I love ramen. Whenever I eat at a restaurant, I invariably do this – stir in a poached egg if its part of the dish, mix everything together and then pull out some noodles as high as I can:

Yes, nothing better than a big bowl of noodles with pork, egg, seaweed and more!

But how can I replicate a ramen bowl at home? Well, I decided to try – with some wildly different ingredients!

I bought some fresh flat ramen noodles and a container of Miso broth: that will be the base for a seafood-focused ramen noodle dish I will make at home…look at what I’m also adding:

Marinated Octopus!

This is sold as a salad, but it’s just a great combination of octopus and seaweed – but this next ingredient was a bit out of left field:

Dried Preserved Shredded Squid!

This is like shrewd Squid beef jerky – and I love it! I’ve never used it in a soup before so we will see! And of course, the star of my ramen dish will be this:

Salmon Sashimi!

So the ramen was easy, now time to add the seafood-focused ingredients:

So, How Did It Taste?

Well, it tasted great, because the salmon sashimi was still creamy inside, and the octopus was delicious as well….BUT…

I always share my failures, and I absolutely needed to have some chopped green onion on top! This looks bland, the color from the dried squid leeched out into the broth, making everything a soft pink color…so while it really was good, I will never make this mistake again. Next time, green onion plus seaweed and yes, pork as well is what makes a great ramen bowl…and how do I know that?

This is what I’ve eaten at a restaurant when it’s done right:

Now that’s a ramen noddle bowl – and incredible Tempura as well! Because this ramen noodle restaurant in West Los Angeles gives you a great bowl of ramen – then you slide your tray past a terrific array of tempura – take a look!

This is my West LA “go to”! See my whole meal here:

This wasn’t my first time using salmon in a home made ramen experiment:

Remember my seafood “Cup Noodles” experiment?

There was salmon sashimi involved but so much more – see how that went by clicking on my recipe here:

I’ve shared lots of Tempura dishes before, like this one that celebrated a movie that celebrated ramen!

“Tampopo” is a great film and here’s a close up look – one of my “dinner and a movie” choices!

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