Awards, 5 facts about me and the greatest Ramen restaurant of all time.

Awards from Superwoolu!!! Every time I read this girl's blog, I end up breaking into fits of giggles. For some reason in my (obviously) flawed mind, I keep thinking we've got a lot of similarities, from childhood experiences with Yes! magazine to taste in shoes xD

So as a condition to accepting these awards, I'm suppose to share 5 random facts about myself. Stop feeding my vanity. Next thing you know I'll have a FormSpring account.

1. I am terrified of clowns. I can sort of restrain myself from freaking out too much now that I'm an adult, but heaven forbid if one just pops out at me suddenly. Even Ronald McDonald creeps me out. Blame it on my parents using Chinese opera masks to scare me to sleep as a child. Yeah, I have no idea why they did that T.T

2. I cannot stand it when people butcher the English language. I refuse to acknowledge that "alright" is a word and that a sentence can start with "because". I cannot punctuate to save my life but I am obsessed with spelling and grammar.

3. I can speak fluent Dutch. I have no idea why. I spent 5 years learning French, lived in France and yet all I can say is "I'd like a ham and cheese sandwich please". I didn't even intentionally learn Dutch and yet I can speak, read and understand it with an 80% proficiency. Deep down I'm just a barbarian.

4. I have a "thing" for Dr. Gregory House. The bf and I have these conversations where he does Horatio Caine one liners ("We never close. *puts sunglasses on*") and I do House one liners ("Who's here with a runny nose? it's a cold! it will get better. Go home."). Omg we have an odd relationship -___-

5. I don't eat pork. Yeah, the moment Chinese people hear this, they're all like "why??!!!". I grew up in a largely Jewish neighbourhood, most of my friends were Jewish, and Pesach was practically a school holiday.  As a result I grew up not eating pork. The smell and taste of pork actually makes me want to throw up. My parents also do not eat pork. The only way I'll ingest anything pork related is if it's pork bones used to make soup xD. I've had a lot of people aggressively tell me that if I'm not Muslim then I must eat pork, I introduce them to my middle finger.

I pass these awards onto:
Dao
Sheila
Nat, and
Daituf

Onto food!
We'd heard that this absolutely amazing ramen house had recently opened up on Robson and we of course had to check it out to see if it lived up to all the hype.

Hokkaido Ramen Santouka

(604) 681-8121

1690 Robson St

Vancouver, BC V6G
www.santouka.co.jp

 

The bf had the "Limited Quantity" Toroniku Shoyu Ramen (pork cheeks).

My Shiro ramen.

Can you tell I'm happy?

Verdict: Kintaro? who's Kintaro? This place has THE BEST ramen we've ever had in anywhere! Between the two of us that includes...over 10 countries!
I don't even eat pork and I still drank ALL the soup! It was so rich and flavourful, and the noodles were perfect! Omg looking at these photos make me wanna go back!
Apparently they're part of a very famous international chain and this branch is the first one to open in Canada.
Sheila and Chyi, when you girls get here I am SO bringing you here!