Ramen at Home
My ramen eating habits have evolved over the years, starting with my family dubbing Sapporo Ichiban brand ramen as “saimin” and eating it almost daily for my entire childhood. Occasionally, my Oahu cousins would come to visit Grandma and I’d see them eating S&S Saimin, which was their noodle of choice. Sometimes I’d order the saimin at Satsuki in downtown Hilo when my parents took the whole Kodani Florist crew there to eat a late-night dinner. That was probably the closest I ever came to the “real” Japanese ramen that I have regular access to today. Now that I live on Oahu, where ramen shops are …
