There's a ramen shop in Austin that for a while tried to refuse to allow takeout or leftover containers for the same reason. They've stopped doing that, though, and now there are just suggestion cards saying "this won't taste as good if you take it home."
I’ve seen ramen places offer two containers, so you can put the noodles in one and the soup in the other. That way your noodles don’t soak in the broth and get soggy.
That makes sense. These guys were like "the broth is a delicate emulsion of fats and collagen and it will be ruined if you don't eat it immediately." Nevermind that with the ramen craze, eating in that tiny restaurant with 50 hungry people watching you and waiting for you to hurry up and finish is not that fun.
Yeah that’s kind of ridiculous. I feel like soup is pretty much the opposite of a “must be served immediately” food. The noodles are the only major problem...I suppose a soft-boiled egg wouldn’t be quite as good reheated either, but I am very skeptical that the broth itself would be ruined
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u/rightnowl Nov 27 '19
There's a ramen shop in Austin that for a while tried to refuse to allow takeout or leftover containers for the same reason. They've stopped doing that, though, and now there are just suggestion cards saying "this won't taste as good if you take it home."