RAMEN PSA
GOOD AFTERNOON. I have feels about ramen.
I threw a ramen party in the dorm this weekend and made lots of ramen and slow cooked pork belly and made fish-based broth. It was awesome. There were a few people I found rather rude, since they did not tell me their friends were vegetarian until shortly before the meal (maybe they didn't know?). I don't think they really understood, and someone who knows better should correct me if I'm wrong, but here goes:
Ramen broth is traditionally meat-based, often pork, sometimes chicken or fish. I'd be willing to put money on the fact that if you went to a ramen restaurant, and they did not explicitly label it on the menu as vegetarian, it isn't. (Also don't go to Wagamama, Wagamama has shitty broth IMO.)
Okay, so long as everyone is sort of aware of that. Also, I know it's their choice and I do respect their dietary choices, would never force them to eat meat or exclude them from any ramen parties. But it sort of made me sad that they wanted to eat at the ramen party but not eat any of the things that I consider to actually make it good ramen (probably didn't help that I was a bit miffed about the late notice). But it worked out, I whipped up a veggie broth as best I could, they got to eat ramen, and I got a big chunk of slow-cooked pork belly. (Somewhat related: dutch ovens were a fantastic invention).
