ラーメンの食べ方の効率性
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
So I have a question.
Okay.
This might make some people angry.
Oh.
This might make people disappointed.
Oh.
This might make people think that I have no love.
Okay.
Against ramen.
Okay.
But I have a question about ramen.
Okay.
I'm not sure if I can...
Okay.
Do you...
Okay.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Go ahead.
I'll ask.
Yeah.
I don't know if ramen is the most efficient way to consume the noodles and the toppings
together.
Okay. Okay.
I think there's a much better way to have the toppings and the noodles and the soup in your
mouth than what it is right now.
I see.
With noodles, there are no spoons.
It just falls off.
So when you eat the ramen and then towards the end, you have all of these toppings that
have fallen out of your chopsticks.
And maybe it was on the noodles beginning, but when it's in your mouth, it fell off and
it's just...
You have all these pile of toppings left, right?
Sometimes even with the tantanmen, you have the spoon and the hold spoon, right?
To get the meat miso scooped out from the bottom of the bowl.
Yeah.
Now, is that the most efficient way of consuming all the combination of the ingredients in
the bowl is my question.
That has not changed, right?
Why?
Because there's so many comments saying that, oh, with this tantanmen, there's a lot of
soup and a lot of noodles coming in.
If you want the soup, why don't you just...
Why don't you spoon?
And maybe we could chop off, we could chop the noodles into all these, maybe like a boba
shaped shit.
And then just spoon it.
I think that's a much more effective though, like effectiveness.
I'm not talking about aestheticness.
Sure, ramen has its own aesthetic, but what do you think about that, man?
What do you think?
Yeah, I get it.
Especially when I, at the very end, I finished the old men's noodles and every time I pick,
you know, the little slight onions or like little moyashi, I dig into the soup, which
will mainly like, you can see the deep inside and I just try to like, dig down and then
like, oh yeah, I got one moyashi.
Yes, yes.
Like that, and oh, one onion, one slice of onion.
Yes, I got, oh, I found a little meat.
Yeah, oh, you're lucky.
Yeah, we got the meat.
Oh, you lost it.
No, no, no.
What the hell are we doing here?
It's true.
What the hell are we doing?
It's true, it's true.
ラーメンの食べ方の課題
Yeah, I agree with that.
What do you think about that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why hasn't that changed?
It's true.
We care so much about the quality of the men, quality of the soup and the toppings.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's true.
Right?
The basic concept of the ramen hasn't changed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's true.
For example, like a miso, like a Hokkaido miso butter ramen, they've got like spoons with holes.
Yeah.
And then you can scoop that.
Scoop the toppings, right?
The toppings, yeah.
Yeah, so that's, yeah.
That's good.
That's a good invention.
That's health, right?
Yeah, yeah.
For that, for that style, you need it.
You're right, you need it.
I would carry that for every ramen.
Yeah, because I have to like use the chopsticks and then try to dig everything out.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree with that.
Yeah, like, I mean, it makes, okay.
Hokkaido ramen, Hokkaido butter ramen, corn ramen.
How the fuck do you eat the corn?
What do you mean?
It's impossible to scoop the noodles with the corn.
True.
How the hell do you eat the corn?
You're talking about that.
You want to eat together.
Isn't that what you're meant to do?
Wait, is that what we're different?
Aren't we meant to eat all that together?
Like the men, the noodles and the soup and the toppings.
Or is that different?
Well, I'm not sure.
Maybe I'm wrong.
That's something you should eat, like all together.
One scoop, one mouth, one bite.
But for like corns or like those things, I don't even try to put in mouth all together.
At the same time?
Yeah, anymore.
Like, if it's like moyashi, you know, like a noodle shape.
I try to put it together.
But like a corn or like hikiniku?
That's impossible.
Yeah.
Like today, I don't even try to do that.
Yeah.
Because you've given up on it, right?
Because it's impossible.
Because it's impossible.
Yeah.
I'm really lucky if I can get something on top.
On top, right?
Oh, I got a meat on it.
And that's the feeling you get.
Lucky.
Yeah, I feel lucky.
So then you wanted it to go in your mouth at the same time.
Yeah.
So what I do is like try getting noodles first.
And then I put like meat to put in my mouth.
Oh, okay.
And like mix together in my mouth.
Oh, okay.
That's what I do.
Yeah.
So true.
What are we doing here?
That's true.
Yeah, that's true.
Right?
What are we doing here?
What are we doing here?
Yeah, it's not...
If the ramen owners, ramen tenshus, want us to eat everything at one time.
Yeah.
Then I don't even try to cooperate with that anymore.
Right.
And that's the problem.
Right, right.
True.
But isn't it impossible?
ラーメンの新しい提案
Well, my solution here is to change the noodles' shape so that it's shaped like little balls.
Okay.
Yeah.
And you're ultimately left with eating it with a spoon.
You're not going to use chopsticks.
Okay.
Just spoons.
Right.
And then you scoop out the toppings and the...
It's not noodles anymore.
Yeah, it's more like a resort or things like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what you do.
That's my proposal here.
That's your alternative.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Which I know might disappoint people.
That's why I prefaced it at the beginning.
It might disappoint people, you know.
Some people will be mad at you.
You know, it's going to lose the aesthetic.
It's not ramen anymore.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Logically thinking.
Yeah.
That's one way of putting all that in your mouth.
True.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Logically though.
Logically.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
So when I do like a...
You know the ramen...
No, no, no.
Ramen rice?
Ramen rice.
Yeah.
When you finish your ramen and then you get a little bowl of rice.
Okay.
And then you make a...
You put soup in it.
Oh, like get it into like a risotto.
Yeah, things like that.
Oh, okay.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can eat with a spoon.
Yes.
So on that stage...
Yes.
You can get all of the things left in the ramen bowl.
Oh, okay.
I see, I see.
And I feel so good when I do this.
Because you've eaten all the valuable stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's more logical, right?
That's logical.
You mean?
That's more logical.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I get it.
So yeah.
Yeah, right.
Right.
I was just wondering.
You get it.
You get it.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
So just a proposal just out there.
Yeah.
Just why.
I don't know if this is the most effective way to scoop up the form of ramen.
Are we at the ultimate stage?
Right.
Yeah.
I want to hear from the ramen...
Ramen side?
Yeah.
Tenshi-sans.
If they really want to ask to eat everything together or just they don't care.
ラーメンの形と食べ方の考察
It's like...
Or even they prefer like men...
Taste the men.
Ah, just only the noodles.
And then...
Get it separately.
Yeah.
Eat the topping separately.
Maybe.
Because that's what happened to seaweeds, right?
Oh, yeah.
There was an answer.
Like koshiki...
When you're eating the seaweed...
Yeah.
Seaweed sheets.
Nori.
You eat it separately, right?
You were meant to eat it separately.
Oh.
I think I heard it from you.
Oh, from me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But that's what I do.
Oh, yeah.
So maybe like they want to taste the men itself.
Yeah, right.
Like a moyashi self with a soup.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
