Japanese ramen originated from Chinese of la mian. The dish is a bowl of noodles in a soup or broth. Ramen is a very popular fast food in Japan and has moved it's way to America. Many people classify ramen as Chinese food because it is of Asian origins. Although this is not the case it is still pretty good.
The Recipe
Ingredients--1 Serving of Ramen Noodles--1 Can of Broth (Chicken, Beef, Vegetable, ETC)--5 Shiitake Mushrooms--2 Green Onions--2 Cloves of Minced Garlic--1 Tablespoon of Minced Ginger--1 Tablespoon of Soy Sauce--1/4 Cup of Teriyaki Sauce--1 Pork Chop or Breast of Chicken
Preparation
First you want to prepare all your vegetables into their correct sizes. Cut them and keep them separated in bowls. The mushrooms can be put in whole if they aren't too big but otherwise you want to tear them in half. Green onions should be 1/4 inch thick, cut on the bias or diagonally would make them look nice. Mince the garlic and ginger. These can be kept together. Cut the pork chop or chicken breast into thin strips and soak in the teriyaki sauce.
Cooking
Start cooking the noodles first. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add 2 teaspoons of salt to the water. Place the noodles in the water. If you made fresh noodles give them a stir to keep them separated. If you used store bough then let them soften as they will be dry and brittle.
Start another pan on the stove and heat to medium high heat. Pour in the broth, garlic and ginger. Once you have done this, check the noodles. Try to separate them out with a fork or chop sticks so they are loose. Total cooking time should be about 5-10 minutes for the noodles.
Once the broth is close to a boil or at a boil, reduce the heat to just under boiling and add the shiitake mushrooms, green onions and sliced meat. Add 1 tablespoon of the left over teriyaki sauce. Add the tablespoon of soy sauce as well and keep this just under a boil until the meat is cooked all the way through. This should only take 3 or 4 minutes if you sliced your meat thin.
Putting It All Together
Once the noodles are cooked pull them out of the pot with either a fork or a pasta spoon. Add them directly to the soup. Once all the noodles are added to the soup turn off the heat to the soup and get any garnishes ready. Sesame seeds or boiled eggs cut length wise make great garnishes. Pour the soup into a bowl being careful not to spill any. Add the garnishes and enjoy.
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Google looking to join the legions of SEO companies
It's been reported that Google is considering starting their own SEO company. This, if true, would be potentially massive news for the SEO industry.
Serena Shapero over at Newswire has stated that Google intend to get their SEO business off the ground by early May. Allegedly, Google's SEO team would consist of about 100 employees, clients could be charged up to $25,000 a month and Google will have a team of SEO robots* to deal with poor rankings.
Allegedly, Google will promise only ethical practices but how many giant corporations play nice? If Google does jump into the SEO pool they will have a monopoly of the SEO industry and it will be nowhere near as fun as the game.
Small SEO businesses will surely be put out of business and probably some medium sized ones too. Will the SEO companies just take their business to Yahoo and Bing? Unlikely, seeing as how popular Google is with the general public.
You can't handle the truth!
Okay, so enough of the scare mongering, is it likely to happen? SEO has been around for a while; if Google was going to do it surely it would have by now. Also, Google offers a lot of information to users so they can produce sites with high quality SEO, surely they wouldn't bother if they had ever considered becoming an .
Some highly regarded colleagues of mine (and one I'm indifferent to) offered their take on the report. "Where's the proof?" was retorted to the Newswire article. I've had a quick look on Google's blog and if they were going to start a business in early May wouldn't there be (at least) a bit of advertising? Another colleague said "this would just be like buying space in Adwords only you pay $25,000 for it instead of a few pounds per click".
So, will Google be starting an SEO company? Don't hold your breath (that's just good advice for most situations).
By the way, if you're interested, the state of Oregon is incorporating Google Apps into the education system.
*Quite probably not true.
Today, building websites is easy with 2.0 websites like Joomla and WordPress. With some clicks and a little knowledge about websites you can build yourself a very nice website about whatever you like. However, link building is yet another thing. Building links is the most important thing to do if you want visitors to your website.
There are quite some different ways to get links to your website. One important way is writing informative articles and post them on EzineArticles. This is a good example of link building using article directories. Link directories are another important source for getting back links to your site. However, these directories often ask for reciprocal linking before they will add your site to their database. But is asking for reciprocal linking a good thing to do?
Google gives different weights on links for many reasons. A one-way-link will be judged as more important than a reciprocal link in the eyes of Google. However, when you have submitted your link to a link directory, you want that to become a good link. The most important way for a link directory to get links is by using reciprocal linking. Because they receive mass incoming links, the effect will be much more than when you use one or two reciprocal links. In this way the link directory will get much 'authority' in the eyes of Google and this is also good for the websites who are linked in the link directory database.
Therefore it is a good thing when a link directory asks for reciprocal linking as this will also benefit your own website.
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Everyone likes to get a cheap resource or a long lasting investment. People, many times, in order to get quick and cheap solution for their requirement end up choosing an automated tool or a software over manual coding and get themselves in a trap.
These software promises to provide error free code and generate HTML file same as the corresponding PSD but fail to produce it practically and leave the person in a dilemma of whether to go for a service provider and start the project from scratch or invest more time and clean the mess.
There are many reasons which support the use of manual coding over the use of software or any tool which generates codes automatically. Below are some disadvantages of using auto plug-ins and software, which will provide you a clear picture why manual coding wins over automated coding:
1- Bugs: Codes generated from some tool or software do not promise to be error free. You will find some bugs in the codes which will affect either the functionality of the website or change the design from the real PSD.
2- Codes: Where clean code structure comes as a guarantee in manual coding automated coding does not promise to produce clean code structure. And most of the time you get sloppy codes in a very unprofessional manner.
3- W3C Validation: Every service provider producing manual coding promise to generate W3C validated code whereas automated codes have high probability of failing W3C validation.
4- Sacrificing quality: A quick turn around time is what one expects and gets from these tools but after sacrificing the quality of the codes. These tools very rarely produce quality codes and the customer has to get its design recoded. People who are looking just for quick turn around time and can take the risk of avoiding quality can surely bring these tools into their use.
5- Lose Customer: With the help of these tools, one can surely impress the customer with meeting the deadline but will ultimately loose them when the customer looks at the quality.
6- Fail Online Presence: If you are using an automated tool for converting your website design into HTML/XHTML then, you must be aware of the nature of codes. The codes produced by any software are not SEO friendly and hence, damage all your SEO efforts.
These are few of the reasons why one should avoid the use of automated tools and go for manual coding. If you are ready to risk your business just for the sale of saving few bucks then, you may use these tools as an option.