Yoon Ina, Chi-Young Kim (trans), Transworld. (192p) ISBN: 9781529959857. Biography, read 08/06/26, Paperback ★★★★☆
Ramen Makes Us Complete
I saw this on Publisher News and really loved the idea of it, as we all love ramen, and I’m starting to expand my Korean cookery, so this felt right.
I needed this as I’d been in a bit of a reading slump, this was light and easily digestible but written with a great interest that really showed in every chapter.
Talking about their lifelong love of ramyun gave Yoon Ina a way to talk about her past life and how these incidents were woven through this.
How her father developed her love of raymun, how here friends gently rib her but still rely on her for her knowledge. All these anecdotes were fun yet revealing.
I also loved finding much more about Korean food, lots of names for bits and pieces that I’m going to explore pretty soon.
Not a massive in-depth exploration of raymun in Korean culture but you do get how important it is within it, also not a massively in-depth biography, but a nice little bite into a life.
This was quite satisfying but like with cup noodles you are left wanting a little bit more.
