We are ramenized!
The first time I had pizza my mom was the chef and the pizza came from the freezer. That was in the 70s when frozen food really tasted like frozen food. This incident formed my perception for a long time until our family traveled to Italy where I had my second pizza. After I watched the maestro create this little piece of art, it was served from a fiery wood burning oven. It was one of the best things I ever ate, I can still remember it.
Something similar happened again years later. Before I came to New York, I only had 99c ramen from a bag, the stuff you eat when you are a poor student and you spent your last money on books (um, ok beer). When I came to the city I had my first “real” ramen in a Japanese restaurant and I couldn’t believe how good it was. Since then I developed a passion for ramen which grows everytime we find a new place or try an new variation.
Now, there are many ramen places in New York City, most of them in the East Village, some in Midtown and a few more elsewhere in Manhattan and the boroughs. It’s hard to keep track of where you went and how it was. Sure, there is Yelp and we even have an account and write reviews every now and then. But we thought, how cool would it be if there was just one place to go to read everything about ramen in New York? And that’s what Ramenized.com is for – our central ramen repository! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.