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Kites, The Beach, and Ramen Burgers!

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The 17th Annual Japan America Kite Festival The Largest Japanese Kite Festival Outside of Japan! Seal Beach, California It was a beautiful day at the beach, lots of beautiful kites. Usually I'm told to "go fly a kite", but today I was here for... Keizo Shimamoto's Original Ramen Burger! 500 Ramen Burgers on today's menu Paul Lam (L) grilling the Angus beef patties and Keizo Shimamoto (R) flipping the ramen noodle buns. The Ramen Burger is made with fresh ramen noodles formed in a bun shape and lightly grilled. With the Angus beef patty, Keizo has his secret shoyu glaze, arugula, and scallions. Makes for a tasty combination. Ahh, one of the coveted Ramen Burgers! It's wrapped in a beautiful origami-style wrapper I could've pulled some strings, but I had my wristband and stood in line. OK, there were 10 people ahead of me... This event, when you paid for the Ramen Burger, a wr...