{"id":38610,"date":"2015-10-28T05:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T09:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=38610"},"modified":"2015-10-28T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:00:07","slug":"justins-japan-luckyrice-new-york-slurpfest-serves-up-ramen-heaven-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/28\/justins-japan-luckyrice-new-york-slurpfest-serves-up-ramen-heaven-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: LuckyRice New York Slurpfest Serves up Ramen Heaven on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gator Shio Ramen from Crane Ramen of Gainesville, presented at LuckyRice New York Slurpfest 2015. (Justin Tedaldi)<\/p><\/div>\n

By\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>JQ<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0magazine<\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine a place where a variety of regional ramen from around the world is served all in one night. Enter New York Slurpfest 2015<\/a>, which was held Oct. 22 at Astor Center<\/a> in Manhattan, featuring dishes from places as diverse as Florida, Fukuoka, Hawaii and Rhode Island\u2014a ramen lover\u2019s dream event.<\/p>\n

Slurpfest, which is organized by New York-based Asian culinary event producers LuckyRice<\/a>, was first held in 2013 and is expected to continue from the looks of last week\u2019s participants, all slurping ramen with smiling faces.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuckyRice was founded seven years ago to bring awareness to [Asian] culture, and food is the most universal medium,\u201d said LuckyRice founder Danielle Chang<\/a>, who rhapsodized about ramen with guests throughout the evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis simple staple has become this glorified chef cuisine,\u201d she added, noting that the amount of ramen restaurants in Japan alone outnumbers every McDonald\u2019s location on the planet.<\/p>\n

My evening began with an intriguing dish originating from Crane Ramen<\/a> in Gainesville called Gator Shio Ramen, which was made with a surprisingly refreshing salt broth topped with corn, greens, quail egg, and alligator tail chashu.<\/p>\n

For the complete story, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Imagine a place where a variety of regional ramen from around the world is served all in one night. Enter New York Slurpfest 2015, which was held Oct. 22 at Astor Center in Manhattan, featuring dishes from places as diverse as Florida, Fukuoka, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,70,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-food-drink","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-a2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38610","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38613,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38610\/revisions\/38613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}