{"id":97,"date":"2003-11-26T23:01:13","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2003\/11\/the-origins-of-rocketbowl-saimin\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T23:01:13","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T23:01:13","slug":"the-origins-of-rocketbowl-saimin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2003\/11\/26\/the-origins-of-rocketbowl-saimin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins Of RocketBowl Saimin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled among my childhood memories of visiting Gardena and West L.A. is one of my Dad taking us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowling2u.com\/centers\/find_detail.asp?ID=270\">RocketBowl<\/a> for a big, steaming bowl of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aloha-hawaii.com\/c_saimin.shtml\">Saimin<\/a>. It is a simple soup that sort of bears a resemblance to ramen, but the noodles are wavy, and the broth is almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pholist.org\/\">pho<\/a>-ish, served with red ginger and green onions.<br \/>\nAlong with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithpr.com\/2jb\/2jb0207.html\">waffle dogs, locomoco, various spam dishes, and plate lunches<\/a>, I remember eating some good saimin on my last trip to Hawaii. Up until that point, I just assumed that Saimin was a hybrid food, the result of a fusion of Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian cooking, but I was wrong. I found out where Saimin (for all of you haolies and mainlanders, this is a noodle soup popular to Hawaii) originated: that place is Okinawa, and over there it is known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonder-okinawa.jp\/026\/e\/oki_soba.html\">Okinawa Soba<\/a>. Bringing things full circle, the Okinawans make their fried rice with Spam! Ah, those islanders, they know how to eat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled among my childhood memories of visiting Gardena and West L.A. is one of my Dad taking us to RocketBowl for a big, steaming bowl of Saimin. It is a simple soup that sort of bears a resemblance to ramen, but the noodles are wavy, and the broth is almost pho-ish, served with red ginger &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2003\/11\/26\/the-origins-of-rocketbowl-saimin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}