I love both insta and properly made ramen.
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noodles are good, folks!
took me a long time to realise what Americans meant by ramen. Especially when they considered it low budget food. Instant noodles are not really ramen
I assume it’s a regional thing. “Instant ramen” are noodles or 2 minute noodles here. It’s rarely labelled as ramen and never called it.
From childhood I knew about ramen from anime and I knew about instant ramen from American media but I didn’t learn until later that they aren’t the same thing and instant reman is just 2 minute noodles.
Says ramen right on the package bro
yeah that’s the weird part
I dream of eating good ramen, same with pizza and Miso soup, I'm sure they exists somewhere.
Ramen isnt difficult to make from the ground up...just takes ages
Isn't this meme the wrong way round?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character is the philistine who would be on the instant noodle pot
Unless OP is saying instant noodle pots are the superior form, which I can't agree with, but I guess someone out there is gonna
Maybe OP is Korean lol
You're right, but at first I thought the OP was trying to pull a fast one on us and the right was a picture of that super expensive restaurant ramen that serves in a shitty ramen cup.
Depends on my mood. 95% of the time the ramen on the left is superior, but once in a while you get a hunger which only instant ramen can satisfy.