Ramen of the Day
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This is Kumamoto-style ramen, which I made for dinner this evening.
Traditionally, it's a tonkotsu ramen, like in the neighbouring Fukuoka prefecture. What sets it apart from Hakata ramen, though, is garlic. Vast, copious, French-level amounts of garlic, and then some. Primarly in the form of black (burnt) garlic oil, but also in the form of a mountain of fried garlic chips as a topping.
It was fucking delicious. Of course, it was fucking delicious, come on. I'm going to stink to high heaven tomorrow, and I'll be proud of how I got there.
I don't think this bowl is has reached its final form though, because there were a couple of issues that I had:
• Firstly, I couldn't find any reference at all on Google or Reddit for which tare is typically used. They _only_ thing I had to go on was a documentary on the subject from NHK World (in fact, the reason I decided to try this in the first instance) in which a very quick half-second bit of footage from a local ramen-ya was shown, where the oil is being poured at the bottom of an otherwise empty bowl — save for what appeared to be a quantity shio tare, in preparation for plating. Thus, I decided to go with my smoked shio tare. Which, it turns out, is never not awesome, but that's not the issue, here.
As such: I'm not 100% certain at all that shio is fundamentally typical/traditional for this style, though, so further reasearch is required.
• Secondly is the black garlic oil itself. Rather than forming beautiful shiny black pearls and globs on the surface of the soup, mine dissipated into it completely, mixing the burnt garlic particulate into the soup evenly, and changing its colour from white to brown. This tells me my oil's suspension didn't hold, even though it should have, so I have to figure this out. It didn't affect the flavour or mouthfeel, but it didn't _look_ the part.
All the same: this was fucking wonderful, and much, much, much needed on this cloudy, foggy, -3° evening.
- That looks stupid good.skinny_puppy
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Ahhhh Yeaahhh!
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