Ramen in Japan

Episode 29 of the Ramen in Japan podcast with my very special guest Rei Saito, who runs the KonichiValue Japan website and YouTube channel, where he shares deep knowledge about Japanese stocks, the economy and potential interesting investments in Japan.Today's discussion is a quite unique discussion about the topic of Japanese ramen companies, which are listed on the Tokyo stock exchange. He did an analysis of two interesting ramen corporations, namely Gift Holdings and Hiday Hidaka. I give my insights from the food side of things, he shares his financial analysis insights and together we figure out, if any of them would be a sound investment.Check out Rei's Website and Substack full of Japanese investment information: https://www.konichivalue.com/Also check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@konichivalue

Episode 27 of the Ramen in Japan podcast with my very special guest Preston Landers, who has had a very colorful career in the culinary world, all the way from making ramen at home, creating new ways to make garum, all the way to Michelin Star restaurants. In this episode we talk about his approach to ramen, his clam shio ramen recipe, how he became the world leading authority on garum and his new venture called NAOMI, which is a high end hand soap made for serious home cooks. Go and get yourself 1 or 5 bottles of his hand soap NAOMI right here on https://trynaomi.com/ Check out his his fantastic blog Culinary Crush, where he shares fantastic recipes, secret pro cooking techniques and tons of valuable culinary insights: https://www.culinarycrush.biz/

Episode 25 of the Ramen in Japan podcast with my very special guest Mike Harrison, owner of the ramen restaurants Hana Ramenbar (Park City) and Ramen Ichizu (Salt Lake City). We talk a lot of about his time at the "Rajuku" ramen school in Tokyo and his experience and insights of opening and running his ramen shops in the US. Of course we also talk some great bowls he and I had in Japan recently. In this episode, we talked about the following shops: Ramen Ichizu (Salt Lake City, US) https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ry9a6VfLEWPBNMZB8 Ramen Feel https://maps.app.goo.gl/PZFLFGZp5GuBaMuS6 Ramen Jiro Meguro ⁠https://maps.app.goo.gl/QTmD1xKJNmVgyCyo6 Gonokami Seisakujo ⁠https://maps.app.goo.gl/kXnmXVrJoYgwpZNu9 Chukasoba Mitaka ⁠https://maps.app.goo.gl/N6LpKhpaS1TNj7SS8

Episode 23 of the Ramen in Japan podcast with my very special guest Hans Lienesch, who is also known as the Ramen Rater. At the time of publishing this podcast, he has reviewed nearly 5000 instant ramen varieties. He and his family are currently going through some rough times, so if you could find it in your heart to help him out for all the work he does for the instant ramen world, you can find his donation site over here: https://gofund.me/76eef59a Check out his instant ramen review website: https://www.theramenrater.com/