New Yorker’s rejoice for Ramen Setagaya may just be the best ramen shop in the entire USA. I’ve been to some great ramen shops in Hawaii and all over California but, Ramen Setagaya still gets my vote for best ramen in the nation– or at least until Hakata Ippudo (Kyoto, Japan) opens in the EV. The key to a good bowl of ramen always starts with the broth and man, this broth kicks some serious ass. The deep broth (assari-kei type) is a well-guarded secret mixture of chicken pork seafood and seaweed, and they use imported sea salt from Okinawa. Warning: this is a shio-ramen, which uses salt instead of shoyu so it’s pretty salty. The Cha-Syu (pork) is home made and you can definitely taste it.  I also highly recommend the menma (marinated bamboo shoot), which is marinated in the stock soup broth for over two days. Keep in mind that this is not a typical ramen joint, but a more regionalized ramen type dish from an area outside of Tokyo. Eat up!

Ramen Setagaya
141 1st ave
(212) 529-2740

Cha-syu men. mmmmlicscious

I’ve been informed that there’s a new (yes, another one) burger joint that just opened, which supposedly tastes “similar” to In-n-out in California. They reportedly use the same thin style patties, and also use fresh cut fries. This could be the closest thing to in-n-out that we’ll ever get so it may be worth checking out if you work in or around the area, although with all the lunch time madness that goes on in the city– maybe not. Let us know how it tastes if you do decide to check it out.

Five Guys
W 55th st btwn 5th & 6th.

I can’t tell you how much I adore my Blackberry Curve. I thought the novelty would wear off after a while, but no. I still sleep with it delicately placed on my pillow next to my head so that it’s the last thing I see before I go to bed and the and first thing I see when I wake up in the morning (just kidding - or not).

I really have no complaints at all about my phone or the AT&T service (former long time Verizon customer), but the one thing that really bothered me was the fact that the Curve was very limited in alarm functionality. My old phone allowed three alarms which I used for various things (I’m a snooze fiend, and I need reminders for everything). The Blackberry only allows one alarm to be set at one time, which really annoyed me.

I tried to live with it at first. I used my old phone just for the alarm and it was bearable. But then I ended up giving it to a friend who recently lost hers. Before long, this one alarm business was driving me crazy and I couldn’t take it anymore. I searched high and low (actually, just Googled “multiple alarms for my blackberry please God don’t fail me I am desperate“) and found Mobylo! MultiAlarm, a multiple alarm application that you can download. The cost was 30 dollars, but they did offer a 30 day trial period.

I thought, why not? I have nothing to lose. I went ahead and downloaded the trial version - and after two hours of fiddling around with it, ended up paying the 30 dollars in order to keep it. I loved it that much!

If you are a Blackberry user and have thought more than once that this world would be a much better place, a place worth living for if you had multiple alarms on your Blackberry, check out the links below.

Click here for review on Mobylo! MultiAlarm.

Click here to try it out.

Michael Jordan is the greatest player to ever lace up. Fact.
The Air Jordan’s jump started the shoe collection game. Fact.
Jordan x Loony Tunes commercials were the dopest. Fact.
Scottie Pippen is a douche. Fact.
The OG black/red Jordan VIII is dropping on 12/22. Fact.

While many AJ’s have been retroe’d in the past, these black/red playoff Jordan VIII have not been available to the public since the early 90’s when the G.O.A.T himself wore them during the playoffs. If you’re an avid Jordan collector, now is your chance to grab these as they will be releasing on 12/22. Pre-order them at finish line for $140 and make sure you buy 2 pairs; one to wear, and the other to keep in your closet collection forever. My collection includes the 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 20, spiz’ikes. How many of you collect J’s? I’m still looking for the VII hare’s if you have them.