So surprise surprise, I'm a little behind schedule. It turns out I didn't have internet access for my last few days in New Zealand, so I wasn't able to update then. I'm back in San Francisco now though. I'm going to Vancouver briefly for the holidays, then back here to SF for a bit, then back to Boston. I should be able to update pretty much daily for the next couple of months. I have a few more Vancouver/SF posts to wrap up before I get started on my huge Sydney report.
This one is gonna be pretty quick. Over the summer I managed to make another visit to Kintaro Ramen (check out my first visit here). The place is still packin' em in from the looks of it. Geoff and I barely got a table before the place filled up completely. A pretty long line soon formed out the door. If we'd gotten there 10 minutes later, we probably would have had to wait another 45 minutes. I guess you could say the place hasn't changed much. 
bbq pork shoyu ramen - C$8.75 This time we both got ga-ga-greedy and ordered the ramen with extra bbq pork. And they're not joking around - you get 4 huge pieces instead of 1. Of course, we went with the fat pork and rich soup, and the result was a HUGE bowl of food. It was tough to finish it, but I managed. The bbq pork is really great here... absolutely tender and fatty. 4 pieces might be too much though. I think next time I'm gonna ask if they can give me 2 pieces of fat pork and 2 pieces of lean pork. 
gyoza - C$3.25 While the gyoza isn't particularly superb, it's perfectly decent. It's pretty much an automatic order when you're getting ramen anyway. It's about to get really busy around here. Stay tuned...