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As for the gluten, I'm not gluten free, but a lot of people are for a lot of reasons and I know that having a quick option is nice.

I have not seen these in stores around here but you can buy them online from the link above. If you guys try it please leave a comment about it and let me know how you like it.

Out of that list, here are my choices:

1) Maruchan. Ubiquitous and cheap, I love to have this on hand. I'm a simple man, I like beef and shrimp flavor. Add some red pepper flakes to give it some spice. This is not the best on the list, but its so cheap and easy to find, I'll list it first.

2) Nong Shim Bowl - I really like this one. It's complex enough that you don't need to do anything to it. I love the spicy broth in this one too, enough to almost make you cough when you sip it, which is perfect.

3. Nong Shim Black - I like the bowl, I love the black. The broth here is very rich and the vegetables are actually large enough to distinguish and tasty. This is worth the extra price to treat yourself.

I first heard about ramen burgers a couple weeks ago and I'll admit I was curious. Finally this week, they arrived in my town, where foodie hipsters are slowly bringing in new and interesting foods mostly via local food trucks. If you've not heard of this before, basically a ramen burger is a beef hamburger that uses cooked and then grilled ramen as a bun. The sauce adds the umami and the green onion, crunch and color.

Unfortunately, I've not had a chance to have one of these yet, and so if you have, I'd love to hear your opinion on it. Was it good or just hype?

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In 2005, Nissin Foods developed instant noodles for astronauts, called Space Ram. The noodles come in bite-size bundles coated in egg whites to hold them together in a low-gravity environment. The soup was also made thicker to prevent spattering that could spread inside the space vessel. The flavor is quite strong because a person’s sense of taste is dulled in space. The starch content of the flour for the noodles was also adjusted so that the noodles could be cooked with hot, 70°C water; this was necessary because  water cannot boil in the space shuttle due to the low air pressure.

It’s not clear from the story if “Space Ram” has been used before in space, does anyone know?

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In a bowl of ramen, the long, curly noodles are made from wheat, which has the structure-giving gluten that pho's rice noodles do not. Ramen stock is darker, richer and cloudy, often made from pork bones cooked at a rolling boil, whereas the base for pho is traditionally made from beef and scented with star anise, cinnamon and charred ginger.

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