is literally broth and noodles.
When ramen first came out in the ‘70’s we never put toppings on it. You made the broth with the packet and threw in the noodles to cook. Some kids ate the hard noodles after dipping them in the seasoning packet.
It was simple back then.
Nah
I had not heard of this until reading this post. Seems like the enshittification of ramen
I personally haven’t seen this until now. Though, if you told me look at this bowl of soup, I would wonder why you were showing me chicken noodle soup. Or some form of chicken broth.
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