二郎系ラーメンの魅力
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
So, we talked about 二郎系ラーメン.
Yes.
And the henshu guy for our team loves 二郎系ラーメン.
We've talked about it.
He's like the king of 二郎系ラーメン eaters.
I saw his content.
I saw like a 密着 of his days.
Blown away.
Really?
He went to 7 家系ラーメン in a day.
家系?
Yes.
Sorry, 二郎系?
A day?
A day.
That's crazy.
That is crazy.
That is crazy.
That is fucking crazy.
7?
Yeah.
I mean, really?
What the hell?
Like 7, even if he was like small, whatever.
Whatever, the smallest ramen on earth.
Yeah, he said, so on that 7, he did like halves on some of them.
Okay.
But not all of them.
Only some of them.
Okay.
I mean, half, you mean that's half of 二郎, right?
Yeah.
That means like oomori of usual ramen shops.
Right, right.
They have lots of men.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
7?
7.
I think it's totally, I don't, I mean, we don't have the same function in science.
Yeah, he's probably one of those people that can eat a lot.
Yeah.
We sometimes see them, see them like in like a...
Yeah, oomori people.
I think he's one of those people.
But 7 though, right?
That's crazy.
And as a 二郎 lover, I understand like two 二郎s a day.
You can understand that?
I understand that.
Like daytime one and nighttime, like he comes back.
Jesus.
And you're like, oh, that was good.
That's crazy.
That's crazy enough, by the way.
Yeah.
For someone like me, that's crazy enough.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
But I've never done that before.
Okay.
But I understand that.
But 7 is, you don't have 7 meals, first of all.
I know.
Let alone be a ramen, right?
Yeah.
And also, Jiro is really, really kind of like a popular places.
Yeah.
So if you want to eat Jiro ramen, you kind of have to wait for an hour.
Yeah.
So at least.
Yeah.
So several of the shops that he went to waited for an hour.
Several.
Several.
So it's like, is it even possible?
Like.
Yeah, they did it.
So, okay.
So he didn't.
So precisely, it was 7 bowls of ramen.
That guy ordered 2 bowls of ramen in one place.
Oh, is that possible?
Yeah.
He did that.
Or like, Narabinoushi.
Wow.
Unbelievably, what's wild?
What's out of this world?
I have never imagined the possibility of ordering 2 bowls in one time.
That's an unlock.
Wow.
That's an unlock for you.
It's a new world.
It's, I mean.
It's ridiculous.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
7, okay.
How many stores have you experienced?
Me?
Jiro.
Okay, let me count.
Yeah.
I think 6.
That's a lot, right?
Okay, I'm sorry.
In your world, 6 is not a lot.
In your culture, it's not a lot.
I forgot about that.
Sorry.
You guys have this form of respect.
No, no, no.
Honestly, 6 isn't much.
Honestly, 6 is not much, right?
Like, compared to all the other players out there.
It's not a lot, right?
Yeah, I mean.
In your culture, it's not a lot.
I mean, I don't even compare to players, right?
Okay.
You're not a player, yeah.
I just compare to, like, in general.
If I compare to you, 6 is, no, it's not that big.
We're in the same range.
We're in the same sort of ranking.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got it.
正統派と非正統派の違い
All Jiro.
Not, like, Inspired or?
One Inspired.
One Inspired?
Okay.
Like, the actual.
Yeah.
But, you know, there are Inspired Kei.
But, actually, they're just saying they're Inspired Kei.
But it's not, kind of, the real Inspired.
Oh.
It's like, you've got, like.
There's, like, the authentic Inspired?
And then, it's like that.
And you have proper.
Proper Inspired Kei.
Inspired Kei.
That somebody, you know, Tenshu, Master, was, you know, worked in this proper Jiro.
He didn't do that.
Kind of like that.
How different is the actual authentic Inspired Kei?
How different is that?
Like.
From the authentic?
Yeah.
It depends on the stores.
Okay.
But, in some Inspired, the tastes are completely different.
Oh, okay.
Like, you put some different taste, you know.
Like, some of them are, like, spicy.
Oh, okay.
Some of them are, like, you know.
But, there's an element that's same.
Yes.
Is that correct?
Yes.
For example, like, men itself.
Or, like, same.
Soup.
Okay.
It's really close.
I see.
So, what about the non-authentic Inspired?
How's that?
How are they?
What are they missing from?
The soul.
The soul?
Yeah.
You can feel it.
How's that?
The soul?
Yeah.
It's just kind of mimicking.
Oh, okay.
They're just trying to.
Be like.
Yeah.
They're like a wannabe.
Yeah.
Right.
They're wannabes.
They just pretend that, you know.
They just want to make something like Jiro.
They just take, you know, like a soy sauce taste.
And, like, big pork inside.
You know, boiled vegetables on top like this.
They try to make it look like.
I see.
But, without the, like, kind of the core taste.
I see.
It's only the looks.
Yeah.
It's empty inside.
Yeah.
I see.
Well, it's good, though.
Yeah.
It's good as just a ramen.
二郎系ラーメンの文化
It's just an experience.
But.
The one we bought the other day for.
Yeah.
Is that inspired or.
Is that like the authentic inspired or like the non-authentic inspired?
No, no.
That was a non-authentic.
Okay.
I see.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
Got it.
So, it was missing.
The core.
Okay.
But, you know, at least.
From a far distance.
It's all the same, I guess.
Yeah.
From people like you.
Yeah.
Or from people like everywhere.
It's all the same.
Yeah.
Looks same.
Tastes same, I guess.
But.
Hmm.
I guess it's like.
For example, like, English in New York versus English in Southern America.
Oh, like the little accents?
Yeah.
Those things, I feel like.
Oh.
Yeah.
From a distance, it's all just English.
It's all English.
Yeah.
But, when you're in it.
Yeah.
It's obvious.
Completely different.
I see.
Those kind of.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
Okay.
And also, you know, those are ramen.
Yaki ramen are not something you can eat seven bowls a day.
Yeah.
Right?
Right.
If you eat one in your days.
You're good.
Over.
Yeah.
Right?
So.
And you can't eat like every day.
Yeah.
It's to me like once a month.
Yeah.
Kind of special dish to me.
Yeah.
So, that's why I don't want to waste that occasion.
On to something not authentic.
Yeah.
I'd love to experience the one I really want to.
Because I have only one ticket a month.
You know?
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
I see.
So, we're going to do a blindfold test for you.
We're going to blindfold you.
And we're going to go for the non-authentic versus authentic.
And see if you can tell the difference.
Right.
Try that.
Try that.
Yeah.
Some of the places you can do a takeout, right?
If it's inspired.
Inspired.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
But the places you can take out.
That's first of all.
It's usually non-authentic?
Yeah.
It's not.
Okay.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
So, you can't really find an authentic takeout.
Right.
Right.
It's the store is the authentic one.
So.
Okay.
I see.
Got it.
And also in store.
I'm sure you can't do like this.
Yeah.
You'll be shouted at.
You'll be shouted at.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They have a strict culture.
All right.
Thanks for sitting guys.
Thank you.
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