What are you Eating/Drinking?

[TB]

I tried Hormel chili a while back on a whim and it was surprisingly good. Not in a "I expected it to make my stomach turn inside-out" way, but in a "Holy 🤬 this is good" kind of way.

This is not that.

 

[RCKakashi14]

Tonkotsu Ramen - Shoyu broth.

 

[Touring Mars]

Between my broken taste buds (supertaster) and my wife's gluten intolerance, we're not big beer drinkers but we do both like ciders.

Funnily enough, I just saw a local magazine called 'Pints of View' and it names a classic old pub called "The Jolly Judge" as Edinburgh's Cider Pub of the Year. The pub is in a close just off The Royal Mile, approx 200 yds/2 mins from where you are staying (I think). It was actually stop #1 on my list of Edinburgh pubs to visit when @Sage was here, but annoyingly it was closed! That said, we hardly had enough time to visit the remainder of the pubs on my list - a pub crawl in Edinburgh is fun whether you are drinking anything or not, as it is a beautiful city with lots of great venues.

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Tonkotsu Ramen - Shoyu broth.

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I'm a big fan of Ramen, but it is expensive and not always that good here. I had Ramen in Japan several times, and it was amazing - but I think that has set an impossible standard to replicate here.

I actually got off the Shinkansen in Yokohama just to pull off the ultimate work practical joke and visit the Ramen Museum there, as at the time I was working on Raman spectroscopy - I pretended I'd gone all the way to Japan for a Raman conference, only to discover it was a Ramen conference...