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This blog has been a long time coming floating around in my head in 2015. I have slurped countless bowls of ramen in my lifetime, mostly undocumented, but the memories are still rich even more so being mom to ramen boy who will be entering high school this year. I wish I had taken pictures of all the ramen places we frequented over the years when we lived in Japan and Singapore and our overseas travels because there is a story for each one of them and I can remember many. Running into ramen boy’s classmate eating at Ippudo and chatting afterwords (the boy has a lot of siblings) and one of them who was a toddler at the time hopping on a motorcycle while we were talking unnoticed by us but not a bystander who politely asked if the child was ours. Ramen boy’s expandable belly full of noodles. He would order kaedama (extra noodles) more than once to the amazement of the servers. In fact to this day he still orders a large bowl of noodles with extra noodles.

This blog is not so much a review of ramen restaurants but hopefully more about the experience of sharing a bowl of noodles with friends and family. For me ramen is comfort food. It’s about memories that go way back to times I spent with my grandmother and she would make it for me or when I had it as an afternoon school snack with my middle school best friend Erlinda. The ramen bond I have with my son is something I hope we can share for years to come and in the meantime share with you.

Enjoy! I hope I make you hungry.