This isn’t a typical post. I’m a huge fan of noodle soup. I really like pho and of recent been trying a couple ramen places in San Francisco. The one thing that irritates the hell out of me is when I stop to eat my noodles with my chopsticks and the spoon drops into the bowl. I then have to dig it out with chopsticks and dry it off to get back to enjoying my delicious soup.

However, there are two restaurants that I have been to that have fixed my dilemma. Jasmine Garden (14th and Church) uses a spoon with a little hook on the end of the stem. So when you put  your spoon down to eat with your sticks, your spoon is secured at the top of the bowl.

A ramen spot in Japan town, Tanpopo (pictured in this article), goes one step further. The spoon has a notch right at the base of the stem/handle before it rounds out the spoon part. This allows you to rest the spoon on the lip of the bowl putting your spoon entirely out of the soup but still right there for you to grab when you want to get a sip of some warm liquid goodness.

I know, like I said above, this isn’t a normal post but I had to write about it. I love things like this, continuous improvement. Pretty sweet that people are still out there making things as small as a spoon better.

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