Nom, nom, nom, all the way home.

I have heartburn. What? It's that dull warm feeling in my upper belly right at the point where my ribs part ways.

And, why would I have such a thing?

It might be because I went to bed right after eating a big bowl of ramen.

The culprits:

Shredded pork rice bowl. Chopped up green onions, pickled ginger, sweet glazed pork on a bed of white rice.

Daikoku ramen: delicious broth made from long simmered pork bones, an egg, egg noodles, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, and green onions.

Did I mention that it had delicious, delicious pork in it? Melt in your mouth, delicious.

All this, I ate starting at about 11:30 pm. My parents and I were watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations in Shanghai. This was a bad choice considering that they showed many shots of amazing dumplings. So, we wanted dumplings. In my search on Yelp for a dumpling place aside from Din Tai Fung (any place closer to me, pls?), I found this ramen place: Daikokuya. 4 stars with over 1500 reviews, I thought it could be good. I wasn't very hungry even at 9 pm, given that we had a late lunch, so we decided to head over at about 10:15. With a 45 minute wait, we finally got a booth, even after they violated one of their "Golden Rules" (no seating additional members of a party if people have already been seated). Anyway, I got a combination of the Daikoku ramen and shredded pork bowl (bad choice simply because it was so much food). I did not finish the pork bowl (took it home and had it for lunch---YUM), but I did finish my ramen. And it was delicious. We got home a bit after midnight, and I was sleepy with such a full tummy, so I went to bed. And woke up with heartburn, which has been on and off for the whole day. Yay for chalky chewables to quell the burning fire within.

Today, we headed over to Gardena for more delicious noodles (yamakake udon: cold udon noodles with a mound of grated mountain potato on top) and Japanese food shopping. I found this:

PoleStar brand tonkatsu sauce. Now, if you ask me, the last thing I'd want to buy is stripper sauce.

It's late, and I'm going to try to go to sleep despite having taken a 2 hour nap at 5pm.