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Akamaru
17 Feb 07
Jodi posted a too-cute picture of Akamaru (Kiba’s canine sidekick in Naruto). For fun, and because it’s Saturday morning and the reference desk is calm, I followed Jodi’s akamaru tag to look at other pictures of the cute little guy. Much to my surprise, I discovered instead something that looked suspiciously like ramen: one from flickr user shiokuma, the other from flickr user rhosoi.
A g-search for akamaru ramen recipe brings back scads of stuff from Naruto fan sites, but I was lucky enough to find near the top this review of a Tokyo restaurant called Ippudo. According to the review, akamaru ramen is a “newer recipe”, made with red seasoning oil. My 12-year-old daughter Claire, the anime nut who has the whole family watching Naruto, tells me that “aka” is Japanese for “red”, and “maru” is a suffix that denotes a masculine name. Is this ramen named after Kiba’s puppy? Hard to say, but I’d like to think so.
Posted by pzed on February 17, 2007 at 1.07pm
Categories: graven images, ninja, recipes
