{"id":11391,"date":"2013-07-05T07:38:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=11391"},"modified":"2013-07-02T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T03:12:51","slug":"ramen-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/ramen-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramen in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11392\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0065RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11392\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0065RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea-502x800.jpg\" alt=\"honki honnki ramen gwangju south korea\" width=\"502\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0065RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea-502x800.jpg 502w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0065RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea-157x250.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honkki Japanese Restaurant menu (near back gate of Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most Korean restaurants aren&#8217;t set up for single, foreign travelers. The menus are only in Korean, the portion sizes (and prices) are for two to four people ordering one thing, and the tables are set up for parties of four (or less frequently parties of two). Some places even turn you away if you come in by yourself. One workaround if you can read Japanese is to patronize Japanese restaurants in Korea. Although the employees won&#8217;t likely be able to speak English or Japanese, the two that I have been to have menus in both Korean and Japanese so at least I know what I&#8217;m ordering.<\/p>\n<p>On this day I went with the Miso Ramen (\u307f\u305d\u3089\uff5e\u3081\u3093).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0064RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0064RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea-800x622.jpg\" alt=\"honkki japanese food cnu honki honnki ramen gwangju south korea\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0064RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea-800x622.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0064RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea-250x194.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_0064RAW-honki-honnki-ramen-gwangju-south-korea.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was good, one of the better bowls of <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/ramen\/>ramen<\/a> I&#8217;ve had outside Japan. The half a hard-boiled egg was a little different than how eggs are usually served in Japanese Ramen, but other than that it seemed pretty authentic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Korean restaurants aren&#8217;t set up for single, foreign travelers. The menus are only in Korean, the portion sizes (and prices) are for two to four people ordering one thing, and the tables are set up for parties of four (or less frequently parties of two). Some places even turn you away if you come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,436],"tags":[102,457,446,429,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}