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18 February 2016
Chuka Soba, Ramen, Tanakaya, Kagurazaka (中華そば 田中屋 神楽坂), Tokyo
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Sophisticated ramen stand in Kagurazaka
Ramen shop had opened in off-street Upper area of
Kagurazaka. The atmosphere of Upper Kagurazaka is very quiet and sophisticated
street through the Kagurazaka station of Tozai line. A lot of shops,
restaurants or Bars which were simple but high quality and sometimes
fastidiousness, as Sanlucar bar, Bar Kakinuma or Omoino ki, stood along this
streets.
The Kagirazaka style ramen
The ramen at this Tanaka-ya might have reflected the atmosphere of this place. Light yellow clear soup was made from pork bone soup stock base. The taste of salt was not strong but helped the taste of the soup stock. The soup may have been nicely cooked by the chef of this ramen stand. The noodle was little bit thick, straight. All toppings of the ramen were basic but well selected and nicely cooked. The texture, taste and flavour were very soft touch to our five senses.
The serving style was also lovely. Ramen bowl was placed on a plate.
The name, Chuka Soba (meaning Chinese noodle), will recall
us about the traditional soy sauce based, brown soup stock. The concept of
Chuka Soba had fitted to this quiet town, Kagurazaka.
6 January 2016
Soranoiro, Tokyo Ramen Street, Tokyo Station, Yaesu, Tokyo, Japan
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The Tokyo classical style of Ramen in Tokyo Ramen Street in
Tokyo station
The Tokyo Ramen Street is known as the very popular spot for
foreign and internal tourist in Tokyo. There were eight Ramen shops in small area
at Tokyo station complex. These eight shops were famous shops in Tokyo area. If
you come to Japan first time and do not know about the system of Ramen shop, I
recommend you to be one of the shop to entertain the common system in Japan.
This time I would like to describe about Soranoiro, Tokyo
classical style Ramen shop. The original shop is located in Kojimachi. This Tokyo Station branch was opened as the second shop. They will serve the Soy sauce based soup stock and fuzzy
noodle. The soup was clear brown soup as the consommé soup from French foods. The
Soy sauce, chicken based soup stock show the very soft but strong Umami in the
soup. The chicken was local breed chicken from Kumamoto prefecture, named as
Amakusa Daio (天草大王). The noodle has nice texture in itself. This style might
be popular in the young ladies group.
They also serve the vegetable noodle for vegetarian. They
produced non animal products Ramen.
27 December 2015
Tonkotsu Ramen Oreshiki Jun, Tokyo Ramen Street, Tokyo Station, Yaesu (とんこつラーメン俺式 純), Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo Ramen Street; famous spot where you will find your favourite style Ramen at Tokyo station
The Tokyo Ramen Street is very popular spot for foreign and
internal tourist in Tokyo. There were eight Ramen shops in small street in the
Grand building at Tokyo station complex. These eight shops were famous shops in
Tokyo area. If you come to Japan first time and do not know about the system of
Ramen shop, I recommend you to be one of the shop to entertain the common
system in Japan.
The entrance of Tokyo Ramen street
As my previous several articles, almost all ramen shop
around metropolis area in Tokyo has similar system as the ticketing machine,
seat at the counter, wait for your noodle and service of the noodle. This
simple flow will help you at the shops.
There were majorly four styles of Ramen: Tonkotsu (Pork Bone
soup stock), Miso (Miso soup stock), Shoyu (Soy sauce soup stock) and Shio (salt
base soup stock). I just lined as the thick strong taste to mild soft taste.
The Tonkotsu style is the most popular style in the world. Ippudo which has the
branch at New York city was very famous and some British Ramen geek had opened
Tonkotsu style Ramen shop in London.
The Tonkotsu style were popular in Kyushu area the west
south island. The soup stock was cooked with Bone and meet from pork. The
original style in Northern Kyushu was milky soup of the pork bone essence and the
taste is a little bit mild. The thin noodle will be rounded the soup. You can
choose hardness of the noodle as your favourite.
