How Korean Ramen Is Different From Japanese Ramen - K-Town 

No lie. I went to a Korean restaurant and wanted to have an authentic ramyeon. I literally got a Shin ramen and an egg served to me. I know because I've eaten that brand a hundred times in college. 😑Now I know why

Why would you want to make your hand made noodle to taste like instant noodle? It's like if Hyundai says "we will make a supercar but we will make it look like a Hyundai Excel."

Why am I doing this to myself again and again?

*The Korean variant of Japanese ramen was the new star in the Korean food scene in the 1960s. Once dubbed “second rice,” instant ramen gained huge popularity when it was first introduced to Korea in 1963. Ramen, known as “ramyeon” in Korean, was priced at 15 won (currently 1.2 cents) when it first came to Korea and was a meal even the poorest Koreans could afford." source: **www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151210001173*

We ate at JeJu last week and the Ramyun was amazing! A little pricey, but our test kitchen crew really liked them.

I️ think one thing about this that bothers me is that he kinda preaches the whole “originated in Korea thing” and kinda chastises other cultures who have takes on Korean dishes. It’s almost like he’s saying it’s not ok for other cultures to use Korean dishes but it’s ok for Korea to use Japanese and Chinese dishes.(I️ Say Japanese Bc mainstream popular ramen is of Japanese origin, but ramen originated in China)

Matthew and Lucas are food ambassadors to the whole world. Eater is fantastic due to these guys.

I was reading the descriptions and saw an error! So just a reminder: Shin Ramyun is a type of ramyun that is made by the company, Nong Shim.

Ironic when real ramen try to imitate instant ramen.

really don't know why they call instant noodle "ramen"

I can see from a first glance that is NOT a Korean "ramyun." That ramen is heavily influenced by the Japanese style ramen (thick, heavy broth, noodles, chashu and other toppings). And yes, like all the other comments say, ramen originated from China.. I hope you can go over the history of food at least a little bit so that you don't get yourself chewed by comments.

tbf I would expect more than instant ramen if I went to a resturant

I kinda feel bad for the Chinese. You know, the country that invented noodles in the first place. They always seem kinda forgotten internationally when it comes to noodle dishes... it's always some obscure little place at a mall outside the city, compared to the ramen joints with big restaurants all over Manhattan.

They are both good, but Japanese ramen is like so damn good. Love it! 🍲

Food is transitional and great food brings people together. Here in L.A., we have virtually every form of food fusion and for this, I'm grateful.

"herb oil dabbed on top" - video shows squirt bottle blowing a quarter of a cup of oil into the bowl lulz...

Props for that MP3- lossless analogy!

Hehe. A piece of noodle jumped out of your mouth 5:00 There's so many noodles, I guess a piece escaping is ok.

Can I just say that besides flavor, the primary purpose of fat and oils in ramen broth is to maintain the heat and temperature. That’s why a lot of ramen rely on either a lighter broth such as shio or dashi, or with light toppings such as menma or nori to compliment the heaviness of the fats.

I don't see the one MAJOR thing that makes Korean Ramen Korean. Kimchi.

Imagine not knowing how to slurp noodles. What?

How about.... just use the Japanese ramen noodles and twist the broth into Korean?

I lost it when he compared the ramen to a FLAC over an mp3 audio file 🤣

I don’t understand why they are striving in doing something that even doesn’t exist in Korea.

How do you control the raw freshness of packaged dried noodles. Large industrial made noodles will always have the need to be lowered in price with the cost of not being so natural and fresh any longer.

It's still ramen, done by a Korean chef.

Guys, can we stop featuring only NYC? What about all the other great food cities?

I was first introduced to ramen by a Japanese co-worker. She would eat the stuff at least once a week

Those noodles seem lazy for a restaurant. And there aren't any korean cooking techniques being used. It just doesn't seem worth it.

There are some japanese ramen that aren't oily though. lowkey feels like this show subtly bashes japanese culture sometimes lol

Might as well have the real thing " Japanese Ramen " instead of the imitation " Korean Ramen "

honestly, I still prefer Japanese over korean noodlea. I don't taste anything but kimchi on korean noodles.

