{"id":1165,"date":"2012-04-20T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letsnomnom.wordpress.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2017-03-20T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T01:48:08","slug":"hide-chan-ramen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/hide-chan-ramen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide-Chan Ramen (Again!), Midtown East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hide-Chan Ramen, round 2! If you haven\u2019t figured this out already, I\u2019m a bit of a ramen fanatic. How can you say no to a piping hot bowl of ramen?! Especially when it has char siu on top! Japanese comfort food, that\u2019s what it is. And yes, I put vegetarianism on hold whenever I get ramen.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m quite proud of how I somehow managed to convince John, who normally doesn\u2019t like soupy dishes, to get ramen with me. He was lured by the \u201cselect the richness of your broth a.k.a. pork fat content\u201d option that Hide-Chan is known for. We decided, ahead of time, that we would go all out and get the rich broth. Oh yes, RICH BROTH, filled with porky goodness. I\u2019ll admit that I was a little scared, but there was no backing out. \"Hide-Chan<\/a>After John diligently studied the menu, he decided on the Hakata Kuro Ramen with firm noodles and rich broth. I was very tempted to get the black garlic again<\/a>, but decided to try the Tonkutsu Miso Ramen with medium noodles and rich broth. On my last visit, I got medium broth, which already had plenty of delicious porky flavors. This time we\u2019re moving up on the porky goodness scale. As we were anxiously awaiting our ramen, we noticed a popularity ranking sign by our table. Apparently we were getting the #2 and #3 for ramen. \"Hide-Chan<\/a>I believe John\u2019s response was something along the lines of \u201cHoly cow! That\u2019s black!\u201d when his Hakata Kuro Ramen was placed in front of him. \"Hide-Chan<\/a>My Tonkotsu Miso Ramen was equally as impressive. It may not have the color, but seriously, look at that broth! They\u2019re not kidding around when you ask for the rich broth. Porky goodness to the extreme. \"Hide-Chan<\/a>The Tonkotsu Miso comes with the thicker, wavy noodles. Even though I ordered medium noodles, they were, in my opinion, closer to firm. I suspect I\u2019m one of the few who actually prefers softer noodles. The char siu once again was to die for. I tend to get a little weirded out and disturbed by meat that is too fatty, but that wasn\u2019t the case with this char siu. Yes, I know it\u2019s fatty, very FATTY\u2026 but it had so much flavor, I didn\u2019t even notice the fattiness. Porky goodness, for the win. \"Hide-Chan<\/a>Don\u2019t worry, I didn\u2019t let that broth go to waste. Slurped it all up, and John did the same with his black garlic broth. \"Hide-Chan<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, I should point out that we were at Hide-Chan at 6pm on Sunday. There was no wait, and our ramen was brought very quickly. No wait for comfort food? That is awesome. After all that broth, the walk from Hide-Chan back to subway station was pretty awful. I kept wanting to lie down and take a nap! We both fell asleep on the train and drank a lot of water when we got home.<\/p>\n

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Hide-Chan Ramen, round 2! If you haven\u2019t figured this out already, I\u2019m a bit of a ramen fanatic. How can you say no to a piping hot bowl of ramen?! Especially when it has char siu on top! Japanese comfort food, that\u2019s what it is. And yes, I put vegetarianism on hold whenever I get ramen. I\u2019m quite proud of how I somehow managed to convince John, who normally doesn\u2019t like soupy dishes, to get ramen with me. He was lured by the \u201cselect the richness of your broth a.k.a. pork fat content\u201d option that Hide-Chan is known for. We decided, ahead of time, that we would go all out and get the rich broth. Oh yes, RICH BROTH, filled with porky goodness. I\u2019ll admit that I was a little scared, but there was no backing out. After John diligently studied the menu, he decided on the Hakata Kuro Ramen with firm noodles and rich broth. I was very tempted to get the black garlic again, but decided to try the Tonkutsu Miso Ramen with medium noodles and rich broth. On my last visit, I got medium broth, which already had plenty of delicious porky flavors. This time we\u2019re moving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3355,3359],"tags":[273,540,727,1323,1374,1498,1824,1851,2471,2979],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/122.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}