RAMEN SPERG TIME!
First up: I've never seen spicy edamame before. Most places I know serve it plain with just salt afaik. Almost seems like an americanism
The chashu bun seems like a crossover from chinese cooking. Go google "gua bao". That being said, I don't really consider it to be an abomination, since the chinese version doesnt seem too different? The tonkatsu bun though, on the other hand... that's definitely a bigger divergence from the original
> tendon ramen
Firstly, it feels like the americans just mashed together tendon (which is tempura over rice) and ramen. They could've called it "tempura ramen" instead but it really feels like I'm being a linguistic sperg for nitpicking this. And secondly, just why? the soup will instantly de-crisp the tempura.
> cheese ramen
☪. Unlike the korean implementation of this (where they use spicy/sour broth) which contrasts with the cheese, this feels like it'd be an overly-rich mess.
> kimchi ramen
Definitely feeling the american East-Asia-Amorph-ization here lol. might work though.
> wagyu ramen
someone said they don't trust it. Yeah, I agree.
As for the ramen itself, it looks pretty good. The broth looks a bit pale, but I usually do black/garlic ramen so that might just be my personal expectations talking.
Jack making Ramen would be a nightmare, especially if he insisted on doing the broth properly. Its something like twelve hours at a full boil with the pork bones, to get it right. I've had 2-3 hour broths and they're fucking garbage, not even worth bothering.
I've brewed tonkotsu broth myself, several times before. I hardly do it anymore, since it takes like 12 hours of boiling (and I mean with bubbles forming and shit) pork trotters (Not just bones. You have to have the skin and cartilage for collagen to be extracted into the broth) and and am thus more than happy to outsource it to my local restaurants. It also takes at least 6 hours to get any appreciable amount of collagen.
Why is this PL relevant? Because I know that if you clean the pork (which is to say, simmer it for about 30 minutes to get the blood and stuff out (which I have no doubt jack will skip, whether out of sloth or incompetence)), the broth is a near-white cream-beige colour. So, yeah, it looks pale, as it should be, and I dont hold it against them.
You're a man of good taste for getting black garlic ramen, though.
The only part he'd probably get right is the pork belly, because a very fatty one is a perfectly valid way to make it. Pretty sure that takes a while too though.
It absolutely does. I've done it too, I feel like it takes at least an hour in the slow cooker. That said, I have, at times, felt like doing it with a leaner cut, lest (in the words of the illustrious
@AnOminous ) I swell up like chairman Mao