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Ceviche: tastes better with Crayola® Crayons (Photo: Jeff McNeill)Ceviche is a lemon-marinated raw seafood popular in many Latin American countries, including my own Costa Rica. It came to my attention because most people I know would never eat sashimi (raw fish), but are completely unaware that they are doing so by eating ceviche. “It’s different” is what they say, but it really isn’t!
Today’s post will be an entry for this month’s Japan Blog Matsuri about foreign food, but since foreign food is a relative term (except if cooked on say, the Moon or Mars), I thought it would be fun to relate Japanese and Latin American raw food cuisine! ^^ Keep on reading for more about ceviche!
Note: I don’t particularly endorse or promote eating crayons along with your ceviche and stopped doing so when I was 8 years old, though I sometimes miss their waxy taste (^～^)モグモグ
Update: Ceviche is traditionally said to be “cooked” in lemon (the lemon juice denaturates the proteins), but take into account that the definition of “cook” is quite ambiguous. I quote Wikipedia: the citric acid [...] pickles or “cooks” the fish without heat. However, Wikipedia also lists them on their List of raw fish dishes. I read the English, Spanish, and Japanese (yes, ありますよ！ ^^) article about ceviche, and nobody is too sure. Keep in mind that ceviche varies greatly from country to country, and some preparations do not marinate it for more than 15 minutes, so it’s up to you (I’m open to discussion) ^^; !
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Photo: Richy!There are a few ways to prepare or cook instant ramen. As a Seasoned Gourmet Instant Ramen Chef ™ (SGIRC), my favorite way is firing up the Wok in high temperature, adding water in small amounts and letting the Ramen absorb as much flavor and water as possible. However, when it’s late at night and you don’t feel like cooking, I present you the ultimate way to prepare instant ramen the lazy way.
NOTE: I’m writing an article on everything you need to know about Instant Ramen on Squidoo! (Feedback here or there is appreciated!)
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Say you’re hungry , it’s late at night and you don’t feel like cooking anything. If you walk to the closest convenience store, you’ll probably find some instant ramen. Ranging from $0.1 to $5, depending on where you are, you’ll find that ramen is cheap, very easy to prepare, and fills your stomach just nice.
Have you ever stopped to think of ramen as a growing and prosperous industry? Well, what you ate last night contributes to one of the 85 billion servings of instant noodles consumed every year (yes, you read it right). That’s about 13 servings a year for every human being living on Earth. But of course, not everyone eats the same amount of ramen, right?
Tasty~
