I have been asked how the tasting event went, and I had avoided answering any messages in the last 24 hours. Although, now that I finally have gotten some sleep after only sleeping 1-4 hours a night for the last 4 days, I can now tell you what I think. From Sunday, I knew I had issues with scaling regardless if I did the math some weeks prior. So without getting into details, I have to consider my efforts on my end to be an epic failure (yaaaay)! What I DO NOT consider a failure are the people who went out of their way to show up (also thank you so very much for the very kind messages), to ESPECIALLY the help from Becca (my right-hand), Tomo, Marvel’ous (congrats on being newly engaged and thank you for flying out from CA), and Lauren (aka Poodle). If it were not for them, the struggle would have been even more real.
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Where I am at now, I could tell you every single little reason and detail on how and why I eff’d up on my end, but instead I will do test batch number 16 in larger scales (30+). Not the small batches like I had been doing for 9-12 people.
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Regardless if this was free, it was meant to kick off an effort to establish what is real Japanese ramen like, and to move forward to my ultimate goal which is an event called @303nightmarket. The night event with yatai like food stalls is meant to promote authentic Asian street food/food from all around the world - the goal would be to expose people to real ramen and underrepresented food such as bun bo hue, Taiwanese beef noodle soup, birria de chivo, aloo tiki, Thai boat noodle soup, baozi, to one of my favorites, tocino, or how I like it as topsilog. So when is this all going to happen? Well I have only been back in Colorado for about 1.5 years after being away for 25 years which means I have to establish connections (you) and investors to help make it come to fruition - if you’ve seen the food, the graphic design, the websites, to the social media, I have been doing it all, and I can’t do it all by myself which is why I am hoping to find the right people to make this all happen. This will come about with your support which is the one thing I love about Colorado “you people.”
🧑🏼👩🏼🦱👨🦱👱🏻♂️👩🏾👩🏼🦰All 30 people have been notified for the tasting, and if you weren’t notified, I apologize because it kills me to not have you all there on Tuesday (or to have a totally open event by now).
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🏝The pic is from a part of LA I have spent a decent amount of time in (who knows this area/street?), and I’m hoping that this isn’t the nearest place for Coloradans to get a taste of legit ramen/tsukemen.
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📱One last bit, for anybody who is willing to read all this. If I happen to somehow have an open space on Tuesday, DM your number, and we’ll text you if we can handle more.
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#ramen #tsukemen #losangeles