The Tonkotsu in Kanto area and the other place out of Kyushu
were very thick taste and strong flavour in the soup stock. The essence from
the ingredients strongly formed the character of the Ramen soup. The thickness
and strength of the soup and the noodle will show the different style of Tonkotsu
from Kyushu style.
Tonkotsu Ramen Oreshiki Jun
The Tonkotsu Ramen Oreshiki Jun will serve the Kanto style
Tonkotsu Ramen. The noodle of this shop was a little bit thicker than that of
Kyushu style. The technique of boiling the noodle may be different from the
Ramen stand in Kyushu. The people in Kyushu love the texture of the noodle
itself. Several staff will not pay attention for the boiling the noodle.
The soup stock was also different from the Kyushu style. The
powerful and thick soup taste will be enough for the lunch. The smell of
Tonkotsu is a little bit different from the Kyushu style.
2 July 2015
Re-visit, Ramen Yamaguchi, Waseda (らぁめん やまぐち 早稲田), Tokyo
One summer day, I have visited the Ramen noodle bar
Yamaguchi which was located at Waseda street again. It was the early afternoon
and a lot of students or business men enjoyed their lunch at the noodle bar. I
was able to identify the location of the Yamaguchi when I found the queue for
the shop.
I will describe about the ticket machine. On the top line, the Blue button showed for Tori Soba (鶏そば the soup was clear brown and chicken and soy source soup stock, the noodle was straight). The orange buttons are Oi gatsuo chuka Soba (追い鰹中華そば the soup was chicken soup stock with additional bonito the noodle was straight. The soup got the strong essence of the bonito). The light green button show the some Donn (some eggs or roast pork topped on the rice).
Each noodle ticket has some option: Ajitama (味玉
Additional boiled egg tasted with soy source), normal, Tokusei (特製 Additional roast pork and braised chicken) (from the left), the
set of Noodle and Roast pork Donn (the next line)
In the noodle bar, we can find around ten seats on the counter.
The week days, you will wait just 15 minute for your seat because the Japanese
customers have common sense as the ramen is the fast food. The Ramen is the very
modern fast food in Japan which was established in the early 20th
century. A lot of Noodle stands served in the city centre with the flag saying
Cino Soba (支那そば). After World
War II, Ramen noodle has been developed to the modern style.
After several minute for waiting, I was able to go into the
noodle bar and bought a ticket. It must be very difficult for the foreigner to
visit by themselves because all words are Japanese.
I will describe about the ticket machine. On the top line, the Blue button showed for Tori Soba (鶏そば the soup was clear brown and chicken and soy source soup stock, the noodle was straight). The orange buttons are Oi gatsuo chuka Soba (追い鰹中華そば the soup was chicken soup stock with additional bonito the noodle was straight. The soup got the strong essence of the bonito). The light green button show the some Donn (some eggs or roast pork topped on the rice).
The vending machine for ramen ticket
I ordered the set of Chicken noodle and Roast pork Donn. The
chicken noodle has soft and smooth clear brown soup and nicely chewing noodle.
The soup stock was lovely. The brown colour was come from the Maillard reaction in the soup stock.
The texture of the soup was very sticky coming from the soup stock taken so
long time.
The
Donn was also nice. The beautiful pink surface of the sliced roast pork was
very juicy and matched with the coarsely grained pepper. You will enjoy the Don
with the noodle soup.
The
tasted was nicely kept for six months. The traditional but modern fashionable
soup stock and the ramen noodle is one of my recommendation at Waseda area.
