{"id":32543,"date":"2013-10-30T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=32543"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:25:24","slug":"wit-life-252-ivan-ramen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/30\/wit-life-252-ivan-ramen\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #252: Ivan Ramen"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIT Life <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamo<\/a><\/strong><\/em>to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-<\/strong><\/em>03).\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>She starts<\/strong><\/em> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>es some of the interesting tidbits and <\/strong><\/em>t<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>ends along with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I’ve written here, but during that time I’ve traveled from Hawaii to LA to NY and then to Japan for various interpreting gigs.\u00a0 Needless to say, there were many adventures along the way!\u00a0 A particular highlight was getting to interpret for my favorite Japanese director, Hirokazu Kore-eda, when his fabulous new film Like Father Like Son<\/a> (\u305d\u3057\u3066\u7236\u306b\u306a\u308b) debuted at the New York Film Festival last month.\u00a0 It will have its widespread release here in the States early next year, and I will write more about it and meeting the director then…<\/p>\n

It’s always great to be home again, and one of the best parts is being able to enjoy the many events taking place on a daily basis here in th\"20131029_192338\"<\/a>e city. Last night I was able to\u00a0check out one at Strand Books, which hosted the author Ivan Orkin to talk about his experiences running a ramen shop in Tokyo, his new memoir\/cookbook<\/a>, and the opening of his upcoming ramen shop here in NY.\u00a0 I was looking forward to meeting Orkin as he graduated from my high school and got his start with cooking at a Japanese restaurant in my town (that has since gone out of business).\u00a0 After becoming a dishwasher at this restaurant and getting fed by the cooks there in between working, he became a Japanophile.\u00a0 He spent time in Japan during the bubble years, and upon returning to the States he went on to study at the Culinary Institute of America and train with Bobby Flay and at famous restaurants.<\/p>\n

Orkin says that he always knew he wanted to go back to Japan, and after living in Park Slope with his Japanese wife and children he decided to return.\u00a0 Running a ramen shop was not his ultimate game plan, but more like an idea he stumbled upon.\u00a0 He was a house husband for a while, but when it came time to find a job he gave himself the ambitious goal of creating the best ramen in Tokyo.\u00a0 His style is double soup, made of both chicken soup and a dashi blend, and he even makes his own noodles using whole grain flour.\u00a0 Those who have not been to Ivan Ramen in Tokyo will have a chance to try it here in NY, when a branch called Ivan Ramen Slurp Shop opens in midtown’s Gotham West Market in a few weeks.\u00a0 There is also one planned to be opened on the Lower East Side, at a yet to be determined date.<\/p>\n

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WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03).\u00a0 She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations. I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I’ve written here, but during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[70,18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8sT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32543"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32560,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543\/revisions\/32560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}