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He said blotter, not "bucket of cocaine".

For some reason when I was a kid I just assumed he had cancer.

Clearly, those French folks don't know how French Lebanon is.

But if I recall Japanese schools (and if I'm wrong someone please correct me) will often times omit what they did in the Philippines and in places like Nanking. I'm sure not everyone does and undoubtedly someone here went to school in Japan and learned everything, but I have heard quite a bit of testimony saying that they do "sweep it under the rug" and that is undeniably horrible. People in Japan were so fervent at the time that what they were doing was perfectly alright because they were the chosen people, etc., etc. That sort of extremism and elitism needs to be apologized for and lambasted so the mentality completely disappears.

Also, I'm fairly certain vylandra was apologizing in place of the formal apology that Japan has yet to make for some of the crimes during the war. Not personally apologizing.

Wanted to stop in and say thanks for creating a great shopping guide! When I visit my local asian markets I used to try and gauge quality blindly, but finding your site (through Serious Eats) was so helpful and now I don't end up buying some of the funky nightmares that exist in the instant noodle world. There's this one sweet potato noodle in a purple package from Indonesia (I think) I know you reviewed once and gave it a 1/5 or something like that. It was somehow flavorless, but too spicy and oily and the noodles were atrocious (I bought them previous to finding your site).

My personal favs are some of Wu Mu's offerings (the stewed pork flavor is pretty amazing) and of course Shin Ramyun Black is a classic.

I'm slowly getting my friends to move away from the standard grocery store cup noodle and Maruchan stuff. There's so much great stuff to try out there and its really not all that much more expensive!

Thanks!