26 May 2015
Danbo, Nakasu, Fukuoka (暖暮，福岡), Japan
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The Top ranking in the Kyushu Ramen general election. -- the most heart touching ramen in Kyushu --
Fukuoka is
the city has passion and optimistic atmosphere. Fukuoka is located at the heart
of Southern – Eastern Asia where foreign culture was imported and introduced at
the first time in Japan from ancient. The people who live in Hakata are very
passionate and prefer the fast development in everything. There is one very
interesting story about a bowl of Udon noodle. The people in Hakata prefer
speedy development everything also to prepare the Udon noodle in Udon noodle
bar. The Noodle bar has already prepare the already boiled noodle in their
shops. The Nobita Udon noodle has already been elongated and very soft for
eating (“Nobita” is very important for Japanese people when eating something
noodle please read here). The most speedy order to eat ramen bar is Konaotoshi (粉落とし) which is just
go through the boiling water during washing out the powder on the noodle (it
will be very short time, and the noodle is very hard and may not be so tasty).
When the
bowl with soup and noodle was served, the first thing you should do is feeling
smell, colour and taste from the soup in the bowl. These three things are very
important things for the Ton-kotsu ramen to assess the soup stock. 
This Ramen
bar is located in Nakasu, the city centre of Fukuoka. They serve very classical
style of Tonkotsu Ramen (Pork bone soup stock ramen 豚骨ラーメン). The very
white and milky brown soup has traditional pork bone soup stock flavour and
taste. The noodle is straight and has great texture. This combination is very
important for the people from Kyusyu Island. The soup has the essence of nice
smells of the pork bone soup stock without spoiled with spend the days. The
noodle hardness is very nice marriage with the soup. And we can feel the freedom
in how to eat the ramen when we order a bowl of ramen in Fukuoka, because we
can choose from the variation of the hardness of the noodle, the spicy or chili
taste or topping. You can choose from the all staff except the thickness and
taste of the soup stock.
Kaedama Service, drop the boiled noodle into the soup bowl
Of course,
they are serving the Kaedama service. Please enjoy the soup and noodle till the
soup has gone from your bowl.
This restaurant chain is running a lot of bars around Fukuoka. They also have the shop in Vancouver or Viet num.
The web site
This restaurant chain is running a lot of bars around Fukuoka. They also have the shop in Vancouver or Viet num.
The web site
16 April 2015
Ramen Ippudo(ラーメン 一風堂), Waseda, Tokyo
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Ippudo is the chain flanchised Ramyen shop all over the world.
The All Nippon Airways(ANA) first and business class served this Ramyen as the on board meal on the longhaul flight to/from Europe and North America. Once I had flight with the ANA First, I was very satisfied with the Ramyen on the ground were serve on the 15 thousand metre. The condition of the Ramyen was perfect like on the ground. The noodle condition is very important for ramyen geek. Ten to fifteen minute has been taken after the ramyen bowl served, the noodle has change in the texture and taste to be very wet with soup. We, Japanese, call this condition as nobiru(伸びる). And we are very nervous about the noodle condition in Japan known as Soba, Udon and Ramyen.
In Tokyo, you can enjoy the Ramyen on the ground and by very reasonable price.
The All Nippon Airways(ANA) first and business class served this Ramyen as the on board meal on the longhaul flight to/from Europe and North America. Once I had flight with the ANA First, I was very satisfied with the Ramyen on the ground were serve on the 15 thousand metre. The condition of the Ramyen was perfect like on the ground. The noodle condition is very important for ramyen geek. Ten to fifteen minute has been taken after the ramyen bowl served, the noodle has change in the texture and taste to be very wet with soup. We, Japanese, call this condition as nobiru(伸びる). And we are very nervous about the noodle condition in Japan known as Soba, Udon and Ramyen.
In Tokyo, you can enjoy the Ramyen on the ground and by very reasonable price.
26 March 2015
Yoshimaru, Yaesuguchi, Tokyo station, Tokyo(由丸, 八重洲, 東京), Japan.
The Ramyen with pork born soup, Hakata style.
The Ramyen is one of the soul fast food for Japanese. If you know nothing about this food, you should not ask about this noodle. Each Japanese has each favourite style or noodle bar of this dish, combination among the soup, flavour, topping and noodle. The soup will be make from soy source, chicken, Katsuo, Niboshi(dried small fish), sea seed and pork etc. The noodle have vary with the thickness and texture.
