Shoki Ramen House – Tan Tan Men

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Tan Tan Men Ramen

I spent 3 weeks in Japan and gained 10 pounds because the amount of gorging  I was doing. (I still haven’t lost all the weight, but that’s no important) I spent a good amount of time in Japan eating so many different delights like Butter Yaki, Okinawan Soba, and sushi galore. It was truly and awesome time, but came to an end and once it came to an end I was stuck with the flavors of Japan still on my tastebuds. I really missed the flavor!

This put me on a quest to find some authentic Japanese flavor and this quest has lead me to Shoki Ramen House located 1201 R Street Sacramento, Ca. This place is relatively small, but is in an interesting part of downtown.

I lead to try the most popular order in hopes that it would quench my hunger for real Japanese cuisine. I ordered the “Tan Tan Men“.

Large Ten Ten Men Ramen Shoki

Tan Tan Men:

The broth was savory with a slight spice and a strong hint of sesame oil, but was a bit salty and after a while the sesame oil became a bit overwhelming.

The noodles were firm and thick and carried the flavor of the broth perfectly to your tastebuds.

Bamboo shoots were cooked enough to maintain a sort of crunch to give the ramen a interesting texture.

The meat topping was flavorful with a hint of spice with the texture of ground beef. This is isn’t typically the type of texture that I would imagine when eating ramen.

Overal the meal was great with the atmosphere, pricing, service, and it also somewhat subsided my apetite for Japanese food, but I’m still on the quest for good ramen and I will be returning to Shoki to review another bowl.

Drinking Coke Zero Is Not A Steady Diet?

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The term “diet” makes people think “temporary.” If you offer some one a cheeseburger and they respond by saying, “No thanks, I’m on a diet,” don’t you automatically assume that they are trying to lose weight now, but afterwards… they’ll go back to eating whatever the heck they want.

Now if you offer some one a cheeseburger and they respond by saying, “No thanks, I’m trying to change my behavior,” wouldn’t you take that statement more seriously? Why is that? Well it’s because “diets” are predominantly the solution to for people who are unhappy with their appearance, and appearances are ultimately shallow and temporary. However, to diabetics, the term “diet” means survival and is in no way a temporary issue to them.

So with that said, diets (for the most part, excluding cases like gestational diabetes) should be a permanent change. To further hit this point home, the number one reasons diets fail is because they become temporary changes. An overweight person shouldn’t ever think of a diet as a temporary solution anyway. Point made? I hope so, because I wanted to actually write about the diets themselves.

Since diets are a long term change to one’s lifestyle, it would be wise to be phase in a diet incrementally. Now when I was in the army, they taught me the “K.I.S.S.” acronym: Keep It Simple… Stupid! And since then, I’ve observed that it’s the dumb people who complicate things.

So here it is, simply put: a diet should be an incremental process of adding healthier habits and also subtracting the detrimental ones. You can do this at the same time, or one after another. Here’s an example to start with:
Add one apple;
Subtract one soda;
Then set a length of time. You can start by adding one apple per week and then move to one apple per day. You can cut down to one soda per week and then to no sodas per day.
Take the stairs once a week, then take the stairs once a day. And then so on and so on… you set your own pace.

This way, it becomes easy to tell when you’re back sliding. Have you ever forgot to do something and your whole day felt “out of sync?” For a lot of people, it’s their morning coffee. Well since this diet is a long term incremental lifestyle change, then you’re going to get that same “out of sync” feeling when you back slide. When you’ve eventually get to the point where you’ve cut down fast food to once a month, and then you back slide by eating burgers twice in one week… well you’re body is definitely going to make you regret it.

Simple? Well that’s how it should be; “Add one good, subtract one bad.”

P.S. I could have made this a long winded 500 pages and charge you $29.99 to read it, but then I’d be afraid of my old drill sergeant calling me up and screaming “KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!!!”