Tag Archives: ramen

屯ちん (Tonchin)

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061005 017.jpgとんこつラーメン＋みそ＋得入り。
Tonkotsu ramen with miso and assorted toppings. The soup is thick but very good – surprisingly it is not the usual unbearably salty pork bone soup in other ramen places, but actually drinkable. The chashu(pork) is one of the best I have had in Ikebukuro. Only that the ramen is also one of the softest and most overcooked…^^;; Later I checked out other people’s reviews and it seems like the noodle is always that soft, and I wasn’t just unlucky. This place is very popular so always a looooong queue. Though when I went, I got a seat immediately, and after I sat down, a queue suddenly formed outside the shop. ^^;;;;
屯ちん

大勝軒＠東池袋 (Higashi Ikebukuro Taishoken)

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060618 002.jpg中華そば、６３０円。I read scary stories about how this place is no.1 long-queue ramen shop in Japan, so even I have been curious but gosh no way I am going to wait for hours(literally) for a bowl of ramen. But I followed this person’s advice and went just before the shop closed at 3pm(this place doesn’t open for dinner) on a weekday, and we only waited for about 10 minutes. I had the basic ramen, my friend had the tsuke-men, where the soup and ramen are separated. Somehow the tsuke-men’s soup is sweeter. Both are nice. While I never expected myself to understand the hype about this place, my curiosity is satisfied.
大勝軒

麺屋武蔵　二天 (Menya Musashi Niten)

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060211 003.jpg辛巻らーめん＋豚天、９８０円。A big fried spring roll with meat and spicy miso paste inside, and I ordered an extra fried pork…^^;; The spring roll was very nice but somehow the paste was all squeezed into one corner, so you would be eating non-spicy meat most of the time and then in the last bite your mouth was full of spicy paste….I wonder if it was deliberate.