I prefer the Hakata or Nagahama style. Normally, they will serve the noodle in pork bone soup, with Kikurage(Cloud ear, one kind of mushroom), Negi(flavour vegetable) and Charcheu(roast pork). The soup is the white and thick, The noodle is thin and straight.
Please order the food to the staff in the shop.
They also serve Japanese fast foods like the bistro style.
The Ramyen is one of the soul fast food for Japanese. If you know nothing about this food, you should not ask about this noodle. Each Japanese has each favourite style or noodle bar of this dish, combination among the soup, flavour, topping and noodle. The soup will be make from soy source, chicken, Katsuo, Niboshi(dried small fish), sea seed and pork etc. The noodle have vary with the thickness and texture.
I prefer the Hakata or Nagahama style. Normally, they will serve the noodle in pork bone soup, with Kikurage(Cloud ear, one kind of mushroom), Negi(flavour vegetable) and Charcheu(roast pork). The soup is the white and thick, The noodle is thin and straight.
Please order the food to the staff in the shop.
They also serve Japanese fast foods like the bistro style.
11 February 2015
Ramen Yamaguchi (らぁ麺やまぐち ), Waseda, Tokyo
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If you would like to taste the Tokyo style Ramyen, you will typicaly be served the soy source, chicken stock and Japanese Dashi stock with loast pork.
Ramyen Yamaguchi is one of my most favourite Ramyen bar in Tokyo. The interior is like the cocktail bar or cafe in New york down town and the staffs are very kind and all into the Ramyen.
The soup is clear brown like rich double consome and thick chicken flavour and taste. The noodle is straght and middle thin, produced by old Kyoto noodle foctory. The tecsture of noodle and intertwine between the noodle and soup is wonderful. The toppings, Memma and loast pork are also taken the steps and times, very tasty and beautiful tecsture.
They also serve the one of my favourite Donn, Charsheu donn(topped loast pork). The Donn is one of the Japanese fast food, something topped rice. There are a lot of variation: Tenn donn(Tempra topping), Gyuu donn(brazed beaf and onion topping), Oyako donn(Oyako is parents and children, chicken and egg)
Charsheu donn is served the medium rare of loast pork. The slice of port is pink and very juicy and rich with the pork gravy. The source is soy source base.
Please buy the ticket on the vending machine. Two style of Ramyen will be serve: Chicken stock(鶏 Tori) and chicken stock with added Katsuo dashi(追い鰹 Oigatsuo)
This shop is bar style and they serve only Ramyen and the Donn. On the lunch time, the client will make a que in front of the shop.
Listed on the Michelin guide Tokyo.
Ramyen Yamaguchi is one of my most favourite Ramyen bar in Tokyo. The interior is like the cocktail bar or cafe in New york down town and the staffs are very kind and all into the Ramyen.
The soup is clear brown like rich double consome and thick chicken flavour and taste. The noodle is straght and middle thin, produced by old Kyoto noodle foctory. The tecsture of noodle and intertwine between the noodle and soup is wonderful. The toppings, Memma and loast pork are also taken the steps and times, very tasty and beautiful tecsture.
They also serve the one of my favourite Donn, Charsheu donn(topped loast pork). The Donn is one of the Japanese fast food, something topped rice. There are a lot of variation: Tenn donn(Tempra topping), Gyuu donn(brazed beaf and onion topping), Oyako donn(Oyako is parents and children, chicken and egg)
Charsheu donn is served the medium rare of loast pork. The slice of port is pink and very juicy and rich with the pork gravy. The source is soy source base.
Please buy the ticket on the vending machine. Two style of Ramyen will be serve: Chicken stock(鶏 Tori) and chicken stock with added Katsuo dashi(追い鰹 Oigatsuo)
This shop is bar style and they serve only Ramyen and the Donn. On the lunch time, the client will make a que in front of the shop.
Listed on the Michelin guide Tokyo.
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