Food looks good. I wished they gave more info on the noodles: do they make it on site, do they have a supplier, do they use dried or fresh? There is something about the K-Town series that frustrates me... I can't place it.

im hungry now....

Most korean ramen(ramyun) is instant noodle

"blah blah depth of flavor, but blah blah depth of flavor, when blah blah depth of flavor"

He bit the noodles instead of slurping them 3:22 ...I'm cringing

I'm enough of a geek to admit that my associations with ramyeon are mainly from Noblesse. This looks way more awesome than what they were up to in the webcomic.

I live in Korea currently and I love the food. However, I've never had a good bowl of Korean ramen. Mainly because it's always instant.

being korean, i want to say this looks really good. but i dunno, japanese people have ramen down. but, i think koreans have instant noodle hands down. Koreans are kings, with instant ramyun, with all the innovations and various food combination with instant ramyun.

Korean noodles = "Ramyon", not "Korean ramen". Japanese noodles = "Ramen".

Where is the Korean element? That's a Japanese copy of bonito and shiitake mushroom soup stock

So basically, this rip off chef just replaced the noodles in Japanese ramen with packaged instant noodles and called it Korean ramen....

I had my favorite restaurant that was also a drug front I'm pretty sure but the made the BEST spicy kimchi ramen ever

Let's talk about Korea honestly. Until 1910, before Japanese Empire occupied Korean peninsula, There was the slave system in Korea (Chosun, 노비 제도). At least a half of Korean people were slaves at that times. Japanese Empire liberated them to free citizen. Lots of Korean really welcome Japanese Empire and then Japanese Empire made public school education system in Korea peninsula for the first time. They all received the same education system without discrimination in their class. Most of Korean did not do independence movement activity during the Japanese colonial times. After WW2, America and Britain tried to find Korean independent activist but failed to find anyone. and come to now, North Korea has no need to say, and South Korea look like they have pursued democracy since 1987, but they have done from 93% to 97% votes for regional tribalism. Indeed South Korea did not democracy but they did ethnocracy. Furthermore, the Cold War has been over for over 40 years, but South and North, both of Koreans failed to unite to one Korea. In addition, Koreans say that Hangul their own character is the best character in the universe. However, Hangul was used after 1970s officially. Until then, they all lived depending on Chinese characters for more thousand years ago. Even until the 1990s, all legal document in law were Chinese characters. furthermore Hangul is pure phonetic alphabet character, so that's benefits or damages have not yet been verified. The name of Jeju in this video, Do you know the history of Jeju? after WW2, Jeju is the most protesting against Republic of Korea establishment and took place first huge armed rebellion. They followed North Korea and Kim's family at that times and they still commemorates 4.3 Jeju rebellion.

For people who don't know: Jeju is the name of an island located in the Southern Sea of the Korean Peninsula. As Jeju island is the only big island isolated from the peninsula, the people in Jeju have their own distinctive dialect and sea-based culture, although the newer generation mostly lost their accent and also their culture.

Ramen is awesome! :)

I was supposed to br asleep but instead i was watching eater

Noodle soup. Every Asian country has one and they're all great.

Yeah i like Ramyun since there's no many Japanese instant ramen available in market because average of ramen served in ramen bar.

Meh the way it's prepared still mimics japanese ramen a lot. It's more like japanese ramen with a korean spin on it than "purely korean".

typical instant noodles gets softer until mushed if continue to boil pass its package boiling time, some brands are finicky that one minute excess will quickly change the noodle texture. But koreans say it their instant noodles turns springy and nice if you add cold water on a cooked instant noodles, sound odd but I guess it works

They couldnt redo the part when the food dropped from his mouth? lol

So the Koreans answer to making their ramen better is imitating Japanese ramen? Good job!!

He ate 3 bowls of Ramen?? All that fluid man.

Awesome! Also I need that shirt.

Hurry up and buy!!!

How Korean Ramen is different from Japanese Ramen- one is instant and the other has an instant and fresh restaurant version. Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen any Korean Ramen made from scratch that is not from a pack or is distinctively different from the Japanese version. When you order it in restaurants, it's almost always from a pack. Here they made an attempt at making a version of their own but I don't really see the difference from the Japanese style ramen, just the noodles.

