By Amy Scattergood, LA Weekly
Ramen burger. Photo by Keizo Shimamoto
If you missed the previous incarnation of Keizo Shimamoto’s ramen burger pop-up, for lack of a better term (cultural mashup? art installation? rip in the space-time continuum?), you have someplace to be this Sunday, Nov. 10. Specifically the Mitsuwa market in Torrance, where Shimamoto will again be serving up his absurdly popular ramen burgers which, for the uninitiated, are exactly what they sound like.
Back in September, really eons ago from a food trend perspective, Shimamoto brought his ramen burgers to the same market — and about twelve hundred people showed up. Fortunately, they were in a large grocery store, so there was plenty of food to buy after the burgers ran out. Shimamoto’s team estimated that people waited in line for four hours for the 500 burgers that they’d made. Do the math.
This time around, the ramen burger team will be distributing wrist bands at 9 a.m. in anticipation of an 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. run. Which will, at least in theory, give everybody a schedule and, I guess, time to get the morning’s shopping done.
Read the full article by Amy Scattergood from LA Weekly.
