What's with the green onions?

Negi ramen. Green onion ramen. It's good, but I think some of these people went overboard. What do you think? Exhibit A, from http://cookpad.com/recipe/747320, a Japanese recipe site (see right).

Exhibit B, from 音。麺。酒 (Music, noodles, alcohol)

Actually, this looks pretty good. The blog author says, "When I opened my eyes... a brilliant green onion landscape... [or something like that]..." Um, I want to eat this. :D

This next one, not so much. It's from this weird ramen site. (Oh, I got that strawberry ramen pic translated once this site was shown to me. The line I missed was the prefecture where the ramen shop was. Apparently you may still be able to find this in Kobe... but on to the overindulgence of green onion.) This is starting to get bad...

When I did a Google image search for ネギラーメン (negi ramen), I got the worst of it. See for yourself. Is there ramen down there???

I have had good experiences with negi ramen in Japan. Here is a pic I took at 一蘭 (Ichiran), a very famous ramen shop in Shibuya, Tokyo. I was surprised to see so many onions on it, but I have absolutely no complaints! This is some awesome ramen!

When I make my own ramen and accidentally put to many green onions in, it usually becomes overpowering and not good. Maybe I should put them in earlier to let some of the strength wash into the soup. I haven't found the secret yet...

Awesome ramen pics

Here are some amazing ramen pics I picked off the web today...

This site ranks the best ramen shops in Japan, by prefecture: http://www.walkerplus.com/ramen/sp/

Check out the Tokyo pic chashu!!! Holy crap :O
It looks like Christmas ham.

Below is a picture of.... strawberry ramen....







I can't figure out what the second line says, but the rest of it claims that the red things are strawberries, the stuff around the outside is spinach, and the stuff in the middle is green onion. Apparently it's really sour! :P

This next site is sort of like yelp for ramen, but way cooler: http://ramendb.supleks.jp/. The slogan is "Search, eat, rank." I need to play around with this site more. It has a cool layout. Here's an example: http://ramendb.supleks.jp/shop/1237. I like the bar graph on the right showing how many people ranked this shop in each of ten ranges. If you click a bar, it will take you to the comments for that shop with those ranking ranges. Pictures are uploaded with the comment, not on a separate page. Man, this makes yelp look like total crap. I just wish you could enlarge the thumbnails. Some of those pics are teases. :(