Oishinbo A La Carte. Ramen and Gyoza

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Not my fav, but kept reading the series submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 11, 2017, 8:35pm (read and reviewed in 2010) I don't generally record the manga (Japanese comics) that I read. (Though if you're interested, you must try _Hikaro No Go_!) But Scott found one that he thought I'd like.

Oishinbo is manga for foodies. The story line is about two newspapers whose food critics are trying to create the Ultimate/Supreme (Japanese) menus. The main critics are father and son, so there's tension there, too.

This volume is about Ramen (noodles) and Gyoza (potstickers). Being volume 3 but my first one to read, I had a hard time jumping into a storyline that was already established. I wanted to know who the characters were, but that wasn't this volume's goal.

Mostly I think I didn't enjoy this volume because (a) a year ago I was put, for the indefinite future, on a gluten-free diet. I can't eat anything discussed in this volume, and I love(d) it all. No offense to the book, but it's just hard to read about what I want but can't have. (B) Because of the gluten-free diet, I had to learn a lot about wheat, so much of the foodie knowledge wasn't actually new information for me. So this one wasn't a favorite. I did keep reading the series, though.