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That looks unreal. You will find the best catch and cooks on RU-vid on this channel. It simply doesn’t get better then this. From start to finish your videos are amazing taku. Thank you for the post. That was an immaculate ramen. 👌
Taku if you opened up your own restaurant featuring every dish you’ve made on the show it would not only be poppin’ but definitely a 5 star Mechlin restaurant for sure! I believe it! Who wouldn’t wanna try any of your dishes?!
From a Cajun Country native…that looks really good!!! I want crawfish ramen now. After seeing this, I’m surprised this is not already staple here in the “Crawfish Capital”. I’ve never even thought about it until seeing you guys do it. Love the content! Love Taku and Jocelyn! Keep it up. Y’all are killing it!
Before the hondashi was brought out, I was literally thinking "surprised Taku didn't add the kombu at the start and steep the katsuobushi flakes". Taku never disappoints.
Made a goal in life. gonna try to live almost exactly like this guy, I'm already a sushi shef/general cook, i already wanted to do vanlife before Taku and Jocelyn got a van so i wanna do this!
Just a little advice from someone that lives in Louisiana where crawfish is basically part of everything here, the holes one either end of that trap are way to big and they can easily crawl back out. Maybe try something with smaller holes to stop as many from escaping back out. Our traps here have much smaller holes so that the crawfish can basically just fit through and the angle of it is very hard for them to crawl back out. I can always send over some pictures for you to see if that’ll help you understand. Sorry for the lengthy comment, just wanted to try and help! Love the vids!
Immediately after watching this I was inspired and obviously hungry lol. I had some frozen cooked crawfish in the freezer and whipped up a pretty sad replication of your ramen! Took some leftover frozen greens, corn and mushrooms and garlic, simmered that all down in a pan. Steamed the crawfish and put that crawfish water, some crawfish heads together with some cajun seasoning w/msg, garlic salt and dried seaweed and let that reduce a bit while I was extracting all the crawfish tails. It was actually pretty damn flavorful and I'm generally a pretty terrible cook! Thanks for the inspiration Taku!
i love your comment because i love trying to replicate some of these cool and friendly youtubers' creations with my friends! nothing cooler than being motivated and having fun while learning
Growing in Louisiana and Mississippi, I have had some great crawfish in my time. The best that I have ever consumed was crawfish parboiled in a cajun boil, tail meat peeled, then finished off in a smoker with garlic butter.
cue the incoming comments on how you should have done this or that. lmao. love you guys, keep up the good work. no pretense or corny jokes, just good fun and entertainment. thanks!
I don't think theres another chef out here that truly loves eating as much as Taku, Josslyn & Taku are the best thing to watch on RU-vid. Thank you for sharing
Nice videography. Over the years in catching Crayfish, I discovered that the best most effective way to hand catch the Crayfish, is to use 16+ inch long Stainless Steel Food Tongs. As far as Traps go, the Crayster Traps are the overall best made scientifically designed available. They are designed to catch the Bigest of the Signal Crayfish. That was one Big Signal Crayfish you caught there. The PNW Signal Crayfish species is amongst the largest Freshwater Crayfish species in North America. Your recepie looks really good. I make a Ramen or Pasta or Potato stew with Crayfish, Tomato Pepper Sauce or Ponzu sauce , Vinaigrette or TJ Smoky BBQ Coconut Aminos sauce. Yes indeed, Chop Sticks, are a very practical tool to self process Crayfish, Crabs, Lobster, Shrimp etc. Wishing you Safe Journeys.
Really love watching your videos, not only do I enjoy it but it makes me feel good and makes me want to pursue my dream of becoming a culinary chef..Thanks guys
I love crawfish, there is a spot in my town that has great crawfish gumbo, and etuffé. I bought a crawfish trap last year, after someone stole my minnow trap. Back when I was a kid, I would wait until around halloween, and go out at night, they gather in big groups, then I would put a slice of pepperoni on a paper clip, and tie a string to it, then pull em in! They won't let go. Some people use a mesh bag full of suet or other fats for that.
Hey brother, love ur channel. Just a little tip on how I catch crawfish. U take bread the darker the color of the bread the better take the dough and wet it a little and put in chopped garlic and mix it up. Put a hand full in nylon stockings and put it in the trap
Tailing technique! Between the second and third scales towards the tail end, you push that into the tail while still attached the crawfish. Remove tail. Thumb on the inside of the tail, in that 2/3 scale spot. Pressure, and the tail slides right out into your mouth
I'm salivating right about now. I'm from Vermont and my roommate and I catch signal crayfish for bait. ( large and smallmouth bass love them. But.......the last time we caught a bunch of them, like 84 of them and I cooked them up in a small Cajun steam and he absolutely loved them. Invasive and delicious at the same time. Great video's. Loyal fan for life. Take care and God bless you and your girl.
I love these different types of ramens dishes, plus learning how’s he’s doing it so I can impress my ladie with restaurants quality ramen from now on!! 💯🙏🏾
Louisiana native, here. I loved to Washington state when I was 21 having spent my entire life in Louisiana, up to that point. When I found out that THESE crawfish existed in the PNW and that *NO ONE* was eating them, I was shocked. These look great. Enjoyable episode.
Brings back memories from when I was a kid. Tualatin Crawfish Festival, catching them in creeks all over the place, and one time at South Twin Lake they came out after dark in their hundreds. Just waded around and picked them up. Had an inflatable raft we tossed them into. Had a massive crawdad boil that most of the campground helped eat. Never made ramen from them...why not? Sounds good!