This is nice to see. It would be nice if more of these places popped up around the world, cooking Korean ramen fresh, from scratch like this. As much as I enjoy Korean instant ramen, it would be nice to have it fresh, as it's probably a lot healthier.

Uses bonito flakes and Wagyu beef. “Korean ramen” using Japanese ingredients. Just stick to Korean BBQ

Americans may love ramen for those qualities noted in the video but let's not forget the main reason here...it's freakin' affordable. By affordable, I mean "cheap"! Where else would a bare-bones 'pasta' meal cost about a quarter? Yeah, you can up the cost by slicing a hot dog into it but it still feeds a body for under a buck. A lot of students (and quite a large percentage of today's working families) would starve if it weren't for ramen being so inexpensive. It's even cheaper than that traditional american favorite...mac and cheese!

Great video!

As a Japanese ramen fan ,I think the noodles need some work

This comments section needs more peanut butter cause there’s so much jelly!

Hey the chef was in buzzfeed???

Guys I don't see him bashing on Japanese ramen at all. He's merely saying, "hey Japanese ramen has been popular in the states, but let's give Korean ramyeon or a spin on the Japanese ramen with Korean flavors a try"

ramen is original, ramyun is not. simple

Awesome shirt!! Used to live right next to Heirloom Market. Those broths have inspired me to make my own as the weather cools down.

This was a pointless review. There's no reason to judge these dishes or this restaurant by the merits of an instant ramen. As he said, all but one thing is prepared/made in house. This is the equivalent of comparing wagyu to a salisbury steak TV dinner (Of course the former will be better, it's stupid to equate one to the other in any way).

Why use instant ramen noodle like and cheapen those delicious soup? They should use a more organic noodle.

When are you going to make the SPAM episode?

Eat PHOnomenal. Stay hungry my friends!

BOOOORRRRIIINNNGGG

I do not need

This probs started in New York not in Japan nor Korea because it would've been an embarrassment if they did so... New York because people are ignorant to authentic Japanese and korean... although I dont recall such a thing called "korean ramen"

Of course MSG is naturally occurring (such as in tomatoes) and Harold McGee debunked the 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' where people claimed to be affected by the MSG content. Yes too much salt is probably not great for you but MSG is in so many foods simply naturally to give you the umami experience that the fear of it should really be gone by now. Just make it delicious.

I love Ramen

There is no msg in Shin Raymun...

Drinking game, take a sip every time he says 'flavour'

All that to still basically use instant noodles

I still think Pho is the best noodle dish. U always feel amazing after eating it

라면 in korean lamyeon !!! not ramen !!! Use korean words/names/terms 🇰🇷🖖from🇺🇸🎎🤙

He is an imposter I am the original Douglas Kim. #micdrop 😁

I used to make these 20yrs ago living in Korea when there was no ramen shops. I’d make sul lung tang, boil some instant noodle combined them and some soy based toppings like jang jo rim.

Did he just ate 3 bowls of ramen?

Does this Ramel contain no palm oil? Thank you

And then you also have malaysia serving maggie goreng ayam in mamak. Got to eat a fancy take of indomie in indonesia.

How are u gonna go taste ramen but not eat it the right way

Interesting consept👍

Looks good, but Japanese ramen would crush it.

Did this dude just eat 3 bowls if ramen?

Try Ichiran ramen.......

This looks so delicious. I could watch this guy eat for hours.

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Douglas kim was on buzz feeds ramen expert reviews instant ramen...

When I lived in Winnipeg (city of slightly under 1 million in Canada) I used to frequent a ramen joint run by Koreans that had spicy seafood, bulgogi and kimchi ramen on the menu, in addition to more typical Japanese offerings. I don’t know that Korean-style restaurant ramen is entirely unprecedented, especially in North America where the distinction between Japanese and Korean food can often get blurred.

Oh my god WANT

japanese call their noodle soup lamen not ramen.

I wonder if he finished all of it by himself. Probably not.

Nice!!!!