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Welcome to my ramen dream... Currently being interpreted in Ramen Burger Land... Looking for a good slurp? Email me ! - Keizo

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Ramen Resolution 2012...

Day 789:

2011 was an eventful year. It started off with such promise, but I must say that I fell short on almost every resolution I set out to achieve. Well, maybe it wasn't that I fell short. Maybe I just tried to do too much on my own. Or maybe it was just...well...you know...okay maybe not.

Ryu-chan

All I know is that I won't ever be discouraged. Someday might not be good enough for some of you, but I still believe I can someday finish everything I started.

Spicy Shio Chashumen

So what does all this mean for 2012? Being that my visa expires in November, my 2012 resolution will be to work even harder. In life AND in work. There will be no stopping me. All I ask is that you keep believing. Believing in dreams, believing in love, and believing in life. I have no regrets so far and that's how I'd like to keep it.


Anyway, being the first day of the year there isn't really much open. But after making a few calls, Tsukemen Usagi-chan (つけめん うさぎちゃん) in Nakano was perhaps still holding on to the year of the rabbit.


This shop is run mostly by young ladies and has been gaining a considerable amount of publicity in recent months. The shop is very cute, but I must admit that seeing all this pink was a little strange and uncomfortable.


I ordered the Usagi-chan Tsukemen, but before it came out I was given some fresh squeezed carrot juice. Do rabbits drink carrot juice?


Usagi-chan is an interesting new concept, but I wasn't really feeling their tsukemen.


I did like the pasta-like noodles, but everything else lacked impact. In fact, I seem to have already erased it from my mind.


2012 is definitely shaping up to be an interesting year...

5 comments:

  1. Hey Keizo. If you want to stay in Japan longer than 12/11 maybe you should go for PR. You have been here a while, are making major contributions to society and with your family and all I think you'd have a definite shot. By the way, if you need funding for a shop of your own put it out there. I'm sure you'd find some willing investors.

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  2. Keizo, found your blog yesterday and spent a few hours reading it... look forward to trekking over to Shin-Daita one of these days to visit Bassanova and try the green curry ramen.

    Thought you'd be interested to know the Kogen in Yoyogi-Uehara has a special ramen for ichi-gatsu that you mentioned a while ago -- clam chowder ramen! Limited to 10 bowls for lunch and dinner every day this month. Delicious and 850 yen...

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  3. If you ever come and visit the OC again, a new ramen place has just opened up. Ramen Yamadaya in Costa Mesa off of Fairview and Baker, in the Stater Bros. shopping center. I look forward to you're review of the place.

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  4. Happy New Year man! Big things in store for you this year, I can feel it.

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