It's a Noodle Bar not a Wine Bar: Nood blogs

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Nood blogs

A work in progress to find, list and comment on all the other nood blogs.

*Ramen Rater.

The main Noodle blog, written by Hans Lienesch since 2002. Still active. Has loads of reviews, and while American based, people do send him noods from the UK. He is very active in promoting his blog, and has managed to get the press interested in his Best and Worse ratings.

Hans Lienesch

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*RamenLovers

Active from 2005 - 2009.
168 posts.
There are four reviewers based in America who review whatever noods they can get their hands on, plus their local noodle bars. They put up plenty of pictures. As there are several of them, opinions will vary, so it's difficult to get a handle on what noods the blog itself favours, but the advantage is that they discuss each other's reviews. They seem to favour Super Noodles over Nissin, mainly due to the noodles. There are a good few Westerners who prefer bland, soft and floury to firm and flavoursome - like preferring white bread to wholemeal, and filtered lager to cask ale. Each to their own.

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*Ramen Butterfly

Active from 2011 to now.
"exploring the realm of gourmet junk food"73 posts on noods. Also comments on other foods. German woman living in America. There's little actual information on texture or flavour of the noods or details on the manufacturer, but she writes in a chatty expansive manner, so you get lots of friendly chit chat, and she takes plenty of pictures. You get a picture of the packet, then the contents, then the finished product in a pretty bowl. OK.

*CheaperThanFood

Active 2008 - 2010. American female working in the communications media. Informative and interesting noodle blog. Lots of pictures, and interesting format where she lists the flavours, packets, amount of salt, etc. She then grades each aspect of the experience, and even lists what music she was listening to. Her first blog explains it all very clearly. I like this blog and this woman. Shame she stopped.

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*Ramenlicious.com

Recipes and history.

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*The Official Ramen Homepage

Looks like mostly recipes.

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Others

Foodstufffinds

NoodleFreak

*CookingWithFrog
*BakeCookLove

Freetique blog -

Studentmunch

Foodifancy.com