thoughts & ramen reviews


Tandou Ramen - 4/5

For those of you who know me even a bit, you will know that I love ramen. For those of you who know me a bit more than a bit, you will know that my prime way of dealing with the stresses and frustrations of life is to stress eat. Cravings often come in the form of pho, korean tofu stew, rice cakes, fried chicken, ramen (of course).

Something that not a lot of people know about me though, is that I used to hate soup in noodles as a kid. When I first moved back to Canada when I was 10, my dad was still in Taiwan so it was just my brothers and I. My brothers, being the early 20-something year olds they were at the time, did not know how to cook. So we ended up at pho places a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Multiple times a week. I hated pho as a result, and anything soup noodle. It was also too hard to eat - it’s not a beginner’s skill to cut a long chain of noodles with two flimsy wooden...

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