The Miraculous Encounter of Carbohydrates

I want the person who first thought of pairing rice with ramen to honestly raise their hand.

No, seriously, the person who came up with this combination is a genius.

It was quite a long time ago when I first learned about it.

"Ramen with rice? That doesn't go together, does it?"

That was my reaction when I first heard about it.

After all, ramen is delicious on its own. There's no need to go out of your way to add rice. It seems like it would be packed with calories, and besides, do noodles and rice even go together?

That's how I felt.

I remember a friend I was with at the time urged me, saying, "Just try it, you'll be surprised," and I ordered it out of morbid curiosity, telling myself it was just this once.

But when I combined the soup with the rice, I felt like an electric shock ran through my entire body.

"So goooood..."

The words spilled out naturally. My friend listening next to me said, "Right?"

Ever since then, I've started adding rice to my ramen. Especially with Iekei ramen. I believe this is the best pairing for rice in the entire ramen world.

Now, whenever I see the combination of ramen and rice, a smile naturally spreads across my face. It is a combination that I feel is "delicious" instinctively, without any need for logic.

Even though ramen is a complete dish on its own, why did someone think to add rice to it?

Was it because ramen alone didn't make them full, or did they have a flash of inspiration while eating, thinking, "It would be even better if I added rice"?

Either way, it's just too genius.

What's more, it's carbohydrate on carbohydrate.
It's a combination that feels like it should come with a 'do not mix' warning, yet they went and did it anyway. To put it bluntly, I think it's a crime.

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Now, I think you understand that ramen and rice make the ultimate combination, but do you know the best way to eat it?

First, pour the ramen soup over the rice.
In my case, I divide the rice into parts where I pour the soup and parts where I don't. Kind of like curry.

Next, eat the part of the rice with the soup poured over it just like that.
Of course, it's delicious. The rich ramen soup clings to the rice, and you can feel the joy of their encounter.

Then, eat the part where you didn't pour the soup.
Take the rice into your mouth, then sip the soup. Strangely enough, the taste changes subtly compared to eating the rice with the soup already poured over it. You should definitely try it.

Furthermore, soak the nori seaweed thoroughly in the soup and eat it with the rice.
The flavor of the nori and the richness of the soup start playing together in your mouth, and you can't help but smile. If you have spicy miso or garlic, putting it on the nori and eating it with the rice is also incredibly delicious.

The above is the delicious way to eat ramen and rice. Without the rice, almost none of these steps would work.

I used to think ramen was a complete work of art on its own, but you can see that having rice as a companion multiplies its goodness many times over.

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Of course, this combination isn't very good for your health.

I have gout, so I often visit an internal medicine clinic, and I've heard a patient there being told by their doctor, 'I told you, no rice with your ramen!!'

Yeah, I get it.

It's just so delicious that you end up doing it even though you know you shouldn't. Once you get hooked, ramen by itself just doesn't feel like enough anymore.

Even if you know it's bad for your body. It's just something you can't help.

I'm sure that patient who apologized by saying 'I'm sorry' will end up eating it again.

Ramen and rice.
Whoever brought these two together is truly a sinner.

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I wonder what the reason was for deciding to pair rice with ramen.

Whatever the trigger was, there was someone who first thought, "Let's try this."

And then, someone else accepted it and said, "That's good."

This wonderful cycle leads to discovering new things.

Even things we take for granted were born from someone's ingenuity when you think about it.

I realized that human ideas bring happiness to others.

If you look around, there are many wonderful combinations like ramen and rice.

Not limited to food, ingenuity thought up "for someone else's sake" can be seen everywhere.

This world is overflowing with geniuses.

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