What ARE ramen noodles? If you Wikipedia it you'll find that they're processed, fried-dried carbs invented by a Japanese man back in the 50's. Apparantly they've reached a certain level of affordable yet haute cuisine in Japan since then and that's basically the experience Doodles tries to give you.
I'm Asian, specifically Korean-American (according to Wikipedia Koreans eat the most ramen noodles per capita in the world) but I grew up like most of you eating cheap ramen you can get for ten cents at Wal-Mart. I've never been to a fancy ramen shop. I would say you can take my Asian card but it's been revoked since I was in junior high and said eff off to the Korean Jesus freaks that dotted my suburban landscape.
But that's neither here nor there. At the end of the day, as Sarah Palin once famously said, you can't put lipstick on a pig. Essentially, that's what this is. I give it three stars though because the dudes working the counter are really nice and it's cheap. And I admit that the toppings are premo. It's still a pig but lipstick certainly doesn't hurt.