{"id":30666,"date":"2013-06-21T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T12:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30666"},"modified":"2013-06-21T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T12:25:06","slug":"jet-alum-finds-culinary-success-with-ramen-shop-in-oakland-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/21\/jet-alum-finds-culinary-success-with-ramen-shop-in-oakland-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum finds culinary success with Ramen Shop in Oakland, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaanc.org\">JETAA Northern California<\/a> Vice-President\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?s=Mark+Frey\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Frey<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kumamoto-ken<\/a>, 2002-06)<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for sharing the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oaklandramennite2.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">JETAA Northern California Oakland Ramen Nite<\/a>\u00a0tonight, I found out that <strong>Jerry (&#8220;JJ&#8221;) Jaksich<\/strong>, one of the owners\/chefs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramenshop.com\/\"><strong>Ramen Shop<\/strong><\/a>, was a JET! (possibly <strong>Ebestsu, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3753535&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Hokkaido<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Ramen Shop is getting a ton of buzz in the Bay Area because three alumni of the legendary <strong>Chez Panisse<\/strong> started the restaurant. Wait times for table are often an hour.\u00a0Here are some recent articles about Jerry and Ramen Shop:<\/p>\n<p>Review\/overview of Ramen Shop:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/restaurants\/diningout\/article\/Ramen-Shop-a-hot-spot-in-Oakland-4301369.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/restaurants\/diningout\/article\/Ramen-Shop-a-hot-spot-in-Oakland-4301369.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interview with Jerry about his &#8220;ramen epiphany&#8221; experience in Japan:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/insidescoopsf.sfgate.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/ramen-shop-guys-talk-epic-bowls-japan-experiences-and-local-ramen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/insidescoopsf.sfgate.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/ramen-shop-guys-talk-epic-bowls-japan-experiences-and-local-ramen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newsletter with an interview Jerry did with a local izakaya master in 2007, while on JET I assume (scroll down):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.ebetsu.hokkaido.jp\/kokusai\/files\/Everyday%20Ebetsu%20No.3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.city.ebetsu.hokkaido.jp\/kokusai\/files\/Everyday%20Ebetsu%20No.3.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blog about the Japanese noodle maker they use:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/umamimart.com\/2012\/10\/richmen-ramen-shops-noodle-making-machine-from-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/umamimart.com\/2012\/10\/richmen-ramen-shops-noodle-making-machine-from-japan\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to JETAA Northern California Vice-President\u00a0Mark Frey\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken, 2002-06)\u00a0for sharing the following: At our\u00a0JETAA Northern California Oakland Ramen Nite\u00a0tonight, I found out that Jerry (&#8220;JJ&#8221;) Jaksich, one of the owners\/chefs of Ramen Shop, was a JET! (possibly Ebestsu, Hokkaido) Ramen Shop is getting a ton of buzz in the Bay Area because three alumni of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[305,70,825,304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-outreach","category-food-drink","category-lifeafterjet","category-notable-jet-alums"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7YC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30668,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions\/30668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}