Luckily for the ramen-obsessed, it’s become increasingly easy to geek out about the soup. Hundreds of posts on Chowhound dissect the ramen in ramen-ya’s across California, industriously ranking them and comparing in minute detail the offerings therein. Blog owners across the globe document their owners’ fanatical addiction to the savory soup. Ed Wu helps support his ramen jones by selling lapel pins on his site shaped like bowls of either shoyu or tonkotsu ramen. Nate, the proprietor of the Waseda Ramen blog, details his ongoing effort to sample the wares of every one of the 80 ramen shops in an area of Tokyo he dubs the “ramen challenge zone.”