{"id":727,"date":"2008-01-10T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T15:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/01\/tonkotsu-gram\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T15:31:45","slug":"tonkotsu-gram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/01\/10\/tonkotsu-gram\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonkotsu-gram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonkotsu ramen is my favorite noodle soup by far, and unfortunately, there are no places to get really good tonkotsu in Monterey. I had gone so long without tonkotsu that Shinsengumi was the place where I wanted to eat the most on my last trip to Southern California. If only I could get Tonkotsu up North, I would be really happy – I remember thinking this when I departed on January 2nd for Monterey.
\nVacation came a few days later. On my first day off, I received a notification that an undelivered parcel from Japan was waiting at the Pacific Grove post office for me. Due to power outages and other obstacles, I wouldn’t end up getting this parcel for another 3 days, and only then after a 20 minute wait in a line packed with people trying to do everything that the post office was capable of, it seemed. The staff at the PG post office is polite and efficient, much like a Japanese Post office.
\nI was surprised to read this label on the box that was handed to me:
\n\"instantramentag.JPG\"<\/span>
\nReading the label, I knew that this wasn’t going to be a pack of Top Ramen or Cup o Noodle, but it did raise a chuckle.
\nOne of my favorite teachers from Ubuyama, Hieda-sensei, must have been listening to my thoughts because he quickly dispatched a 3 pack of instant Kumamoto-style tonkotsu ramen, complete with takana from Aso-prefecture!
\n\"kurotei.jpg\"<\/span>
\nHere are the ingredients for my Kurotei instant ramen:
\ncup noodle
\npork broth
\nsalt
\nshoyu
\nnatana oil
\nlard(!)
\ngarlic
\n?
\nstarch
\nkarashi peppers
\namino acids
\ncaramel color
\nrendered bones
\nsweet flavoring
\nseaweed
\nAnd there’s more, but I’m getting tired of looking up kanji and trying to remember Japanese. I think I’m going to have to prepare extra noodles so that I can enjoy the broth to the fullest with kaidama…
\nTo Hieda-sensei, the man who dared to climb Mount Kuju during the middle of a blizzard on April 4th, 2004 with Ubuyama-mura’s 3rd resident ambassador of gaikokujin, I am truly in your debt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonkotsu ramen is my favorite noodle soup by far, and unfortunately, there are no places to get really good tonkotsu in Monterey. I had gone so long without tonkotsu that Shinsengumi was the place where I wanted to eat the most on my last trip to Southern California. If only I could get Tonkotsu up … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}