Korean Ramen

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A long time ago we did a video about a Korean Ramen Taste Test. In that video, though, we didn’t include Shin Ramen, which is hands down Korea’s most popular ramen. In our opinion, it would clearly blow the other ramens out of the water. Anyhow, enough excuses: now we’re doing an entire video dedicated to how we make Shin Ramen. Huzzah!

Before we start, though, I think it’s worth mentioning that there are many ways to spell ramen in Korean. It’s either “ramyun” or “ramyeon,” so to avoid confusion we’re sticking with the canonical “ramen.” So there!

Now, we don’t like to prepare ramen straight up. We like our ramen to be a little more…gourmet. Yes, it does sound ridiculous to make 50 cent ramen gourmet, but it’s possible! Our recipe calls for a slice of cheese, one beaten egg, some bok choy, and some odeng. We like our odeng from Busan, specifically from Nampodong market (which we didn’t make a video for out of our many Busan videos, unfortunately) which supposedly has the best odeng in the entire world. When Simon came back from Busan the first time, he brought a monster bag of it, and we’ve kept it in the freezer since then. It actually holds quite well in the freezer.

Also, in the video you see Martina using an iPod app to help with the ramen. We highly recommend the Korean Ramen Timer app. It’s fantastic. It lists lots of different varieties of ramen to choose from. Choose the brand and the size, and it will tell you exactly how long your water should be in there for the perfect serving of ramen. Isn’t that awesome? And it’s free! Better than that, it’s cute!

So, that’s that for our favorite way to make Korean ramen. If you’ve got a recipe you like, please share! We’re willing to try new things out. Another thing: we opened up another YouTube channel for bonus footage. We oftentimes have silly stuff that we can’t put into our regular videos, so we made an extra channel for that now. Huzzah! Subscribe to that channel by clicking on this button here. Also, thanks to JB and Annie from [ë‹‰ì‘¤] Enjoy Your Happy Life~* for subbing our videos. Sweet!

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http://twitter.com/mcjwserenity Matt Clayton

You guys should do more blogs about Korean food. There’s an Asian store not too far from my house (‘Li Ming’s Global Market’), and I was surprised to find they stock more Korean food than I expected. I tried some of the Nong Shim products like the potato-flavored rice snacks and the delicious cookies (I forgot the name). I even saw the exact brand of ramen you guys used in the video. (It’s a little too spicy for me, but it has a really good flavor.)

But I saw some drink that I’m very reluctant to try, and it’s made in Korea (so you guys probably see this at Home Plus or the convenience stores). It’s a drink made from aloe vera leaf, and I’m wondering if you guys tried it yet. If you have, is it any good?
http://profiles.google.com/ashleytatton Ashley Tatton

I love love love your cooking videos! If you guys find some time you should make more of them please. :) I know you’ve got a busy filming schedule. I’ve re watched these multiple times and have made this ramen a few times now! Trying to find Duk bok ki (I hope I spelled that right) in a small town on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada is going to be a little more difficult.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UDMD47WBG456SRSE64ONXVVIAY Lizzy Unreal

Hello Simon and Martina,

I was making ramen for breakfast this morning and though I would share a picture of one of the ways it is made in our house. I know it may sound weird that we are having ramen for breakfast but it was very common in my home growing up to eat something hot and spicy when your sick. This was usually either kimchi soup and rice, rice mixed with sweet hot pepper paste and kimchi or some sort of spicy noodles. The spices always seemed to help with clearing sinus up and the carbs from the rice and noodles to help fight the cold or bug you picked up.

Todays meal was pretty simple to make, I took a small piece chopped meat that had been seasoned and frozened a few weeks ago cut it up and put it into a pot with with the ramen base (hot and spicy) added a little bit of chopped kimch and a good pinch of the korean powdered beef bouillon mix. Brought it to a boil until the meat was cooked then added the noodles. The ramen was served over warmed up left over rice. One pack of ramen and the left over rice was enough to feed two people at this size serving (see picture). It very good and very simple to make pretty much a one pot meal, especially when your feeling a bit under the weather and want something easy and fast to eat. For those reading and dont have or like kimchi just add the some beef (I recommend the chopped beef as it cooks up fast and some what more tender than other cuts), beef bouillon gives the ramen a bit more favor but you can also leave this out if you like.
http://twitter.com/RudeMinnesotan Sara Suzanne Berg

I was really weirded out by the idea of putting cheese in there, but it made it REALLLYYYY Good! I’d also never put egg in there, but I wanted to try. and I made bulgogi style chicken and threw that in there too. But no veggies because I didn’t have them lol. But really this was so good, I’m glad I listened to the cheese idea.
http://twitter.com/RudeMinnesotan Sara Suzanne Berg

Sooooo, I had to post again because I made ramen again and this time I added in red peppers to the mix. REALLY good. I also ate the the last bits of ramen and sauce with rice and crispy seaweed. Seriously, one of the best meals EVER.
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http://www.facebook.com/Sickfig Jason E. Wrinkle

Cook your ramen. I like a spicy ramen for this. Drain and set aside. Mix in a bowl or really any thing one table spoon of chunky peanut butter, half a teaspoon of peanut oil, half a teaspoon of soy sauce (not the crap salt flavored stuff but real soy sauce) and a pinch of sugar. In a wok or non- stick pan that is very hot and slightly oiled toss in your mostly drained ramen. let it sit for 30 seconds. Toss in sugar snap peas and bean sprouts (too taste) and the mix. Now toss like crazy until all is coated well and the peas are cooked to your liking…for me it is not very long. Then serve with kimchi. I also like to serve this with boneless skinless chicken that has been breaded in coconut, peanut, sugar, and bread crumbs and deep fried. (but its good by itself)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Cassandra-Moseley/100001600698047 Cassandra Moseley

Wow, 2012 and I’m just now getting around to watching this video… Anyway, I tried it and it’s really delicious. I had to get the Korean ingredients from a place called Jungle Jim’s since I live in the US, though. It was kind of out of my way, but the ramen was definitely worth it :)
garrets_comics

you dont stir in the cheese, you lay the cheese on after the meal is finished… and you eat the cheese first, bite by bite with the ramyun… only a noob would mix in the cheese, that makes the soup look like vomit.

http://profile.yahoo.com/CHWWX7F633GDZ5VKPGA7KFNB24 AlinaH

I like mixing my cheese with my soup – it kind of reminds me of spicy cheese soup. It doesn’t look like vomit, but then again, this is my opinion. To each his/her own?

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http://twitter.com/mcjwserenity Matt Clayton

I put in bits of hot dog and egg in my ramen. I tried putting cheese on it, but it’s just not as good. And that brand of ramen you guys use is HOT (especially the red one Martina used) — good but set my mouth on FIRE. There’s an Asian market near my house called Li Ming’s which specializes in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese food products — there was one big section in one aisle that was devoted to all kinds of ramen.

You guys should do more ‘preparing Korean food’ blogs. TL;DR, Music Mondays and WANK are fun… but you guys should do more food-related vids.
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Hyungjunstarry

totally made shin ramen with kimchi today and added cheese.the ramen timer app really helps me.
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Luca-O-C/858140594 Luca O-C

OMG FIRST EYK EVERRRRR!!!
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ashtenmorgan

S&M have tattoo on the neck and arms so I was wondering is there a meaning to them?

Ramen–I shall try that later on since NC was a korean supermarket ^^