RAMEN-YA HIRO
A TASTE OF HOME, AT A DIFERENT ONE
When you have lived somewhere as a child there are many things you don’t remember; two years became a blur of fuzzy memories in the distance, that just came back occasionally and unannounced. That is what happened the first time I ate at Ramen-ya Hiro.
Quedarà exagerat, però recordo perfectament el moment de probar el primer gyoza de veritat, potser feia 5 anys que tornàvem a ser a Barcelona i el gust va activar la memòria. Vam estar d’acord; si tancàvem els ulls érem a dos cantonades del pis de Shibuya-ku. Afegint-hi molts divendres i després molts sopars, i en total, moltes converses; en aquestes parets hi ha un trosset d’història nusful.
Since then, it has become not only the best form of “comfort food” but also a sort of sanctuary of another piece of home. A peculiarity of this particular “traditional fast food” restaurant is that the reduced number of tables in proportion to the quality of the food make a long line out on the street. The cue in a way becomes part of the ritual, meeting up with someone, having a beer while you wait in line and catching up on life.
For these reasons, when we had to choose a recipe to draw for the intensive course of Food Takes Command, I had no doubt.
The objective was to understand how food shapes the city and exemplify it through a recipe of our choice. Our decision was Ramen, and specifically Hiro’s, for multiple reasons.
As a consequence we recognized the three urban scenarios. The supermarket express lunch, boiling water included, the ramen stall food festival, and Ramen-ya Hiro’s waiting line.
URBAN SCALE
DISH SCALE
In the second part we payed attention to the cooking process of each ingredient in different scenarios. Ramen-ya Hiro’s kitchen served as the restaurant, to which we added a noodle stall and the home version of the instant format.
HUMAN SCALE
The first part was a comparison between traditional ramen and instant ramen (not entirely shown here) in which we researched the ingredients and manufacturing process of its three ingredients, broth, toppings and noodles.
ETSAV
JAPÓ
Un trocet de historia Nusful
REFLEXIONS
D'UN CONFINAMENT
As a last part, we studied Ramen-Ya Hiro’s area of influence; where the people in line came form; and what other asian food services are available in the area.
CITY IMPACT
EL BITXO
