Pho is the Goddess' way of telling you you should be home making ramen for 10 cents instead and spending the extra on buying fresh veggies.

Noodles, regardless of the type, outside of your own kitchen is a waste of time and money. That is a fact.

Will, you have my sincere pity if you think fresh vegetables is all the difference between 10-cent instant ramen and really good noodles.

Y'all are crazy. Noodles are great, and Top Ramen isn't the same thing.

But I don't see how this is possible, since we know for a fact that the Press Condos destroyed the Pike/Pine area, and all hope of funkiness or cheap pleasures is gone forever in the wasteland that replaced it.

I heard they were delayed by slow contractors and are waiting until after the holidays to open.

Wow. That building they're moving into looks like it could be right out of Asia. Good to see that kind of thing still exists on Pike St.

dude. the id is not that far away from capitol hill.

ps: canton wonton house on weller has all the noodles you could ever need.

I walked from Cap Hill down to Samurai Noodle the other day. It's a long walk, but I'm unemployed, so it was perfect -- I was pretty damn hungry by the time I got there, and I was pretty damn happy with the ramen. I went to Japan for the first time in April, and I fell in love with ramen... it's so utterly unlike 10-cent "ramen noodles". Samurai ramen is pretty good, and I'm excited to hope that Boom Noodle might be twice as good... three times as good... OPEN IT UP NOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!

@3 - of course not. I add curry and tofu from PCC as well.

Yum!

I'm generally not a fan of chain restaurants, but when I spotted the signage for Boom Noodle the other day I was hoping that it might be a total rip-off of Wagamama, and just as good.

WAGAMAMA!!! (Jubilation touches himself...)

Matthew over at Roots and Grubs (food blog) broke this news to me months ago, but I'd forgotten. Noodles are good, will this place have fancy buckwheat noodles and stuff? I would love to see a gluten-free noodle option.

PS I was under-wowed by Aoki's udon, but it was better than that other shit place on Broadway, the one under Laughing Buddha.

All I can say is Tokyo, here we come. I intend to feast well while we're there.

samurai is opening up on the ave in the u district. i'm thrilled.

The Blue C Sushi folks hold the Boom business license. Pushbutton ordering and all. Third Blue C location opening soon at Alderwood Mall.

They got their Boom chef from a high-end catering company and sent him to Japan, etc. This will be their first Boom location. Probably at Bellevue Square next year.

I can see why that Globe fella figured it was time to get the hell out.

Oh dear, really? Blue C is the worst sushi restaurant in the universe. The one in U Village is NASTY -- terrible selection, stale old half-rotten fish, bad rice, incompetent chefs who don't know how to do their job properly. The place smells bad.

If they don't have a giant picture of John Madden on their sign I'll eat there without tipping which is far worse than never eating there from what I understand.

Stupid fucking name. Why do you need a stupid fucking name to step to the noodle game.

(Rap hook in honor of The Program...kill me now with 5 days of Pho Shizzle Mah Nizzle)

Jesus Christ. Can't you just catch a 49 or something? There's a bunch of good noodle places on the Ave. Best of Bento has a great udon.

I've yet to find a (non soup) noodle dish in Seattle that I can't make better at home.

Threre's something about Pho broth hat's properly done that organic beef broth from the grocery cannot match.

Ramen is not like dried, ready made ramen. I just hope this chef they sent to Tokyo learned something because it's sad how hard it is to find ramen in this country. In Japan, they have a chain (which obviously isn't even as good as the family owned ramen shops that have home-made noodles with family recipes in every neighborhood so you can find it at 2am after a night out; see the movie Tampopo) which is called Ramen University. And it's so good. Please tear down half the teriyaki and thai restaurants here (which mostly aren't any good) and put up even mediocre ramen. Don't f*ck this up, BlueC!

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Phew! Just ate at Boom on their opening night. A huge relief on many counts an in many ways just excellent. I had the Tokyo Ramen. Super nice broth, but my server talked me into trying their edamame puree which was SWEET. You hardly notice it but they put this green dab of Yuzu pepper on the side which is like nothing I have tried before. Gotta go buy me some down in the ID.

Finally...good Japanese noodles close to home!

Ate there for lunch today. Good yakisoba noodles, but $10 is too expensive for daily lunching (for my budget anyway). A friend had the Udon, and for a buck cheaper it looked like the better plate.