World's smallest ramen bowl

by cynthia yoo | May 29, 2008 at 03:25 pm

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Great Jehoshaphat!

Ingenius Japanese scientists have created the world's smallest ramen bowl that can only be seen through a microscope.

Mechanical engineering professor Masayuki Nakao said Thursday that he and his students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter of 1/25,000 of an inch.
The project was aimed at developing nanotube-processing technology.

Nakao said the Japanese-style ramen bowl was carved out of microscopic nanotubes.

Nanotubes are tube-shaped pieces of carbon, measuring about 1/10,000 of the thickness of a human hair.

The ramen bowl experiment included a string of "noodles" that measured 1/12,500 of an inch in length.

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Barry ORegan

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at 15:34 on May 29th, 2008

cynthia yoo, I like this story. It's good stuff. I am addicted to the noodles.

One thing Cynthia that caught my eye to this story was the title, though I did not have my glasses on and thought the title was "World's smallest ramen bowel"of course once I put on my glasses, I read it correctly. For a second I thought you lost your mind Cynthia. hahaha

nukemdomis

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at 20:12 on May 29th, 2008

Good luck getting nano Ramen out of the package and into the bowl.

I like this story. It's good stuff.

sanjuro62pt1

at 23:14 on May 29th, 2008

One of the best pork ramen bowls I've ever had. This walk-in ramen shop is in Shibuya.

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lazysundae

at 03:27 on May 30th, 2008

RaiRaiKen in the East Village (NYC) is great for a basic bowl of ramen. The atmosphere is the most authentic, with just a long wooden counter that seats about 12 people.

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HonMun

at 04:04 on May 30th, 2008

Taken as a product shot for a friend of mine. Nice hot ramen is great on a cold evening

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alexkane

at 06:39 on May 30th, 2008

This is the first time I've had homemade ramen, and it was delicious. The chef made enough for 25 bowls. The soup was tonkotsu, deep flavor but not too oily (Ippudo is good but it's a heavy broth). Very simple taste, I ate two bowls but could have probably eaten a couple more because the soup doesn't really weigh you down much.

Everything was homemade. He said that the soup took 3 days to make, in 8 hour shifts. The noodles took 4 hours and were the most difficult because unlike the soup base which can be left alone to simmer, the noodles need constant attention while you're making them.

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meemosa

at 07:20 on May 30th, 2008

taken at Ken's Ramen in Allston, MA

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Jippolito

at 08:13 on May 30th, 2008

Slurping noodles at the Ramen Museum in Yokohama, Japan.

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happyfingers

at 09:21 on May 30th, 2008

I was on holiday in Hokkaido, and one of the attractions is to have a ramen meal at one of the streets in Sapporo, where many ramen shops are located. The shops were traditional and it was a good experience to be eating in there and lunching on piping hot ramen from the cold. This is a bowl of seafood ramen, where the noodles are thick, and the miso/shoyu soup is rich and savoury. It contains all the traditional ingredients like beansprouts, seaweed, corn, 'cha siew' slices, bamboo shoot pickles, etc. I considered it to be a satisfying meal as it was flavourful, but i would prefer my noodles thinner =)

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alice formica

at 11:19 on May 30th, 2008

Ramen from a hole-in-the-wall place in Kyoto.

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J. Gabriel

at 11:50 on May 30th, 2008

First time I ate ramen, it was taken in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.

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Jitterro

at 13:17 on May 30th, 2008

Daikoku Ramen from Daikokuya in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

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Sam Rohn - Location Scout

at 13:43 on May 30th, 2008

it was delicious, miso ramen on aoyama-dori -

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fenger8

at 15:30 on May 30th, 2008

Beautiful and huge (you can see it via the relative size to my average sized hand) bowl of udon in a neighborhood Udon house in Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Japan

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diamondhuynh

at 11:53 on May 31st, 2008

One of the best simple and easy cold day comfort foods ever! Teriyaki beef ramen noodle soup with poached eggs and snow peas. Yum.

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1800pp51rooroo

at 08:14 on June 2nd, 2008

Not the worlds smallest bowl, but definitely a tasty bowl of ramen. This was taken at Santa Ramen in San Mateo. For those of you that are familiar, this one was taken at their old location on South B St.

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Quasimime

at 14:13 on June 2nd, 2008

Deelish HK style breakfast. I wouldn't normally think of adding a fried egg nor Spam slices to my ramen, but did enjoy this one morning while on vacation. Hearty, salty and well, very "HK".

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