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LinkPizza posted...

I dont think thats what hes saying. I do understand whats he trying to say. I can understand both sides of the argument. I just think ramen is ramen. But I do know what hes trying to say. I cant understand how anyone wouldnt, even if you dont agree. But I will also say this topic either sounds like it was bait or written poorly. The reasons I say this is because you never specified actually ramen or the cheaper stuff you can get here. Also, if egg is as common as most people are making it sound, I probably wouldve asked who didnt. There were probably a few other reasons. And I could be wrong. But thats what it seems like. Like this topic was used to make people argue about original ramen and the cheap stuff we have here...

I kinda grasp what Golden Road is trying to say here as well. I've read an article before about fine dining Chinese food and the author mentioned it being near impossible to have such a restaurant in a neighborhood flooded with other Chinese restaurants. It didn't matter if said restaurant used the best ingredients and whatnot, folks are going to scoff at paying more than $10-15 for a plate of fried rice.

I briefly talked about the article with other Chinese friends and it was brought up that it really depends on who the cliente are naturally. Opening up said restaurant in Beverly Hills for example would probably succeed more so than a Chinese community.

While watching Netflix Chef series one of the episode was of Enrique Olvera and his restaurant Pujol in Mexico City that offered fine dining Mexican food. Before starting up his restaurant, he mentioned how when most people think of fine dining they think of French or Italian whereas with Mexican most think of cheap food. So it was a struggle for him to offer Mexican food in a fine dining environment.

From this perspective, I can kinda see how Golden Road cannot/refuse to accept ramen as anything but a cheap quick-n-easy meal. I don't doubt there are high end fried rice dishes out there but having been raised eating it throughout my childhood life and even now as an adult, paying the price for the high end version of it would be tough for me to swallow.
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