Address: 8055 Armour St #201a, San Diego, CA 92111
Date Visited: 5/29/2017
# of Marathoners: 7 (Alli, Jayzee, Jenne, Laura, Michael, Miko, Sarah P)
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Ramen Marathon Pt. 2: Nishiki Ramen
Ramen Marathon Pt. 1: Hokkaido Ramen Santouka
Address: 4240 Kearny Mesa Rd, San Diego, CA 92111
Date Visited: 5/29/2017
# of Marathoners: 7 (Alli, Jayzee, Jenne, Laura, Michael, Miko, Sarah P)
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Tonkotsu vs. Tonkatsu
There’s a very common mistake English speakers make when ordering at a ramen shop: mixing up the pronunciation of tonkOtsu and tonkAtsu. It wouldn’t be a big deal … if the two didn’t mean totally different foods. Gah, we’ve even seen it misspelled on local restaurant signs!
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Ramen Marathon: Criteria and Scoring
And here we have an explanation of our Ramen Marathon scoring system, along with our printable scoresheet.
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San Diego Ramen Marathon!
We are back, and we have a new project! 1 month + 10 ramen restaurants + 1 official scoresheet.
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Convoy Day 2016: A New Hope
Being as we are terribly behind on new restaurants, for Convoy Day this year we decided to go to all new places (with one or two old standbys for the sake of tradition).
Convoy Conquest: Resurgence
Ah, but the only thing constant on Convoy is change. It’s been two years since we visited our favorite street with any regularity. In this time, we have bid farewell to a good many restaurants, and now in their place, we have a whole line of new spots to try.
And so we resurrect our old quest and begin anew, in order by location from Clairemont Mesa to Aero and back again. We went on a scouting mission to locate target restaurants we have yet to conquer, and here are our findings:
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Green China Grill
Rating: Two thumbs up (Beston: up; Andi: up; Django: sideways)
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Dumpling Inn & Shanghai Saloon
Rating: Two sideways thumbs
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Convoy Day 2015: One Dish Wonders!
This year our rule was that we could only order ONE dish at each restaurant. We could order as many as we wanted, but only that one favorite thing. As you might expect, this was a bit awkward at times…we got some funny looks and some side-eye, and the server at Original Pancake House still remembered me months later! (And believe me, they see a LOT of people.)
Convoy Conquest 