{"id":2317,"date":"2014-01-21T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2017-06-17T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T02:01:25","slug":"this-weeks-best-bite-musclemen-ramen-oiistar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/this-weeks-best-bite-musclemen-ramen-oiistar\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s Best Bite: Musclemen ramen, Oiistar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2321\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ramenoiistar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ramenoiistar.jpg\" alt=\"Musclemen ramen with mussels, onion, chili pepper, scallion, and bonito miso\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ramenoiistar.jpg 551w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ramenoiistar-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ramenoiistar-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musclemen ramen with mussels, onion, chili pepper, scallion, and bonito miso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s this week&#8217;s Best Bite<\/strong>: When a ramen craving struck me on a snowy afternoon, I popped over to Oiistar, a relatively new Wicker Park spot I&#8217;d been eyeing. Bypassing all the tempting varieties of bao, and even the avocado tempura \u2013 next time! \u2013 I zeroed in on a mussel-centric ramen. Besides at least a dozen plump mussels, the giant bowl also contained an umami-rich seafood broth with chewy noodles, two kinds of onion, and tons of garlic. Moderately spicy chiles also upped the soup&#8217;s warmth factor. Happily rotating between slurps of noodles, mussels, and broth, I settled in with a book and soaked up the sounds of the restaurant&#8217;s catchy R&amp;B playlist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/oiistar.com\/\" title=\"Oiistar\">Oiistar<\/a>, 1385 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[googlemaps width=300 height=300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why it&#8217;s this week&#8217;s Best Bite: When a ramen craving struck me on a snowy afternoon, I popped over to Oiistar, a relatively new Wicker Park spot I&#8217;d been eyeing. Bypassing all the tempting varieties of bao, and even the avocado tempura \u2013 next time! \u2013 I zeroed in on a mussel-centric ramen. Besides at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2179],"tags":[17,119,269,296,786,822,951,1214],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","category-chicago","tag-2014-best-bites","tag-best-bites","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-ramen","tag-mussels","tag-oiistar","tag-ramen","tag-wicker-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}