re: The State of Ramen

An odd piece (like much of Chang's writing)....he cares enough about ramen to obsess, but now it's become too easy for others to gather knowledge about the stuff, so it's "over"? He isn't an evangelist recruiting others to the church of ramen, he sounds more like a diva who now resents the audience he worked to create.

But I liked the Momofuku cookbook, and one day I'll get off my azz and concoct a LA version of his XO sauce (it uses dried scallops & yunnan ham, and I think an all-dried-shrimp and andouille version would kill).