#ivan ramen

[oca-rinn-a]

-*assorted nyc sights*-

hydrangeas // lillies // jade

apocalyptic bbt shop // infograph of greenhouse threat

lava cake // crepe board // double mushi

[themanhattanfoodproject]

Ivan Orkin’s roasted garlic mazemen and the signature Ivan Ramen found at Ivan Ramen Slurp Shop.

[theafternoonmoon]

Shoyu ramen from Ivan Ramen at the Gotham West Market.

[ramen-are-the-real-men]

Ivan Ramen

[thetasteofthesoul]

Per chiunque abbia visto Chef's Table 3. Ho guardato meno di mezz'ora fa la puntata su Ivan Ramen, per poi scoprire che era praticamente a 15 min dal mio albergo. Una cosa pazzesca, buonissimo!! Ora sono qui in Hells Kitchen, satolla e felice 😊

[back-of-the-bus]

My friend and I had dinner at Ivan Ramen last night. The owner is profiled on S3 E4 of "Chef's Table". I had the vegetarian ramen and she had something spicy with pork. It was good but I was a tad disappointed.

[thingsiateingeneral]

Maybe you read the first ever issue of Lucky Peach, the late, great food quarterly created by Momofuku chef/owner David Chang and writer Peter Meehan in 2011 and found out about Ivan Orkin and Ivan Ramen that way.

That first issue (174 pages!) was devoted entirely to ramen and New York Times media critic David Carr (another late, great) wrote of it: “Lucky Peach is not only something to behold, it is also something to hold, a reminder of print's true wingspan.” 

If we thought things were bad for print in 2011, they are much worse now. Lucky Peach folded in 2017. I didn’t manage to hang on to any of my issues thanks all of the moving I did in the first half of my twenties, but it was a good magazine and now that first issue is for sale on Amazon for $225.

But maybe you didn’t read Lucky Peach! Maybe you first learned of Ivan Orkin and Ivan Ramen in 2015 from Season 1, Episode 11 of Anthony Bourdain’s (yet another late, great) show “The Mind of a Chef.”

Or maybe you saw Ivan’s 2017 “Chef’s Table” episode on Netflix?

In any case, what started as Jewish guy from Long Island making ramen with rye flour noodles in Japan (successfully - which is unheard of) has now turned into a small empire. There are two Ivan Ramen slurp shops in New York.

I ate the Tokyo Shio Ramen (sea salts, dashi + chicken broth, pork belly, soft egg, roasted tomato, rye noodles) for dinner back in December. Yes, it was good. What is more good is that now you can get good ramen most places in the U.S., which was very much not the case when the first issue of Lucky Peach came out in 2011.

[mechadress]

Ivan Ramen